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).
She has had parallel careers in documentation, archive and project management and training, alongside fitness industry education and parenting, and has competed and coached in multiple sports.
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 menopausal 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. How are bodies affected by the economic, social, and political systems they live in and under? What will happen to all our bodies as the climate emergency worsens?
Since 2020 Crow has shown work at Mile End Pavilion, London; Ort Gallery, Ikon Gallery, Eastside Projects and Stryx Gallery in 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.
Her solo performance ‘Chica Caliente Goes Out-Out’ was selected for Eastside Projects Summer Camp performance platform (Birmingham, October 2022), and she was a delegated performer of 'Kleidungsaffe' by Melati Suryodarmo at Ikon Gallery Birmingham in summer 2023.
In 2023 Crow was selected for the EOP Summer Camp micro-residency 25-28 July at Eastside Projects, Birmingham. Her first solo show
'Seven Sisters' was in November 2023, at Stryx, Minerva Works, Birmingham, and her second 'BIG' was at Stryx in March 2024.
Current and Upcoming Events
07 June - Stryx studio holders show, Stryx, Unit 13, Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RS (opens Digbeth First Friday)
08 June - participating in opening event for the Community Collections Panel's Ableism project at New Art Gallery Walsall
22 June - participating in AAP performance festival at RMBL, Digbeth, Birmingham
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
March 2024 BIG, Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, Birmingham (durational performance Friday 8 March 12-4pm)
November 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, durational performance, Unruly Bodies conference, Sophia Institute, Brussels
Group Exhibitions
27 Nov-23 Dec Stryx Winter Fair, dual-site group exhibition at Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, and Stryx JQ, 90 Vyse Street, Birmingham
September & October 2023 Birmingham Open Studios, Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RS
September 2023 Depictions of Living 3, curated by Roshanak Khakban and Samuel Ivan Roberts for Climate Matters Symposium, London
May-August 2023 Kleidungsaffe, delegated performances for Melati Suryodarmo, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
August 2023 Summer Camp Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
June 2023 Procreate Project Archive, group show at Mother House Studios, Catford Mews, London
April 2023 Home Grown, studio holders show, Stryx JQ, 90 Vyse Street, Birmingham
February 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 by NAGW for permanent collection)
2021 Up, Down (and Somewhere in Between), ORT Gallery, Birmingham
2021 Ikon for Artists, group show at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2021 May Day M'Aidez MAYDAY, with tenthirtyart, Camden Image Gallery, London
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 for FiLiArt, London
2016 A Grand Day Out, with tenthirtyart, The Crypt Gallery, London
2016 Frayed at the Edge, with tenthirtyart, The Rag Factory, London
2016 Here Comes The Flood, curated by Dr Daniel Barnes, The Landing, Euroart Studios, London
2015 Infusion, with tenthirtyart, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2015 Fluorescent, arts festival curated by Allenheads, Soho, London
2015 Chelsea Salon, curated by Joshua Y’Barbo, Penarth Studios, London
2015 multi-infra-sub-meta, MA Art and Science Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London
2014 Crepuscular, with Milk Platform, The Crypt Gallery, London
2014 Interactions, The Old Truman Brewery, 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 Continuous Regeneration, Venice Arsenale, Italy
Aug 2022 Art in an Emergency, moderated by Hope Talbot, Twenty Twenty Collection closing event, New Art Gallery Walsall
May 2022 Twenty Twenty Collection artists tour with Sherrie Edgar and curator Julie Brown, New Art Gallery Walsall
Apr 2017 This Girl Can't?, Talking Bodies Conference, University of Chester
Oct 2015 #BeingReal (reiterated), Unruly Bodies Conference, Sophia Institute, Brussels
Jun 2015 #BeingEmbodied, London LASER 10, University of Westminster
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)
Ekalma (Slovenia)
Associations
Stryx studio holder, Minerva Works, Birmingham
Current member of Extra Ordinary People, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Art Education
2015 MA Art and Science (Distinction), Central Saint Martins (UAL), London
1990 BA Art and Design (Distinction), Bradford and Ilkley Community College
1986 Foundation Certificate in Art and Design, Birmingham Polytechnic
Photograph of '...les neiges d'antan?' at The Crypt Gallery (2016) by Martin Sturgess
She has had parallel careers in documentation, archive and project management and training, alongside fitness industry education and parenting, and has competed and coached in multiple sports.
