Mother Bloom moves between the intimate and the monumental, exploring the shifting boundaries between interior and exterior worlds—garden, domestic space, body, and psyche. Miranda Skoczek’s paintings emerge through a process of layering and erosion, where surfaces are repeatedly built up, sanded back, and reworked, forming rich palimpsests that hold traces of time and gesture.
These works feel less like traditional paintings and more like excavated surfaces—mined, disrupted, and reconstituted. Within this push and pull, forms resist resolution. Floral, bodily, and architectural elements merge in ways that are at times tender, at others strange and unruly, creating a quiet tension that runs throughout the exhibition.
Beauty is destabilised here. It shifts, misbehaves, and gives way to a productive chaos where control is loosened and the image emerges through friction and excess. Materials such as dried oil paint and sandpaper are embedded directly into the canvas, giving each work a sculptural presence. Residue and studio remnants become part of the composition, with the paintings acting as objects that carry the evidence of their own making.
Recurring vessel forms—referencing terracotta shapes associated with Pablo Picasso—appear at human scale, standing in for the body as both container and site of transformation. Across the exhibition, flowers and bodies collapse into one another, suggesting growth, containment, and overflow.
Spanning large-scale immersive works and smaller, more intimate pieces, Mother Bloom invites a shifting physical and emotional relationship with the viewer. The exhibition unfolds as a space where reverence and dissonance coexist—fecund, feral, and always in a state of becoming.
