Dr Flora Parott
- Associate Lecturer
- Print MA
Flora is an Associate Lecturer on the Print MA programme and a tutor on Across RCA.
Flora Parrott is an artist working in print, textiles and sculpture whose work explores the interior landscape and mysterious points at which inside meets outside.
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Research interests
The work explores interior landscapes of the body, thinking through unseen workings and sensations that occur under the skin. Hand embroidered textiles, cast metal and photographic images come together taking the form of tableau or 3-dimensional collage, using natural forms and everyday objects.
Recent work has reimagined the mysteries of blurry ultrasound images, the insides of deep, dark pockets, exploring the imaginative potential of the close-at-hand. Flora often works collaboratively and across disciplines, organising thematic events to underpin and inform artistic research, two long-term collaborations with poet Frank Pearson and writer/ director Lindiwe Matshikiza continue to influence her thinking.
Research funding
TECHNE funded PhD, Royal Holloway University London (2016 – 2021)
Research Fellow, 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 (2020–25)
Publications, exhibitions, other outcomes
Book chapters
Hawkins, H. & Parrott, F., 2020, Six Voids in A Place More Void . Kingsbury, P. & Secor, A. (eds.). University of Nebraska
Journal articles:
Helle, U., & Parrott, F. (2025). Introduction to "Thinking with More-Than-Human Subsurfaces". UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 22, 96–98.
Baker C, Morris N, Tsirikos A, Fotakopoulou O, Parrott F. Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: interdisciplinary creative art practice and nature connections
Medical Humanities 2024;50:41-51.
Parrott, F & Hawkins, H 2021, 'Conversations in Caves', Leonardo, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 350-354.
Hawkins, H & Parrott, F 2021, 'Subterranean Space: The Interplanetary Mine and a Politics of Life?', Society and Space Forums .
Smith, MJ, Parrott, F, Monkman, A, O’Connor, J & Rousham, L 2019, '‘Reading landscape’: interdisciplinary approaches to understanding place', Journal of Maps, pp. 1-9.
Exhibitions
2022–23 ‘Hollow Earth’, Nottingham Contemporary, Glucksman Cork & RAMM Exeter, Hayward Touring
2021 ‘Rates of Decay’, Quench Gallery, Margate
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
2019–21, ‘In The Castle of My Skin’, Sonia Boyce. Work made in collaboration with Lindiwe Matshikiza, Eastside Projects, Birmingham and Middlesbrough Institute of Art
2019, ‘I’m In The Bath On All Fours’ work developed with Lindiwe Matshikiza, Well Projects Margate.
2015, ‘Posição Fixa’, Museo Geosciencia, USP, São Paulo
External collaborations and activities
Open School East board of Trustees (2021–24)
Open School East board of Trustees Young Associates Programme (2018–20)