Andy Parker

Ropewalkers
Simon Whetham / Andy Parker / Jo Ball

15 October – 5 November 2016
Thurs – Sat 11–5 (or by appointment)
LAUNCH PARTY Friday 14 October 2016 6-9pm

Gallery exhibition at OSR Project Space with off-site commission at the site of Dawes Twineworks. Text to accompany my contribution is available here.

OSR Project Space, Church Street, West Coker, Somerset BA22 9BD
Dawe’s Twineworks, 94a High Street, West Coker, Somerset BA22 9AU

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Ropewalkers
January 2016

I've been awarded a commission to produce work for the Ropewalkers project hosted at Dawes Twineworks in the village of West Coker. Renowned as the home of 'Coker Sail Cloth' (prized by Mariners) Dawes has most of its victorian twine making equipment and boasts links with figures such as Daniel Defoe and William Dampier.

OSR Projects and Dawes Twineworks
Somerset, UK

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Turku Biennial 2015
June 10 - August 30, 2015

The seventh international Turku Biennial opens the doors of the Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum to 18 contemporary artists or artist groups from Finland and elsewhere in Europe. Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the museum, the Turku Biennial will be a chain of multiple surprises with the theme of The Unexpected Guest. Currently the invited artists are preparing new works to be shown for the first time in the exhibition that opens on 9 June.

Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova
Museum of Contemporary Art
Turku, Finland

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Go Mango
December 11 - 21, 2014

Salt+Powell x Caustic Coastal are pleased to present ‘Go Mango’, a two-part project, initiated to investigate different models and modes of curatorial presentations.

Matt Moser- Clark, Neil Haas, Holly Hendry, Sophie Jung ,Emily McCarten , Laurence Owen, Andy Parker, Beth Shapeero, Emily Tilzey

Caustic Coastal
Rogue Project Space
66-72 Chapeltown Street
Manchester, M1 2WH

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Artist's Postcards
August 23 - November 9, 2014

A chance to preview the remarkable way artists use the postcard as a medium in its own right, before this exquisite collection’s donation to the British Museum Print and Drawing Department in 2018.

http://www.theatkinson.co.uk/events/wish-you-were-here/

THE ATKINSON
Lord Street
Southport PR8 1DB

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Circus ™
Private View: January 17, 6 - 9.

A group show with 28 artists working in a
variation of media film / painting / photography /
sculpture / drawing is presented circling the theme of
the Circus ‘Theatrum Mundi’.

Alex Carmichael, Andy Parker, Astrid Wagner, Cathie Pilkington, Chloe Hughes, Coco Crampton, David Dipré, Henri Gaudier Brzeska, Hanna Mattes, Howard Dyke, Joe Frazer, Joel Tomlin, John Bunker, Julia Peirone, Magdalena Drwiega, Michael But he, Mimei Thompson, Morten Skrøder Lund, Natasha Kahn, Paul Housley, Paul Kindersley, Peter Blake, Petr Davydtchenko, Phil Root, R Goldman, Richard Smith, Simon Mullan, Tomek Baran

Belmacz
45 Davies Street
London W1K 4LX

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The Postcard is a Public Work of Art
January 23 - 1 March, 2014

Postcards by sixty artists based in Britain, the majority newly made for this exhibition. Curated and catalogued by Jeremy Cooper.

Åbäke, David Bellingham, John Bevis, George Blair, David Blamey, James Brooks, Lewis Chaplin, Ruth Claxton, Julie Cockburn, Patrick Coyle, Simon Cutts, Leo Davey, Tim Davies, Arnaud Desjardin, Karen Di Franco, Daniel Eatock, Ruth Ewan and Dan Griffiths, Jacky Fleming, Ryan Gander, Cristina Garrido, Paul Greenleaf, Mark Harfield, Gabriel Hartley, Juliet Haysom, Tony Hayward, Tim Head, Susan Hiller, Georgie Hopton, Dean Hughes, Juneau Projects, Peter Kennard and Cat Phillips, Alan Kitching, Sharon Kivland, Helen Knight, Michael Leigh, Rebecca Loweth, Sara MacKillop, Elizabeth Magill, Imi Maufe, Hansjörg Mayer, Elizabeth McAlpine, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Jonathan Monk, Paul Morton, Andy Parker, Mark Pawson, Georgina Potier, Ruth Proctor, Frances Richardson, Robert Richardson, Molly Rooke, Colin Sackett, Sarah Staton, Holly Stevenson, Peter Sylveire, Erica Van Horn, Nick Wadley, Stuart Whipps, Anwyl Cooper-Willis, Duncan Wooldridge

