CROW DILLON-PARKIN
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'Half Life: Five by Five (Parts 1&2 and Part 3)' 2022 (polyptych; collage, tissue and gold ink on cotton duck on recycled stretchers,
​100 x 60cm and 100 x 70cm
) Parts 1&2 exhibited at Eastside Projects Summer Camp, Birmingham October 2022; Parts 1&2 and 3 exhibited at Ort Gallery, Birmingham December 2022
There are currently 5 parts to this polyptych, measuring 100 x 400cm. They can be hung close together or any distance apart. There might be more to come. It could go on forever...
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'Half Life: All the Meds' 2022 (collage, tissue and gold ink on rescued canvas​, 76 x 152cm)
​This is me trying to find a point in the day or in the week when I am optimally medicated. 
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'Half Life: Amitriptyline' 2022 (diptych, collage, mulberry paper and gold ink on rescued canvas, each panel 102 x 76cm)
This was the first work I made using my own notation system for the half-life of the medications I have to take every day. In this work I used the data from amitriptyline, which has a half life of 25 hours.
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'Keppra Diaries II' 2021 Collage, tissue and gold ink on canvas, overall size 82h x 61w cm (each panel 20 x 20 cm)
Exhibited in West Midlands Open 2022, New Art Gallery Walsall
This is a companion piece to the work below, with obscured and revealed words about my experience of epilepsy and its treatment following a late diagnosis after a major episode in 2108. The medication keeps it under control unless I'm more than usually stressed. The gold ink keeps everything together, like kintsugi.
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'Keppra Diaries I (Into the Blue)' 2021 Collage, tissue and gold ink on canvas, overall size 61h x 82w cm (each panel 20 x 20 cm)
​Exhibited in Ort Gallery Members show, Birmingham 2021
This was originally made as three sets of four small canvases, but I mounted them together to make them easier to install. I liked the effect so used it again for the companion piece (above). The small pieces were made at home and then assembled in my studio - I am vulnerable to Covid so the pandemic meant finding new ways of working. This work is about trying to process a later life epilepsy diagnosis - a condition I have had from childhood, but which was only formally diagnosed in my fifties. I have written diary entries about my experience over patient information leaflets for Keppra, then calmed everything down and unified the surface with blue tissue and gold ink.
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