Re-PLAY
About the exhibition
Re-PLAY is a dynamic participatory exhibition reigniting the power of play as a catalyst for creativity, connection and joy. Developed in collaboration with artist Maxxi Minaxi May, Re-PLAY invites you to follow curiosity, experiment with ideas and trust impulsive creativity. Through the arts of bricolage and assemblage Re-PLAY seeks to examine consumerism, mass consumption and throwaway culture by rekindling aesthetics. This exhibition advocates for a shift in how society values possessions and encourages dialogue about the significant role of imagination.
Re-PLAY offers an opportunity to reflect and reconsider the melange of stuff we have forgotten, rejected or ignored. In a world of rules, structures, curriculum, schedules and screens Re-PLAY activates delight, imagination and laughter as joyful antidotes.
Re-PLAY Quiet Hour
3pm-4pm daily | suitable for all ages
Quiet Hour is for slow play and soft listening, offering a quiet space for whispering together and enjoying a lower sensory environment. Notice colours, textures, sounds and sensations. Listen to your heartbeat. Feel your breath rising and falling. Rest.
Re-PLAY installation view, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2025. Artworks – Maxxi May Sticky Dots 2025. Stickers and cartridge paper. Maxxi May Reduce Speed 2025. Street signs, nitro-alkyd paint. Artworks courtesy of the Artist. © Maxxi Minaxi May. Photo: Rift Photography.
Re-PLAY installation view, The Art Gallery of Western Australia. 2025. Artwork – Maxxi May Showcase 2025. Upcycled objects. Artwork courtesy of the Artist. © Maxxi Minaxi May. Photo: Rift Photography.
My art is a remix. By layering and juxtaposing disparate elements, I am reflecting our multi-dimensional environments of influences, overwhelm and hybridity. I critique and examine the wavering tensions between minimalism and maximalism through repetition, harmony and playfulness. Objects can be beautified by utilising familiar techniques in considered and contemporary ways. I hope my work invites conversation about how ordinary, discarded materials can become meaningful and spectacular through experiments with colour, pattern and composition.
Maxxi Minaxi May
Artist
Maxxi Minaxi May. Photo: Rift Photography.
Maxxi Minaxi May is an interdisciplinary artist, working primarily with sculpture, printmaking and installation. She uses a wide range of approaches and dialogues to explore the interrelationships between the industrial world and the everyday and popular. She is interested in representation and consumption – the remixing of consumer desire and response, within hybridised cultural moments. Maxxi seeks to repurpose the already designed, to challenge their inherent meaning and making them into art that will be considered and treasured as abstract 2D & 3D artworks, rather than throwaways. She has a BA, and PhD in art, and has been a practicing artist for over 30 years. She incorporates themes of the commonplace, identity and media with an inherent use and interest in hybridity – layering, remixing and juxtaposition. Exhibiting regularly, she is in significant collections and has participated in residencies interstate and overseas.
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Re-PLAY is supported by Healthway promoting social emotional wellbeing and the arts. Art connects us to ourselves, each other and our communities, helping to create a healthy Western Australia.
