Contact:
robertkparkinson(at)gmail.com
Don't forget the 'K'!

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Commissions:

As and When, Open Eye Gallery - 2017 (Continued support from Open Eye Gallery & FACT 2018-2022)
Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne Council -2016
Making Mistakes, Whitworth Art Gallery - 2016
Notice, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art: 2015 - 2016
There's Something About Medway, UCA - Fellowship Festival - 2015
Workshop series, Harris Museum - 2015
Preston Pavillion, Festi-Conference for Creative Collectives - 2013
Four Versions of Three Routes, British Journal of Photography - 2012
I Can and I Will, Croydon Urban Pioneers, Architecture Foundation - 2012
Derby publication, Format International Photography Festival - 2011

Robert Parkinson is an artist based in Manchester. His work revolves around social and political themes, the everyday, and cultural elements that shape the people and infrastructure of Britain today.

Pedagogy and collaboration is at the core of Roberts practice; he has led workshops across a number of institutes in the UK and currently teaches at Salford University.

In 2009 Robers co-founded Preston is my Paris in 2009 with Adam Murray.

Selected Media:

As & When, Source: The Experimental Issue, Spring - 2018
Interview for Loose Joints Radio, Know Wave Radio - 2018
Park & Ride article and printed edition launch, LAW Magazine Issue 9 - 2016
Interviewed for Cologne Art Book Fair, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger - 2016
Publication feature, The Photobook: A History Vol 3 - 2014
Four Versions of Three Routes feature, Brighton Photo Biennial, Frieze - 2013
Project and publication feature, Photoworks Issue 16 - 2011
Publication feature, Behind the Zines – Self Publishing Culture - 2011
Zine of the month, Dazed and Confused - 2011

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Exhibitions/Features:

Shortlisted for Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award, UK - 2018
What is Socially Engaged Photography? Guest talk, Open Eye Gallery, UK - 2017
Culture Shifts, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK - 2017
Here's a Photo, Here's a Printer, Now Start a Zine, workshop for Martin Creed's show, Harris Museum, UK - 2017
As and When, The Brindley, Halton, UK - 2017
Golden Age of Chaos and Clusterfuck, Myymala 2, Helsinki, Finland - 2017
Taxed for Being a Woman, Manchester City Gallery, Manchester, UK - 2017
Notice, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK 2016
Leveller, Port St Beer House, Manchester, UK - 2016
Swill Down Mud, Victoria Train Station, Manchester, UK - 2016
Common Ground, Woodhorn Museum, Ashington, UK 2016
Metro-polis, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK - 2015
The Library Vaccine, Artists Space, New York, USA - 2014
Don't Stop Now: Fashion Photography Next, Foam, Amsterdam, Netherlands - 2014
The Photobook and Photography now, Tate Modern, London, UK - 2012
Plat(t)form Special Mention, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland 2012
Archizines, Architecture Foundation London UK - 2011
Publish It Yourself, Maison D'Arts, Paris, France - 2011
Publish It Yourself, Maison D'Arts, Paris, France - 2010
Self Publish, Be Happy, The Photographers Gallery, London - 2010
Preston is my Paris, Guildhall Arcade, Preston - 2010

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Robert co-founded Bound Art Book Fair in 2017 with the intention of celebrating independent publishers and printed matter away from the overly saturated fair's in London.