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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

2023- ongoing / Distraction in Action / A collaborative research project with Moyra Derby (Leeds School of Art) Jenny Dunseath (Bath Spa School of Art and Design) Claire Undy (UAL) and Kate Squires (Westminster School of Art). This project has taken the form of a conference session at How Artists Teach at Glasgow School of Art in 2023 and a workshop at Have Some Imagination at the Baltic. A website holding project information designed by Claire Undy can be found HERE.

2025 / Taking A Line For A Walk / A project with the students of Ramsgate Arts Primary School

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

**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:

(Advance HE Fellow)

Current: Associate Lecturer, Print, Royal College of Art

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.

Journals, book contributions & conferences:

2025 / Have Some Imagination 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