Crow Dillon-Parkin (b. Conisbrough, Yorkshire) is a multi-disciplinary artist, living and working in Birmingham, England.
She has a BA in Art and Design from Bradford College (1990) and an MA in Art and Science from Central Saint Martins (2015).
Crow uses drawing, collage, photography, performance, video, sculpture, and installation to explore embodied experiences such as motherhood, disability, ageing, and climate breakdown from a feminist perspective. Working most often from her own lived experience as a neurodivergent woman with invisible physical disabilities, Crow layers medical, historical, and social models of physical experience with
subjective and personal data to explore how the body remembers its own history, and how it might write its own future narrative.
What folk stories do we share about the bodies and places we came from, and how do those stories shape us going forward? How are bodies affected by the economic, social, and political systems they live in? What will happen to all our bodies as the climate emergency worsens?
Since 2020 Crow has shown work at Mile End Pavilion, London; Ikon Gallery, Ort Gallery, Eastside Projects, and Stryx Gallery, Birmingham; the Venice Arsenale; and New Art Gallery Walsall. In 2021 her drawing ‘Stop Doing Stupid Things’ was acquired by New Art Gallery Walsall for the Twenty Twenty Collection. In 2022 her solo performance ‘Chica Caliente Goes Out-Out’ was selected for the Eastside Projects Summer Camp performance platform. In 2023 Crow was a delegated performer of 'Kleidungsaffe' by Melati Suryodarmo at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, and was selected for the EOP Summer Camp micro-residency. In November 2023 she had her first solo show 'Seven Sisters' at Stryx, Minerva Works, Birmingham, and her second solo show, 'BIG', was at Stryx in March 2024.
Current and Upcoming Events
6 December 2024 Digbeth First Friday, Stryx Winter Fair, 6-9pm, Minerva Works, Digbeth, Birmingham
Ort Members exhibition January 2025, Stryx JQ Gallery Space, Birmingham
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
22 June 2024 'Judith Butler's Phantasmally They-SMR Shred' at AAP performance festival at RMBL, Digbeth, Birmingham
March 2024 'BIG', Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, Birmingham (durational performance 8 March)
2023 'Seven Sisters', exhibition and performances, Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, Birmingham
2022 'Chica Caliente Goes Out-Out', Summer Camp Performance Platform, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2018 'Repetition is the Mother of Skill: Repetition is the Skill of Mothers' for Desperate Artwives SHESHOWS takeover, Leyden Gallery, London
2018 'Drawing the Line', with Morfydd Ransom-Hall, Camden Image Gallery, London
2015 'Judith Butler’s Three-Hour Shred', Unruly Bodies conference, Sophia Institute, Brussels
Group Exhibitions
September 2024 EOP Summer Camp Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
June 2024 'For Funds Sake' Stryx studio holders show, Stryx, Unit 13, Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RS
2023 Stryx Winter Fair, dual-site group exhibition at Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, and Stryx JQ, 90 Vyse Street, Birmingham
2023 'Depictions of Living 3', curated by Roshanak Khakban and Samuel Ivan Roberts for Climate Matters Symposium, London
2023 'Kleidungsaffe', delegated performances for Melati Surydarmo at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2023 Summer Camp Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2023 Procreate Project Archive group show at Mother House Studios, London
2023 'Home Grown', studio holders show, Stryx JQ, 90 Vyse Street, Birmingham
F2023 Stryx Studio Holders Show, Stryx, Minerva Works, Digbeth, Birmingham
2022 Ort Gallery Members Show, Ort Gallery, Birmingham
2022 Summer Camp Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2022 'Depictions of Living 2' curated by Roshanak Khakban and Samuel Ivan Roberts for Continuous Regeneration, Venice Arsenale, Italy
2022 West Midlands Open, New Art Gallery Walsall
