rewilder

There is joy in the room – and in Miranda Parkes' new exhibition rewilder, an ambition to explore play and pleasure as protest against, or resistance to current orthodoxies. Palette-wise, rewilder continues Parkes' recent combination of fluoros with metallics. But there are hues of mustard and brown in livestreamer, for example, that compliment sweeter yellows, blues and pinks. Importantly, in livestreamer colour is brushed thinly with attention to edge, and the reveal of the canvas support – which is very different from the thick impastos and plummy reds and violets in board paintings like performer and shadow-worker. The small paintings battle picker and gone burger, painted over found packaging, are also heavily loaded with paint. Parkes has painted directly onto industrial pallets in the past. One constant are the crumple paintings, painted flat then compressed onto stretchers when almost dry. These pulse with energy and life. Copper, silver and gold metallics shimmer in shallow depths.