Contact:
email: floraparrott@hotmail.com
instagram: @floraparrott
For journal and conference contributions please see Royal Holloway profile page HERE
Current Projects:
2020 - 2025 / Research Fellow, at Royal Holloway University, London on project, THINK DEEP: Novel Creative Approaches to the Underground, led by Professor Harriet Hawkins, funded through the European Research Council’s Horizon 2020 Consolidator Grant Scheme
2024 / One Waterfall Floods Another / Collaboration with Frank Pearson
2024 / Swimming Lessons / Collaboration with Lindiwe Matshikiza
Education:
2016 - 2021 / TECHNE PhD / RHUL Geography
2007-9 / MA Fine Art Printmaking / The Royal College of Art
2001-4 / BA Hons Fine Art Printmaking /Glasgow School of Art
2000 / Fine Art / The Michaelis Art School, University of Cape Town
Residencies:
2016 / Leverhulme Artist in Residence in the Geography Department / Royal Holloway University
2016 / The Royal Geographical Society / 'Swallet' Project
March 2015 / Atelier Fidalga / São Paulo, Brazil
April 2012 / The Cosmos / Wysing Arts Centre
October – November 2010 / Dipole, Ryedale Folk Museum
June – July 2008 / Merz Barn, Littoral / Ambleside
Selected Exhibitions and Events (solo projects*):
2022- 2023 / Hollow Earth / Nottingham Contemporary, Glucksman Cork & RAMM Exeter / Hayward Touring
July 2022 / Skelf / Online Commission, Collaboration with Kelly Large
November 2021 / Rates of Decay / Quench Gallery *
2021 / Undead Matter / Contribution to an online platform convened by Sophie Williamson
2021/ Darkness Retreat / Digital Commission by Legion Projects / Funded by Arts Council England
June - September 2021 / Contribution to Sonia Boyce’s ‘In The Castle of My Skin’, work made in collaboration with Lindiwe Matshikiza / Middlesbrough Institute of Art
November 2019 – July 2020 / Contribution to Sonia Boyce’s ‘In The Castle of My Skin’, work made in collaboration with Lindiwe Matshikiza / Eastside Projects, Birmingham
October 2019 / ‘These Are the Days My Friends’, Curated by Hannah Lees at Kupfer Projects
March 2019 / ‘I’m In The Bath On All Fours’ work developed with Lindiwe Matshikiza, Well Projects Margate.
November 2018 / ‘A Distribution of Forces’ A performative talk with Kelly Large at East Side Project Space, Birmingham
September 2018 / ‘Acts of Devotion’ A talk about the Shell Grotto in Margate, commissioned by Contemporary Arts Society*
July 2018 / ‘Expand and Contract’ Chisenhale Dance Space. Co-organiser of an interdisciplinary conference
March 2018 / ‘Library of Love’ CAC, Cincinnati / Work commissioned by Sandra Cintro
September 2017- March 2018 / ‘We Came Here to Conquer’ / A group show at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
December 2016 / These Pits & Abysses / An interdisciplinary at the CLF Theatre, funded by RHUL and Leverhulme*
September 2016 / +Performance / Oi Futuro, Brazil
August 2016 / Empathy Flows / Performance event at Zabludowic Collection, London with Gustavo Ferro
June 2016 / Imagination Dead Imagine, as part of Law’s Imagination curated by Jack Tan / Arebyte Gallery
April 2016 / When I have finished in Here I will Speed back up again / Camden Sentido
April 2015 / Posição Fixa / Museo Geosciencia, USP, Brazil*
April 2015 / Posição Fixa / Projeto Fidalga, Brazil*
February 2015 / Thin Place / Oriel Myrddin, Wales
April 2014 / Fixed Position/ Tintype London*
March 2014 / The Negligent Eye / The Bluecoat Liverpool
March 2013 / Align and Separate / SAVORR, Norwich*
February 2013 / Relatively Absolute / Wysing Arts Centre
May 2012 / The Cosmos / Wysing Arts Centre
September 2011 / Circuit: Five Deductions / Tintype London*
April- June 2011 / Trapezius / The Herbert Gallery
March 2011 / Dipole / Ryedale Folk Museum*
April 2010 / Irregular Wasps / Tintype, Redchurch St. London
March 2009 / Bandstand / Café Gallery, Southwark Park
Awards & Funding:
2021 / Art Council England / Project Grant for ‘Darkness Retreat’ with Legion Projects
2020 / Henry Moore Institute / Covid Response Award
2017 / TECHNE Scholarship / RHUL
2016 / Leverhulme Artist in Residence, RHUL
2016 / ACE Grant / Swallet, Royal Geographical Society Residency
2013 /Artist International Development Fund/ British Council/Arts Council /Nara Roesler Gallery,Sao Paulo
2011 / Arts Council and Leverhulme Funded Exhibitions. Ryedale Folk Museum
2006 / Research Grant / Arts Council England
Selected Teaching & Workshops:
(Advance HE Associate Fellow)
Current: Associate Lecturer, Print, Royal College of Art
Current: Trustee, Open School East
Current: Associate Lecturer in Fine Art BA, UCA
April - July 2021 - Revalidation consultancy, Fine Art, Birmingham City University
2013 –2016 Lecturer. Fine Art Foundation. Kingston University.
2009 – 2015 Lecturer. BA and MA Fine Art. Norwich School of Art.
Press:
Hearing From Artists, Interview with Lindiwe Matshikiza, Flora Parrott and Olivia Heron / MIMAuseful
I’m In The Bath On All Fours / Eastside Projects / Frieze Magazine
Lost In Space / Dulwich Picture Gallery Magazine
Fixed Position / This is Tomorrow
Circuit: Five Deductions / Time Out
Irregular Wasps / Time Out