Contact:

email: floraparrott@hotmail.com

instagram: @floraparrott

**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.

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

September 2016 / +Performance / Oi Futuro, Brazil

April 2016 / When I have finished in Here I will Speed back up again / with Gusty Ferro as part of 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

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 / Art Council England 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 & RESEARCH ROLES:

(Advance HE Fellow)

Current: Associate Lecturer, Print, Royal College of Art

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

2020- 2024 Trustee, Open School East

2017- 2024 Associate Lecturer in Fine Art BA, UCA

April - July 2021 - Revalidation consultancy, Fine Art, Birmingham City University

2013 –2016 Senior Lecturer. Fine Art Foundation. Kingston University.

2009 – 2015 Lecturer. BA and MA Fine Art. Norwich School of Art.

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 Foundation / The Michaelis Art School, University of Cape Town

Residencies:

June 2016 / Imagination Dead Imagine, as part of Law’s Imagination curated by Jack Tan / Arebyte Gallery

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

Journals, book contributions & conferences:

2025 / Have Some Imagination Distraction in Action workshop with Moyra Derby, Kate Squires, Claire Undy and Jenny Dunseath

2025 / Undercurrents Journal article ‘Thinking with the more-than-human subsurfaces’ to be published in 2025

2024 / Royal Geographic Society Conference , contribution to a conference, title of talk: ‘Pockets of Resistance’

2024 / Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: interdisciplinary creative art practice and nature connections Baker C, Morris N, Tsirikos A, Fotakopoulou O, Parrott F. Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: interdisciplinary creative art practice and nature connections. Med Humanit.

2023 How Artists Teach, Glasgow School of Art , convened a session with Moyra Derby: Distracted Pedagogies

2023 / Nottingham Contemporary / Caves Dwellings and Vibrations symposium, talk with Frank Pearsons title: The Shape of Emptiness

2023 / American Association of Geographers Conference, convened a session with Una Hamilton Helle ‘Thinking with the more-than-human subsurfaces’

2022 / American Association of Geographers Conference, contribution to a conference, title of talk: Darkness Retreat

2021 / Conversations in Caves. Parrott, F. & Hawkins, H., Contribution to journal Jun 2021, In: Leonardo. 54, 3, p. 350-354 5 p.

2021 / Subterranean Space: The Interplanetary Mine and a Politics of Life Hawkins, H. & Parrott, F., Contribution to journal24 May 2021, In: Society and Space Forums

2020 / Six Voids Hawkins, H. & Parrott, F., 2020, Book Chapter . A Place More Void . Kingsbury, P. & Secor, A. (eds.). University of Nebraska

2019 / Reading landscape: interdisciplinary approaches to understanding place Contribution to journal Smith, M. J., Parrott, F., Monkman, A., O’Connor, J. & Rousham, L., 19 Mar 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Maps. p. 1-9

2018 / Expand and Contract, interdisciplinary symposium at Chisenhale Dance Studio co-organised with Harriet Hawkins, Royal Holloway University London

2018 / ‘A Distribution of Forces’ A performative talk with Kelly Large at East Side Project Space, Birmingham

2017 / Basecamp symposium and workshop at V22, London with artist Kelly Large

2016 / These Pits and Abysses an interdisciplinary symposium organised with the Geography Department at Royal Holloway University London