Milarky's, a New Plymouth based street art legend, recent focus is on Nomadism and what he aligns as 'the Return to Nomadity' of our species due to the misled ability to care for the Earth. Nomadism being a response to the environment, an adaption through a generationally founded ability to attune to nature, as opposed to our societies current static mind set to tune the land to our desired ways for benefit based on self prescribed time frames of economy and born hierarchy.
Milarky's work, marked by the stark black and white touches, locates itself more in space and time. But not a time and space we know. The individual figures, looking like alter-ego’s of the artist himself, sometimes remind me of activistic astronauts forever floating in loneliness. It is as if his works juggle between an utopian and dystopian society evoking the atmosphere of having survied a mass wave of extinction. There is definitely a nod to our consumerist society and upcoming menace of a changing climate both literally as politically. A general thread is that his figures are always on the move, running from what’s happening both internally as externally, trying to escape the ever-increasing societal grip.
Recently Milarky also founded a gallery, Resident gallery, where he undertakes solo shows of his own work while occassionaly curating group shows with street art talents from all over New Zealand