Aimée Parrott

Aimée Parrott’s work combines multiple processes including silk screening and mono printing as well as batik and collaging fabric. By layering and repeating colour and form she creates a sense of off-kilter rhythm where solid and amorphous substances collide. Approaching the surface of a painting as a metaphorical skin or permeable barrier, she is interested in the notion that a work of art can bridge the gap between an internal reality and an external one; a physical manifestation and translation of experience. Her practice taps into an understanding of ecosystems and bodies, of our own corporeal nexus, of different forms of consciousness, and how the multifarious exchanges and interchanges across life can be understood with the sensitivity they necessitate.

Aimée Parrott was born in 1987 in London where she lives and works. Since graduating from the Royal Academy in 2014, she has exhibited across the UK and internationally. Her recent shows include ‘The Studio at 4am’, Hastings Contemporary (2020), ‘To Paint the Gloom itself’, Terrace Gallery (2020) and ‘Gaia's Kidney’, Broadway Gallery (2020). In 2021 Parrott will be in residenc3 at the Villa Lena Foundation in Toiano, Italy.

“Primarily I think about painting as a way of being in contact with the world. I find it useful to approach the surface of a painting as a metaphorical skin, a permeable barrier. I am interested in the notion that a work of art can bridge the gap between an internal reality and an external one, that it can be a physical manifestation and a translation of experience. The importance of a direct encounter with the work is something I think about quite a lot, its material presence as an object is as crucial as its visual impact as an image.”
- Aimée Parrott from an interview with Dais Contemporary