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 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
28 March - 8 June 2025 Coventry Open, Herbert Gallery, Jordan Well, Coventry CV1 5QP
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
8 March 2025 'Never Done' at AAP performance festival for International Women's day, Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham
2024 'Judith Butler's Phantasmally They-SMR Shred' at AAP performance festival at RMBL, Digbeth, Birmingham
2024 'BIG', Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, Birmingham (durational performance 8 March)
2023 'Seven Sisters', exhibition and performances, Stryx, 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
2015 'Judith Butler’s Three-Hour Shred', Unruly Bodies conference, Sophia Institute, Brussels
Group Exhibitions
January 2025 Ort Members exhibition, Stryx JQ Gallery Space, Birmingham
2024 EOP Summer Camp Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2024 'For Funds Sake' Stryx studio holders show, Stryx, Minerva Works, 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 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 'Ikon for Artists', group show at Ikon 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 'Drawing the Line', with Morfydd Ransom-Hall, Camden Image Gallery, 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
2022 Depictions of Living 2, online panel moderated by Celyn Bricker for Continuous Regeneration, Venice Arsenale, Italy
2022 'Art in an Emergency', moderated by Hope Talbot, New Art Gallery Walsall
2022 Twenty Twenty Collection tour with Sherrie Edgar and curator Julie Brown, New Art Gallery Walsall
Residencies
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
New Art Gallery Walsall Collections Community Panel member
(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 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
28 March - 8 June 2025 Coventry Open, Herbert Gallery, Jordan Well, Coventry CV1 5QP
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
8 March 2025 'Never Done' at AAP performance festival for International Women's day, Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham
2024 'Judith Butler's Phantasmally They-SMR Shred' at AAP performance festival at RMBL, Digbeth, Birmingham
2024 'BIG', Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, Birmingham (durational performance 8 March)
2023 'Seven Sisters', exhibition and performances, Stryx, 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
2015 'Judith Butler’s Three-Hour Shred', Unruly Bodies conference, Sophia Institute, Brussels
Group Exhibitions
January 2025 Ort Members exhibition, Stryx JQ Gallery Space, Birmingham
2024 EOP Summer Camp Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2024 'For Funds Sake' Stryx studio holders show, Stryx, Minerva Works, 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 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 'Ikon for Artists', group show at Ikon 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 'Drawing the Line', with Morfydd Ransom-Hall, Camden Image Gallery, 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
2022 Depictions of Living 2, online panel moderated by Celyn Bricker for Continuous Regeneration, Venice Arsenale, Italy
2022 'Art in an Emergency', moderated by Hope Talbot, New Art Gallery Walsall
2022 Twenty Twenty Collection tour with Sherrie Edgar and curator Julie Brown, New Art Gallery Walsall
Residencies
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
New Art Gallery Walsall Collections Community Panel member
(Full CV available on request)