2022 Twenty Twenty Collection, New Art Gallery Walsall (artwork in permanent collection)
2021 'Up, Down (and Somewhere in Between)', ORT Gallery, Birmingham
2021 'Ikon for Artists', group show at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2020 Schwarmerei Online Members Show, ORT Gallery, Birmingham
2020 'Depictions of Living', curated by Roshanak Khakban and Samuel Ivan Roberts, The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London
2019 'Confluence', curated by Justine Johnson, Safehouse 1, London
2019 'Judith Butler’s Neoliberal Postcolonial All-inclusive Shred', group performance at Talking Bodies Conference, University of Chester
2019 'Women Artists Are The Best Artists', with tenthirtyart, Camden Image Gallery, London
2018 'Womanspace', with Desperate Artwives, Platform 1 Gallery, London
2018 'Judith Butler's Mitochondrial Shred', performance with Lilith Dillon-Parkin for Inside Out by Desperate Artwives, Leyden Gallery, London
2017 'Judith Butler's New Improved Shred', performance with The Artist Bette Mann at INTERGENFEM, for Desperate Artwives, London
2015 'Fluorescent', arts festival curated by Allenheads, Soho, London
1992 'Women In Action', The Nicht Gallery, Redfield
1991 Sixth Yorkshire Artists Biennale, Crescent Art Gallery, Scarborough
Performative Lectures and Panels
Aug 2022 Depictions of Living 2, online panel moderated by Celyn Bricker for Continuous Regeneration, Venice Arsenale, Italy
Aug 2022 'Art in an Emergency', moderated by Hope Talbot, New Art Gallery Walsall
May 2022 Twenty Twenty Collection tour with Sherrie Edgar and curator Julie Brown, NAGW
Apr 2017 'This Girl Can't?', Talking Bodies Conference, University of Chester
Oct 2015 '#BeingReal (reiterated) 'Unruly Bodies Conference, Sophia Institute, Brussels
Apr 2015 'Hashtag Be Real', Talking Bodies Conference, University of Chester
Residencies
Jul 2023 Summer Camp Micro-residency, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Collections
Twenty Twenty Collection, New Art Gallery Walsall
Procreate Project (PCP) Archive (online)
Associations
Stryx studio holder, 89/90 Vyse Street, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
Member of Extra Ordinary People, Eastside Projects, Birmingham and Ort Gallery, Birmingham
Collections Community Panel member, New Art Gallery Walsall
(Full CV available on request)
She has a BA in Art and Design from Bradford College (1990) and an MA in Art and Science from Central Saint Martins (2015).
Crow uses drawing, collage, photography, performance, video, sculpture, and installation to explore embodied experiences such as motherhood, disability, ageing, and climate breakdown from a feminist perspective. Working most often from her own lived experience as a neurodivergent woman with invisible physical disabilities, Crow layers medical, historical, and social models of physical experience with
subjective and personal data to explore how the body remembers its own history, and how it might write its own future narrative.
What folk stories do we share about the bodies and places we came from, and how do those stories shape us going forward? How are bodies affected by the economic, social, and political systems they live in? What will happen to all our bodies as the climate emergency worsens?
Since 2020 Crow has shown work at Mile End Pavilion, London; Ikon Gallery, Ort Gallery, Eastside Projects, and Stryx Gallery, Birmingham; the Venice Arsenale; and New Art Gallery Walsall. In 2021 her drawing ‘Stop Doing Stupid Things’ was acquired by New Art Gallery Walsall for the Twenty Twenty Collection. In 2022 her solo performance ‘Chica Caliente Goes Out-Out’ was selected for the Eastside Projects Summer Camp performance platform. In 2023 Crow was a delegated performer of 'Kleidungsaffe' by Melati Suryodarmo at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, and was selected for the EOP Summer Camp micro-residency. In November 2023 she had her first solo show 'Seven Sisters' at Stryx, Minerva Works, Birmingham, and her second solo show, 'BIG', was at Stryx in March 2024.
