When We Dream is a landscape of visions. Pockets of narrative emerge within the installation, while the unknown fizzes and pops beneath the shiny and playful surfaces. In each diorama Parekowhai merges fictional realities with historical context, exploring moments that slip between the real and unreal.
Exhibition Dates: 10 September – 13 October 2018
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bronze
164 pieces: 77.5 x 11 x 2cm each; 2 frames: 360 x 90 x 5cm. Installation dimensions variable

painted aluminium
253 x 26.5 x 5cm (black frame); 253 x 197 x 5cm (red frame); 253 x 101 x 5cm (green frame); 253 x 101 x 5cm (blue frame); 253 x 197 x 5cm (yellow frame). Installation dimensions variable

fibreglass, automotive paint
two parts: 140 x 48 x 45 cm; 150 x 48 x 40 cm
Edition of 3

fibreglass, automotive paint
two parts: 140 x 48 x 45 cm; 150 x 48 x 40 cm
Edition of 3

hand-finished bronze, patina
Tree size: 120 x 45 x 45cm, Pallet size: 15 x 118 x 88cm

fluorescent bulb, Italian light fitting and screen printed vinyl
130 x 22 x 8 cm
Edition of 7
Michael Parekowhai When We Dream
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2018
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2016
Michael Parekowhai The Promised Land
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery Of Modern Art, 2015
Michael Parekowhai The World Turns
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery Of Modern Art, 2011
Group Show, True Story
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2010-11
Michael Parekowhai Seldom is Herd
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2009
Group Show, Lucky Town
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2008-09
Michael Parekowhai Eerst me fiets (First my bicycle)
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2006
Michael Parekowhai The Big O.E.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, 2006
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005
Michael Parekowhai Rainbow Servant Dreaming
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005
Michael Parekowhai Jim McMurtry
Gwangju Biennale, Korea, 2005
Michael Parekowhai Kapa Haka
Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, 2003