X Marks the Bøkship
210 / Unit 3 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9NQ

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Solo Exhibition:

Regrating, Forestalling, Engrossing
October 3 - November 13, 2013

La Permanence
7 rue Abbé Girard
63000 Clermont-Ferrand
France

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http://blipblipblip.co.uk/current.html
Thursday 25 July– Saturday 3 August, 12:00 – 17:00

Rachel Adams, Simon Bedwell, Lucy Clout, William Darrel, Alex Farrar, Catherine Jones, Leeds Weirdo Club, Philip Nicol, Andy Parker, Paul Rooney, Josh Whitaker. Curated by C.B.S
A range of live feeds via webcam from artists' studios/workspaces will be projected on to the walls of the gallery whilst also being made available on the blip blip blip website at http://blipblipblip.co.uk/current.html

blip blip blip
East Street Arts
Patrick Studios
St. Mary's Lane
Leeds LS9 7EH

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Artist's Event:

Unpacking My Collection
Saturday 21st July, 6.30pm

Andy Parker will be sharing an exploration of boxes of old bottles he collected as a child, but which he has not seen since his parents packed them away many years ago. Whilst opening the boxes for the first time, he will be discussing how bottles were made, why he collected them, and ultimately discovering if they have any relevance to him, or us, now.

http://www.norwichoutpost.org/

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Film Screening:

Lattitude Festival
The Big Screen and Film Gallery
FLOOD
curated by Louise Colbourne
22:00 Friday 19th July, 2013

http://bigscreen-filmgallery.tumblr.com/post/54361741376/latitude-festival-2013-19th-21st-july

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Solo Exhibition:

Andy Parker
PAN-PAN
OUTPOST, Norwich
Opening on Monday 1st July 2013
2nd - 21st July 2013, 12-6pm daily

http://www.norwichoutpost.org/

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Open Studios & Group Exhibition:

Friday 28th & Saturday 29th June 2013
Studio Voltaire / Gasworks

Studio Voltaire and Gasworks have teamed up on a special Open House weekend. For two days artists at Studio Voltaire and Gasworks will open their workspaces to the public. Open House will also present a number of events including guided tours, talks, live events and special exhibitions, including eVil Studio rota - an exhibition of Studio Voltaire members' work organised by Andy Parker at Clapham Books, Clapham High street.

http://www.studiovoltaire.org/events.htm
https://www.facebook.com/events/604300289587592/

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Film Screening:

Saturday 1st June 2013
Flood
Jerwood Gallery, Hastings

The event will involve a selection of artists' film and video work, reflecting the surroundings of the Jerwood Gallery, focusing particularly on the sea, our physical relationship with water and a dip into the darker aspects of total submergence.
Compiled by Louise Colbourne, featuring: Mordant Music & Peter Greenaway, James Richards & Steve Reinke, Curious & Andrew Kotting, Sidone Zou-Zou Roberts, Dryden Goodwin, William Raban, Jayne Parker, Nick Collins, John Smith, Jim Hobbs, Andy Parker, Nick Snelling, Laure Prouvost, Louise Colbourne & Screen Archive South East.

http://www.jerwoodgallery.org/whatson/events/34/flood-film-screening

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Film Screening:

Monday 25th April 2013
From Slapstick to Horror
Jerwood Gallery, Hastings

A selection of artists’ film and video exploring intense physicality on screen, ranging from the comedy of slap-stick to more demanding performances and scenarios that are more closely
aligned to horror. The screening includes work by Bas Jan Ader, Zoe Brown, Eddie Peake, Dennis Oppenheim, Philip Hausmeier, Laure Provoust, Jenny Baines and others. By Louise Colbourne and Jim Hobbs.

