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 makes things out of other things. Currently she is making small dolls exploring female archetypes, folktales and memories, using empty HRT bottles and scraps of materials. The materials vary depending on what she has available and what the dolls want, based on her research and her conversations with them as she works. Each doll is different, and they all contain hidden elements, in the tradition of poppets or witch dolls. The making process reconnects Crow with the handicrafts practiced by her female relatives, childhood peg dolls, and folk art. Crow is also influenced by Louise Bourgeois, religious iconography, and medical imagery.
Embodied experience is at the heart of all Crow's work. In this series of dolls, the precious but potentially hazardous HRT bottles are protected rather than being discarded. It is important to Crow that women's lived experiences are also protected, that those memories are preserved and those stories are told.
Since 2020 Crow has shown work at Mile End Pavilion, London; Ikon Gallery, Ort Gallery, Eastside Projects, and Stryx Gallery, Birmingham; the Venice Arsenale; New Art Gallery Walsall; and the Herbert Gallery, Coventry. 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
2-23 April 2026 'small', solo exhibition, Stryx JQ Gallery Space, Birmingham B18 6JZ (Opening Event 3-6pm Saturday 4 April)
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
February 2026 'Rites of Spring', at APE performance event, curated by Tammy Woodrow and Evelynn Wenman, Centrala, Birmingham
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
Friday 6 February 2026 'At Home', group show curated by Jemima Graham, Stryx Gallery, Minerva Works, Birmingham
January 2026 'Gallery in the Glass', group show curated by Paul Lemmon, Resorts World Birmingham
December 2025 - January 2026 'Winter Folk', group exhibition, curated by Ruth Millington, The Courtyard Gallery, Solihull
2025 'Artist Pound' collective show created and curated by Jemima Graham, Stryx Gallery, Minerva Works, Birmingham
2025 Coventry Open, Herbert Gallery, Coventry
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 acquired for 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 makes things out of other things. Currently she is making small dolls exploring female archetypes, folktales and memories, using empty HRT bottles and scraps of materials. The materials vary depending on what she has available and what the dolls want, based on her research and her conversations with them as she works. Each doll is different, and they all contain hidden elements, in the tradition of poppets or witch dolls. The making process reconnects Crow with the handicrafts practiced by her female relatives, childhood peg dolls, and folk art. Crow is also influenced by Louise Bourgeois, religious iconography, and medical imagery.
Embodied experience is at the heart of all Crow's work. In this series of dolls, the precious but potentially hazardous HRT bottles are protected rather than being discarded. It is important to Crow that women's lived experiences are also protected, that those memories are preserved and those stories are told.
Since 2020 Crow has shown work at Mile End Pavilion, London; Ikon Gallery, Ort Gallery, Eastside Projects, and Stryx Gallery, Birmingham; the Venice Arsenale; New Art Gallery Walsall; and the Herbert Gallery, Coventry. 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
2-23 April 2026 'small', solo exhibition, Stryx JQ Gallery Space, Birmingham B18 6JZ (Opening Event 3-6pm Saturday 4 April)
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
February 2026 'Rites of Spring', at APE performance event, curated by Tammy Woodrow and Evelynn Wenman, Centrala, Birmingham
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
Friday 6 February 2026 'At Home', group show curated by Jemima Graham, Stryx Gallery, Minerva Works, Birmingham
January 2026 'Gallery in the Glass', group show curated by Paul Lemmon, Resorts World Birmingham
December 2025 - January 2026 'Winter Folk', group exhibition, curated by Ruth Millington, The Courtyard Gallery, Solihull
2025 'Artist Pound' collective show created and curated by Jemima Graham, Stryx Gallery, Minerva Works, Birmingham
2025 Coventry Open, Herbert Gallery, Coventry
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 acquired for 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)