Vicken Parsons
Vicken Parsons (b. 1957) is a British artist who studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She makes small, intimate paintings on wood panel using thin layers of oil paint. Her subjects are usually of landscapes or architectural spaces, some remembered and others imagined.
Recent solo exhibitions include RX Gallery, Paris (2021); Cristea Roberts Gallery, London (2020); Jesus College, Cambridge (2018); Ivorypress, Madrid (2017); Alan Cristea Gallery, London (2012, 2016); Christine Koenig Galerie; Vienna (2016); Roche Court, Salisbury (2014) and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018); Foundling Museum, London (2016); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2016); Tate Britain, London (2015); Southampton City Art Gallery (2010).
Her work is held in a number of important public collections including the Tate collection, Belvedere Museum collection, UK Government Art Collection, Arts Council Collection, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s collection and the Jerwood Foundation.
Vicken Parsons lives and works in London.
Exhibitions at Kettle’s Yard
Vicken Parsons: Painted Objects
14 September – 13 October 2013
Vicken Parsons is best known for her small, intimate paintings of landscape and architectural space. But for this special installation of work in St Peter’s Church, Parsons showed a number of recent sculptures or ‘painted objects‘ that might almost be models for utilitarian buildings.
Vicken Parsons: House Artist
3 March – 31 August 2014
Following her 2013 Kettle’s Yard exhibition in St. Peter’s Church, we invited Vicken Parsons to display a number of her paintings and sculptures among the permanent collection in the house.
Reflections from Home No.2: Vicken Parsons, Norfolk, England
What were artists thinking and doing during the COVID-19 lockdown? We spoke to Vicken Parsons in Norfolk.
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Artists Buttons
For the Artists Buttons project, Vicken Parsons created leaf-like forms in clay, each one unique and individually handmade by the artist.
Vicken Parsons Exhibition Publication
House ArtistFrom May to August 2014 fourteen paintings and one sculpture by Vicken Parsons were displayed in the Kettle’s Yard house. This new publication about the display includes photographs by Belinda Parsons, texts by Jim Ede and Andrew Nairne and poems by Kathleen Raine and Emily Dickinson.
Vicken Parsons Exhibition Publication
Painted ObjectsThis illustrated catalogue accompanied the exhibition of the same name which ran 14 September 2013 – 13 October 2013. For this special installation of work in St Peter’s Church, Parsons showed a number of recent sculptures or ‘painted objects‘ that might almost be models for utilitarian buildings.