http://www.jerwoodgallery.org/

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Film Screening:

Saturday 9th March 2013
From Slapstick to Horror
Studio 1.1 Gallery, Redchurch Street, London

http://www.studio1-1.co.uk/

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Exhibition Review:

Art Monthly #363, February 2013
Member's Show (Outpost, Norwich) by Adam Pugh

'... Where an economy of means prevailed, though, and proved such endeavour a means by which to transcend the material, was in the objets trouvés of Simon Liddiment’s Cultural Worker, 2011, and Andy Parker’s Renz, 2004, and Execration, 2011.
Printed on thin stock and pasted, not entirely carefully, onto the gallery wall, Liddiment’s minimal poster-collage of a beer bottle’s labels and top wrests a remarkably rich dialogue around resource and resources from so hermetic a source. Referencing commerce and the commercial (and by association product and productivity) in both form – endlessly reproducible, instrumental, throwaway – and content, playing with the facility of commodification and troubling the unique status of the art object, it summons a wry humour from its transformation to a figurative form.
Though by contrast a one-off, Parker’s drypoint etching of a vandalised train window, Renz, works with a similarly mute source, distilling a graphic purity from the author’s angular abrasions. With its letters reversed and blackened, a meaningless graffiti tag becomes inscrutable, alien, totemic even: the apocryphal word of an unknown prophet. And in an ouroboric turn, the surface of the paper is striated with embossed, inkless veins, an index of the glass cracking under the pressure of the printing process, the copy consuming the original and assuming its place. Part of a wider series, the windows and mirrors summon a sense of fragile permanence from a collection of unremarkable instances, a palimpsest of all those who have made marks.
Both Parker and Liddiment’s works manage to estrange the objects they find, displacing and altering meaning, and this emerged as a theme common to much in the exhibition, whether in the explicitly performative strategies of Massey, who explodes contingent concepts, or Candice Jacobs, whose playful yet rather quotidian audio piece Thank-You, 2008, edits out context to procure a stream of thanks…' [Excerpt]

http://adampugh.co.uk/review-members-show-outpost-norwich/
http://www.artmonthly.co.uk/

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Group Exhibition:

Member’s Show
OUTPOST, Norwich
2nd – 21st December, 2011

Selected by Ruth Ewan featuring Johann Arens, Maeve Brennan, Tom Crawford, Will Cruikshank, Mark Essen, Candice Jacobs, Leo Koivistoinen, Simon Liddiment, Scott Massey, Terence McCormack, Stella Ouzounidou, Andy Parker, Tom Smith, Laura Wilson.

http://www.norwichoutpost.org/artist_pages/94_members_show_2012/

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Open Studios & Group Exhibition:

Friday 5th & Saturday 6th October 2012
Open House & eVil Studio rota
Studio Voltaire, London

Open studios, including eVil Studio rota, an exhibition of Studio Voltaire members' work organised by Andy Parker and Markus Vater.

http://www.studiovoltaire.org

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Book Review:

25th May 2012
Times Literary Supplement
Deltiology
Susannah Clapp
‘Artist’s Postcards: A Compendium' by Jeremy Cooper

“…Many of the best play with the notion that the familiar picture postcard has an innocent and anonymous eye (…) Andy Parker tampers with the style of card that might feature in a Martin Parr “boring” collection, adorning glum pictures of lorries on boats with outsize cargoes of white fridges: the effect is subtly disconcerting. As are the sunsets that Tacita Dean slips into newsagents’ carousels alongside tourist postcards.” [Excerpt]

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/

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Group Exhibition:

The Artist’s Postcard Show
Spike Island, Bristol
6th April – 17th June, 2012

A group exhibition featuring work from the collection of writer and novelist Jeremy Cooper, author of Artists' Postcards: A Compendium (Reaktion Books).

http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/events/exhibitions/artists-postcard-show/

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Book Launch:

April 2012
Artists' Postcards: A Compendium
Jeremy Cooper
Reaktion Books
London

http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/reaktion

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Group Exhibition:

So There in Number Eighteen
10th – 12th December 2011
Parlour 20

Group exhibition at 18 Rugby Street, London, featuring Jo Addison, Ray Andrews, Neil Keith Baker, Sam Brown, Caroline Jupp, Andy Parker and Sarah Pettitt, organised by Susie Clark in conjunction with Leslie Rosa and Ciara Gilmartin's nomadic curatorial project Parlour.

http://parlourdoor.com/?m=2011

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Group Exhibition:

Member’s Show
OUTPOST, Norwich
2nd – 21st December 2011

Selected by Cerith Wyn Evans featuring Pascale Berthier , Peter Coffin, KIMI CONRAD, Mark Davey, Leo Koivistoinen, Scott Mason, Andy Parker, Derek Sutherland, Helen Sykes, Jonny JJ Winter.

http://www.norwichoutpost.org/artist_pages/83_members_11/

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Film Screening:

Sunday 23rd October 2011
From Slapstick to Horror
The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton Film Festival

A selection of artists’ film and video exploring intense physicality on screen, ranging from the comedy of slap-stick to more demanding performances and scenarios that are more closely
aligned to horror. The screening includes work by Bas Jan Ader, Zoe Brown, Eddie Peake, Dennis Oppenheim, Philip Hausmeier, Laure Prouvost, Jenny Baines and others. By Louise
Colbourne and Jim Hobbs.

http://www.cine-city.co.uk/films/from-slapstick-to-horror/

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Group Exhibition / Residency:

Working Title
Aspex, Portsmouth
9th July – 25th September 2011

Will Cruickshank, Paul Matosic, Andy Parker, Kate Parrott, Charlie Hurcombe, Tamara Van San, Jason Taylor , Beata Kozlowska , Nicola Dale, Thomas Davis, Amy Tigger Holroyd.

http://www.aspex.org.uk/events/working-title/
http://workingtitleexhibition.wordpress.com/

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Open Studios & Group Exhibition:

Friday 29th & Saturday 30th July 2011
Open House & eVil Studio rota
Studio Voltaire

eVil Studio rota is an exhibition organised and hung by Andy Parker and Susie Clark to accompany the open house event.

http://www.studiovoltaire.org

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Solo Exhibition Online:

ArtVehicle.co.uk
Featured Artist
July 2010

Showing Timed Release, 2010, a film of a weather ballon that is only available on the internet at 11:12am daily.

http://www.artvehicle.com/artists/43

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Interview:

ArtVehicle.co.uk
Featured Artist
July 2010

Andy Parker interviewed by Carmen Julia, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate Britain.

http://www.artvehicle.com/interview/21

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Film Screening:

Saturday 21st November 2009
Block Party
Light & Wire Gallery, Los Angeles
4026 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles 90065

Includes screening of The Seventh Wave, 2007, in conjunction with Block Party, a walkable tour of art venues in North East Los Angeles neighborhoods, hosted by Workspace, L.A.

http://blockpartyart.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/andy-parker

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Solo Exhibition Online:

Between Coming and Going
Light & Wire Gallery, Los Angeles
21st November – 31st December, 2009

Light & Wire Gallery is pleased to present Andy Parker's solo project Between Coming and Going.

Parker is based in London and predominantly makes unique drawings and sculptures. In conjunction with his often site specific works, Parker sometimes creates films, which document happenings and further illustrate ideas pertinent to the projects. For this online exhibition, Andy Parker has made stickers of various stages of his working process. Sent from London, the Directors of Light & Wire Gallery stuck these ephemeral images to impermanent, discarded objects in locations around Los Angeles.
These curated sitings were photographed and it is this documentation that creates the exhibition; the artwork itself exists only as a temporary, physical gesture.

http://lightandwiregallery.com/past-projects/andy-parker/

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20 March – 2 May, 2009
Solo Exhibition
Sies + Hoeke Galerie, Dusseldorf

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March 5 – 8, 2009
The Armory International Art Show, 2009
New York
Exhibiting with Sies + Hoeke

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