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 menopausal 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. How are bodies affected by the economic, social, and political systems they live in and under? What will happen to all our bodies as the climate emergency worsens?
Since 2020 Crow has shown work at Mile End Pavilion, London; Ort Gallery, Ikon Gallery, Eastside Projects and Stryx Gallery in 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.
Her solo performance ‘Chica Caliente Goes Out-Out’ was selected for Eastside Projects Summer Camp performance platform (Birmingham, October 2022), and she was a delegated performer of 'Kleidungsaffe' by Melati Suryodarmo at Ikon Gallery Birmingham in summer 2023.
In 2023 Crow was selected for the EOP Summer Camp micro-residency 25-28 July at Eastside Projects, Birmingham. Her first solo show
'Seven Sisters' was in November 2023, at Stryx, Minerva Works, Birmingham, and her second 'BIG' was at Stryx in March 2024.
Current and Upcoming Events
07 June - Stryx studio holders show, Stryx, Unit 13, Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RS (opens Digbeth First Friday)
08 June - participating in opening event for the Community Collections Panel's Ableism project at New Art Gallery Walsall
22 June - participating in AAP performance festival at RMBL, Digbeth, Birmingham
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
March 2024 BIG, Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, Birmingham (durational performance Friday 8 March 12-4pm)
November 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, durational performance, Unruly Bodies conference, Sophia Institute, Brussels
Group Exhibitions
27 Nov-23 Dec Stryx Winter Fair, dual-site group exhibition at Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, and Stryx JQ, 90 Vyse Street, Birmingham
September & October 2023 Birmingham Open Studios, Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RS
September 2023 Depictions of Living 3, curated by Roshanak Khakban and Samuel Ivan Roberts for Climate Matters Symposium, London
May-August 2023 Kleidungsaffe, delegated performances for Melati Suryodarmo, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
August 2023 Summer Camp Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
June 2023 Procreate Project Archive, group show at Mother House Studios, Catford Mews, London
April 2023 Home Grown, studio holders show, Stryx JQ, 90 Vyse Street, Birmingham
February 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 by NAGW for permanent collection)
2021 Up, Down (and Somewhere in Between), ORT Gallery, Birmingham
2021 Ikon for Artists, group show at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2021 May Day M'Aidez MAYDAY, with tenthirtyart, Camden Image Gallery, London
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 for FiLiArt, London
2016 A Grand Day Out, with tenthirtyart, The Crypt Gallery, London
2016 Frayed at the Edge, with tenthirtyart, The Rag Factory, London
2016 Here Comes The Flood, curated by Dr Daniel Barnes, The Landing, Euroart Studios, London
2015 Infusion, with tenthirtyart, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2015 Fluorescent, arts festival curated by Allenheads, Soho, London
2015 Chelsea Salon, curated by Joshua Y’Barbo, Penarth Studios, London
2015 multi-infra-sub-meta, MA Art and Science Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London
2014 Crepuscular, with Milk Platform, The Crypt Gallery, London
2014 Interactions, The Old Truman Brewery, 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 Continuous Regeneration, Venice Arsenale, Italy
Aug 2022 Art in an Emergency, moderated by Hope Talbot, Twenty Twenty Collection closing event, New Art Gallery Walsall
May 2022 Twenty Twenty Collection artists tour with Sherrie Edgar and curator Julie Brown, New Art Gallery Walsall
Apr 2017 This Girl Can't?, Talking Bodies Conference, University of Chester
Oct 2015 #BeingReal (reiterated), Unruly Bodies Conference, Sophia Institute, Brussels
Jun 2015 #BeingEmbodied, London LASER 10, University of Westminster
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)
Ekalma (Slovenia)
Associations
Stryx studio holder, Minerva Works, Birmingham
Current member of Extra Ordinary People, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Art Education
2015 MA Art and Science (Distinction), Central Saint Martins (UAL), London
1990 BA Art and Design (Distinction), Bradford and Ilkley Community College
1986 Foundation Certificate in Art and Design, Birmingham Polytechnic
Photograph of '...les neiges d'antan?' at The Crypt Gallery (2016) by Martin Sturgess