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23/05/2026

Matthew Newkirk: Distorted Image comes to Fish Lane Town Square. A fantastic afternoon conversation with the artist

Exhibition open Wednesday to Saturday until May 31
Artworks available to acquire through the gallery 🔗

19/05/2026

Now showing at PARKER Contemporary, Matthew Newkirk: Distorted Image.

Through reflective aluminium signage, punctures, bends and ruptured surfaces, Newkirk examines the power of visual language and the systems that shape how we read images, authority and public communication.

Join us this Saturday 23 May for an informal artist talk and meet the artist in Fish Lane Town Square from 4–5pm.

Free and all welcome.

Distorted Image continues until 31 May, with the viewing room also now available on Artsy

For artwork enquiries, contact the gallery.
ARTIST TALK - Matthew Newkirk in Conversation

15/05/2026

OPENING TONIGHT

Matthew Newkirk: Distorted Image
6pm–8pm at PARKER Contemporary

Distorted Image examines how images, signage and public communication shape contemporary experience. Working with the visual language of Brisbane street signage, Newkirk disrupts the passive act of looking through distortion, rupture and physical transformation.

Join us tonight to experience the exhibition, meet the artist, and connect with the PARKER Contemporary community.

All welcome.

PARKER Contemporary
38 Hope Street, South Brisbane
Fish Lane Arts Precinct

13/05/2026

Acquisition Announcement

We are delighted to share that the State Library of Queensland has acquired 'I will become all that I need to become' by Dr Tim Mosely for its collection.

This artist book considers the relationship between humanity and wilderness through touch and sight (the haptic and the optic). Developed in response to sites including Carnarvon Gorge, Girraween and Rainbow Beach, the work carries a direct material relationship to the Queensland landscapes that informed it.

Formed through contact with fragments from these environments, the book extends a tactile encounter with wilderness to the reader, reflecting the artist’s ongoing interest in how surface, pressure, material and touch can carry meaning.

Acquired by State Library of Queensland, 2026.

Tim Mosely
I will become all that I need to become, 2023
The third from the 'Representation by Touch' series of artist books
Codex, single segment in felt covers, pulp printing, relief printing and letterpress on handmade paper
45 x 15 x 5 cm
Variable edition of 3 artist books, with one artist’s proof book

Collections: Books On Books Collection - The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, United Kingdom and the State Library of Queensland, Australia.

11/05/2026

OPENING FRIDAY NIGHT
Matthew Newkirk: Distorted Image
May 15 | 6pm - 8pm

PARKER Contemporary presents Distorted Image, a new body of work by Matthew Newkirk examining how images, signage and public communication shape contemporary experience.

Working with the visual language of street signage, the exhibition draws attention to the systems and structures we navigate daily, often without conscious notice. Through distortion, rupture and interruption, the works disrupt the passive act of looking.

Across the exhibition, aluminium surfaces bend, puncture and fracture under force. In a number of works, ballistic impact compresses reflective signage into materially altered objects, where pressure and rupture remain embedded within the surface itself. Shifted from the street into the white-walled gallery space, the signs by Newkirk move beyond pure function, inviting reflection on how context shapes the way images and objects are encountered and understood.

All Welcome | RSVP help us prepare, but walk-ins are warmly welcome

PARKER Contemporary
38 Hope Street, South Brisbane
Exhibition on view until May 31

1. Matthew Newkirk, Distorted Image, 2026, Aluminium and 3M vinyl, 55 X 35cm. Edition of 3.
2. Matthew Newkirk, featured in Art Collector Magazine
3. Matthew Newkirk, Modern Day Mantra, 2026, Aluminium and 3M vinyl, 54.5 X 22.5cm. Edition of 5.

08/05/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Matthew Hurdle

Shifting between ancient Christian themes, Modernist art history, and a contemporary desire to reconnect with the physical art object, Hurdle uses labour-intensive papermaking techniques to examine guilt, humility, and renewal.

