Fixed Position Flora Parrott

12 March – 19 April 2014

Flora Parrott won an Arts Council/British Council Artists’ International Development Fund Award to travel to Brazil and develop  Fixed Position. In June 2013 she went to the PETAR Caves, one of the largest concentrations of limestone caves in the world. The tactile, sensory experience of being in the caves channelled her thinking about certainty of position, fixity and the way we are defined by our edges.

Fixed Position is a UK/ Brazil collaboration, co-curated by Maria Montero, director of Phosphorus Gallery in Sao Paulo, where it will have a second iteration.

Events

Deep Time & Darkness  Geologist Andrew Hurst gave a response to Fixed Position and discussed the concept of ‘deep time’: Thursday 20 March 7pm.

An Infinite Centre a new performance work by Jack Tan that considers echo, repetition, semaphore and journey in relation to the idea of gallery as cave: Thursday 27 March 7 for 7.30pm

Flora Parrott

Fixed Position – Installation view

Flora Parrott

Stalagmite Sculpture, 2014

Ply & jesso with photocopies, steel rod, concrete base, mounted screenprint, pressed flower between glass, vellum between glass, string on grid, black sand
214 ht (14 x 14 base) cm

Flora Parrott

Horn Circle, 2014

Cast aluminium, carved bone, stainless steel rods (hanging piece) 44 x 15 cm Table: painted plywood & pine, black silicone, water, buffalo horn threaded on elastic, black sand 73 x 21 x 27 cm

Flora Parrott

Horn Circle, 2014

Cast aluminium, carved bone, stainless steel rods (hanging piece) Table: painted plywood & pine, black silicone, water, buffalo horn threaded on elastic, black sand

Flora Parrott

Certainty of Position III, 2014

C-Type print 39 x 58 cm

Flora Parrott

Installation view showing Bone Circle, 2014

Cast aluminium, carved bone, stainless steel rods

Flora Parrott

Fixed Position – Installation view, 2014

Flora Parrott

Push Through, 2012/2014

Powder coated steel, C-prints, rocks

Flora Parrott

Stalagmite Sculpture, 2014

(detail)

Flora Parrott

Certainty of Position, 2014

Laser print on rolled steel
44 x 30 cm

Flora Parrott

Installation view – showing Cave Ladder, 2014

Stained spruce, black sand

Flora Parrott

Fixed Position – Portal, 2014

Blackboard paint

Flora Parrott

Fixed Position – Portal, 2014

Blackboard paint

Flora Parrott

Certainty of Position, 2014

Laser prints, copper

Flora Parrott

Installation view, 2014