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INSIGHT: Week 8 | Aimée Parrott
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INSIGHT IS A NEW ONLINE PLATFORM PRESENTED BY PIPPY HOULDSWORTH GALLERY, DEBUTING WORK BY A DIFFERENT ARTIST EACH WEEK. NEW WORK MADE DURING LOCKDOWN WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED ALONGSIDE A short VIDEO PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST.
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INSIGHT: WEEK 8 | aimée parrott
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Aimée Parrott's practice encompasses painting, printing, sculpture, artist books, murals and installation. The artist's understanding of painting, her primary medium, informs the ideas expressed throughout her practice as whole. Approaching the canvas as a fragile and permeable boundary - a metaphorical skin or body that holds the trace of time, thought and gesture - Parrott explores notions of transformation, connectivity and exchange.
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'The material presence of a painting, its fragility and yet density – its sense of layered time which benefits from a long slow look in order to unfold – is in contrast to the slipperiness of the sanitised, disembodied image on a screen hastily scrolled through'.
Aimée Parrott in conversation with Basil Beatty RA, Royal Academy Magazine, 2016
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'[Parrott] makes connections between microbial and galactic, human and non-human, and gives painting a voice in the ecological discussions of today.'
Figgy Guyver, Frieze, 2018
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'Looking at Aimée Parrott’s […] paintings I think about this impulse to think through the hands and feel through the eyes. To put herself up against the edges of things that surround her. In a world governed by information and data, these paintings look to establish a connection between the hands and the lips, translating the textural nature of speech into the gestural language of paint.'
George Vasey, The Weight of a Pigment (On the work of Aimée Parrott), 2016
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'I don’t want to shift completely to figuration; I want to keep the play between the two. I really like the openness of abstraction, the associations keep rolling. Once you make something that looks like something or is nameable it can become slightly more direct or closed.'
Aimée Parrott, The Studio, Royal Academy, 2016
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'To stand before one work is to imagine it alone, a frozen temporality requiring a further inspection, a little dip if you must, in its pools of ink and dye.'
Skye Arundhati Thomas, this is tomorrow, 2016
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'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.'
Aimée Parrott, Dais Contemporary, 2016