All afloat. Lost at sea.
Distress Shirt, 2013, appliqué on Cowboy Shirt
Andy Parker (b.1978), graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007 and received a Deutsche Bank Award for Fine Art the same year. Solo exhibitions have included Sies+Höke, Düsseldorf and Lokaal 01, Antwerp, and the Museum of St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean. In 2013 Parker had his first solo presentation in the UK, at OUTPOST, Norwich and in 2015 was the UK representative at the Turku Biennial, Finland. In 2024 he was selected to take part in the Cornwall Workshop and is currently developing new work from research funded by an Arts Council England ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ grant.
His work is held in public and private collections including Deutsche Bank, V&A and the British Museum. He currently lives and works in Somerset, UK.
“This is the individual and cumulative effect of Parker’s work; the energy of what we expect is absorbed and embedded within the fabric of creation and engulfs the act of seeing and comprehending the inherent logic in the life of things we momentarily think we depend upon.”
Ajay RS Hothi, 2011