Through the transformation of ash-stained sackcloth into fibrous paper, the works unfold slowly, carrying traces of process, touch, and time. Drawing on the transformative possibilities of papermaking, the works invite a contemplative engagement with surface, material, and labour.

These quiet abstractions encourage viewers to slow down and experience the subtle nuances embedded within the work itself.

Highlights include:
• 2025 Should I remember you, PARKER Contemporary, Brisbane
• 2025 Sydney Contemporary, Sydney
• 2025 Aotearoa Art Fair, Auckland
• Finalist, 2026 Mandorla Art Award
• Shortlisted, 2021 Iain Turnbull Award

Today marks the opening of the Mandorla Art Award exhibition in Perth, where Hurdle’s finalist work 'Sackcloth and Ashes #15' is currently on view.

1. Matthew Hurdle. Photo credit, Robyn Wood.
2. Sackcloth and Ashes #15. Photo credit, PARKER Contemporary.
3. Should I remember you... #3. Photo credit, Carl Warner.
4. Sackcloth and Ashes #17. Photo credit, PARKER Contemporary.
5. Matthew Hurdle. Photo credit, Robyn Wood.

07/05/2026

One week since Aotearoa Art Fair.

A focused presentation of works by Tim Mosely, Claudia Husband, Alethea Richter, Daniel Clifford and Melissa J Harvey, brought together through print, paper, process and material-led practice.

Thank you to everyone who visited the booth, asked questions, and spent time with the works.

A small number of works remain available following the fair. The Artsy Viewing Room remains open until 13 May, with installation images and available works from the presentation.

View via the link in bio, or contact the gallery to enquire.
Photo credit:

05/05/2026

That’s a wrap on Aotearoa Art Fair 2026.

Five artists, four days, and hundreds of conversations.

A focused presentation of works by Daniel Clifford, Claudia Husband, Melissa J Harvey, Tim Mosely and Alethea Richter, shared with collectors, curators, advisors and new audiences in Aotearoa.

From install through to the final day on the booth, it was very much a one-woman show, but never without support. Thank you to the fair crew and fellow gallerists who kept checking in, offered a hand, shared a moment in the aisle, and made a very big week feel a little lighter.

Watching people stop mid-step in front of these practices is the reason for doing it.

With thanks to Fair Director Sue Waymouth and the Aotearoa Art Fair team for such a fun week in NZ, and to fair partners Aalto Paint and Studio Italia for their collaboration with wall colour and furniture, which helped shape and support the presentation.

The fair community this year was something special. The conversations between sessions, the shared energy of install day, the familiar faces who came to say hi, and the generous support from fellow galleries made the week what it was.

Until next time, NZ 🇳🇿

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04/05/2026

Collectors have been drawn to Melissa J Harvey’s Guardians, featured in Art Collector Magazine.

“Harvey’s ability to charge humble, discarded materials with psychological and emotional resonance places her among the most inventive sculptors working in Australia today”. Robert Burratti on Melissa J Harvey, “The Guardians”, 2025 in If I could have..., Art Collector, Issue #116

Only a small number of these unique works remain following their presentation at the Aotearoa Art Fair.

Available through PARKER Contemporary.

01/05/2026

Spotted in the latest Art Collector Magazine — Tim Mosely.

“The hatched and gouged marks that define every surface — the slow, manual indexing of hand against material — give Big Bend a haptic quality that reproductions can only suggest. Standing before it, you feel the weight of the ancient rock”.
Robert Burratti on Tim Mosely, “Big Bend”, 2025 in 'If I could have...' Art Collector, Issue #116 .

Big Bend, currently on view and available through PARKER Contemporary at the Aotearoa Art Fair, Auckland. Find the gallery at Booth 57.

Tim Mosely
Big Bend, 2025
Five colour hand cut reductive linocut relief print on hand made Awagami Kozo Paper,
Image: 32 x 47.5 cm Paper: 49.5 x 65 cm
Edition of 7 + 2 AP

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