Current and Upcoming Events
6 December 2024 Digbeth First Friday, Stryx Winter Fair, 6-9pm, Minerva Works, Digbeth, Birmingham
Ort Members exhibition January 2025, Stryx JQ Gallery Space, Birmingham
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
22 June 2024 'Judith Butler's Phantasmally They-SMR Shred' at AAP performance festival at RMBL, Digbeth, Birmingham
March 2024 'BIG', Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, Birmingham (durational performance 8 March)
2023 'Seven Sisters', exhibition and performances, Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, Birmingham
2022 'Chica Caliente Goes Out-Out', Summer Camp Performance Platform, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2018 'Repetition is the Mother of Skill: Repetition is the Skill of Mothers' for Desperate Artwives SHESHOWS takeover, Leyden Gallery, London
2018 'Drawing the Line', with Morfydd Ransom-Hall, Camden Image Gallery, London
2015 'Judith Butler’s Three-Hour Shred', Unruly Bodies conference, Sophia Institute, Brussels
Group Exhibitions
September 2024 EOP Summer Camp Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
June 2024 'For Funds Sake' Stryx studio holders show, Stryx, Unit 13, Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RS
2023 Stryx Winter Fair, dual-site group exhibition at Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, and Stryx JQ, 90 Vyse Street, Birmingham
2023 'Depictions of Living 3', curated by Roshanak Khakban and Samuel Ivan Roberts for Climate Matters Symposium, London
2023 'Kleidungsaffe', delegated performances for Melati Surydarmo at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2023 Summer Camp Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2023 Procreate Project Archive group show at Mother House Studios, London
2023 'Home Grown', studio holders show, Stryx JQ, 90 Vyse Street, Birmingham
F2023 Stryx Studio Holders Show, Stryx, Minerva Works, Digbeth, Birmingham
2022 Ort Gallery Members Show, Ort Gallery, Birmingham
2022 Summer Camp Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2022 'Depictions of Living 2' curated by Roshanak Khakban and Samuel Ivan Roberts for Continuous Regeneration, Venice Arsenale, Italy
2022 West Midlands Open, New Art Gallery Walsall
2022 Twenty Twenty Collection, New Art Gallery Walsall (artwork in permanent collection)
2021 'Up, Down (and Somewhere in Between)', ORT Gallery, Birmingham
2021 'Ikon for Artists', group show at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2020 Schwarmerei Online Members Show, ORT Gallery, Birmingham
2020 'Depictions of Living', curated by Roshanak Khakban and Samuel Ivan Roberts, The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London
2019 'Confluence', curated by Justine Johnson, Safehouse 1, London
2019 'Judith Butler’s Neoliberal Postcolonial All-inclusive Shred', group performance at Talking Bodies Conference, University of Chester
2019 'Women Artists Are The Best Artists', with tenthirtyart, Camden Image Gallery, London
2018 'Womanspace', with Desperate Artwives, Platform 1 Gallery, London
2018 'Judith Butler's Mitochondrial Shred', performance with Lilith Dillon-Parkin for Inside Out by Desperate Artwives, Leyden Gallery, London
2017 'Judith Butler's New Improved Shred', performance with The Artist Bette Mann at INTERGENFEM, for Desperate Artwives, London
2015 'Fluorescent', arts festival curated by Allenheads, Soho, London
1992 'Women In Action', The Nicht Gallery, Redfield
1991 Sixth Yorkshire Artists Biennale, Crescent Art Gallery, Scarborough
Performative Lectures and Panels
Aug 2022 Depictions of Living 2, online panel moderated by Celyn Bricker for Continuous Regeneration, Venice Arsenale, Italy
Aug 2022 'Art in an Emergency', moderated by Hope Talbot, New Art Gallery Walsall
May 2022 Twenty Twenty Collection tour with Sherrie Edgar and curator Julie Brown, NAGW
Apr 2017 'This Girl Can't?', Talking Bodies Conference, University of Chester
Oct 2015 '#BeingReal (reiterated) 'Unruly Bodies Conference, Sophia Institute, Brussels
Apr 2015 'Hashtag Be Real', Talking Bodies Conference, University of Chester
Residencies
Jul 2023 Summer Camp Micro-residency, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Collections
Twenty Twenty Collection, New Art Gallery Walsall
Procreate Project (PCP) Archive (online)
Associations
Stryx studio holder, 89/90 Vyse Street, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
Member of Extra Ordinary People, Eastside Projects, Birmingham and Ort Gallery, Birmingham
Collections Community Panel member, New Art Gallery Walsall
(Full CV available on request)