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Staff details Ms Kayla Parker
Role Qualifications & background Postgraduate Certificate in Learning + Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE), University of Plymouth, 2008 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Gwent College of Higher Education, 1985 (degree dissertation: Dangerous dreams: advertising + women) Dip. Mem. Society of Industrial Artists + Designers (SIAD), Norwich School of Art + Design, 1978 East Anglian Diploma of Vocational Art + Design (Distinction), Norwich School of Art + Design, 1977 Professional membership ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film d'Animation) Producer/Director BECTU (Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph + Theatre Union) Affiliate member IAESDO (International Association of English Speaking Directors Organisations) PM-P (Plymouth Media-Partnership) Fellow of The Higher Education Academy Member of The Drawing Research Network Member of The Institute for Learning (MIfL) Roles on external bodies Teaching interests Research interests Other research Grants & contracts Film awards, grants and commissions (selected) 2009 Animate Projects commission for the Sea Change initiative of CABE, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, and the government's advisor on architecture, urban design and public space 2009 CEPPL Award: Supporting Learning in the Workplace (Centre for Excellence in Professional Placement Learning, University of Plymouth) 2008 Research award, PCAD: 'Immersion' exhibition by Locate research group 2008 ‘Hold’, large scale 16mm film projection, Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth 2007 Travel bursary: Plymouth Media-Partnership 2007 ‘Definitive Stories’, National Review of Live Art Screening Programme, New Moves International, Glasgow 2005 ‘Street Rat’, First Light Movies/The Film Council 2005 RIFE Lottery Award, South West Screen 2004 ‘Wild Ideas’, Bristol Natural History Consortium + Innovations South West, SWERDA 2004 no.w.here, London. Group exhibition 2003 ‘Awards for All’ Project Award, the Barefoot Project + National Lottery 2002 ‘Living City’ Project Award, Plymouth Arts Centre, South West Arts + National Lottery 2001 ‘Filmwaves’, LUX, London 2001 ‘Dartmoor Lives + Landscapes’, Aune Head Arts, Princetown, Devon 2000 ‘Miniature Film’, Poetry International, Royal Festival Hall 2000 ‘Women of Achievement’ Award (Nominated), Plymouth (finalist) 2000 ‘TX 2000’, Film Production Award, South West Media Development Agency + Carlton Broadcasting 2000 ‘Year of the Artist’ Project Award, South West Arts 1999 Film + Video Production Award, South West Media Development Agency 1999 Arts Grant, Plymouth City Council 1998 Exhibition Initiatives Award, South West Media Development Agency 1997 Silver Award, Hamburg Short Film Festival 1997 ‘One Minute Film’, London Film-Makers‘ Co-op, Lux + National Lottery 1997 ‘Awards for All’ Project Award, National Lottery 1997 The Award for Outstanding Contribution to Art, the City of Plymouth 1996 Film + Video Art Production Award, the Arts Council 1996 Silver Award, Hamburg International Film Festival 1994 ‘Animated Poem’, Poetry International, Royal Festival Hall 1994 ‘animate!’ Award, the Arts Council + Channel 4 1994 Production Projects Fund Award, British Film Institute 1993 Film + Video Production Award, South West Arts 1993 ‘One Minute Television’, Arts Council + BBC2’s The Late Show 1993 Nomination, The Dick Award 1993 Cinewomen Award, (Nominated), (Highly Commended) 1991 ‘Canan nan Gaidhael’ (The Language of the Gael), Scottish TV 1991 ‘animate!’ Award, the Arts Council + Channel 4 1990 Artists’ Film, Video + Broadcasting Award, the Arts Council 1990 Award of Merit, Cork Film Festival 1989 Television South West + South West Arts Film Award 1988 Film + Video Award, South West Arts Creative practice & artistic projects Public collections + archives Animation Research Centre (ARC) Archive, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK ASIFA Archive, Cinematheque, Lausanne, Switzerland BFI National Archive London, UK British Film + Video Artists' Study Collection University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, London, UK Diputación de Cádiz Videoteca, Spain European Media Art Festival (EMAF) Archive, Osnabrück, Germany Mediawave Archive, Győr, Hungary National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, UK National Review of Live Art Archive University of Bristol, UK Short Film Archive KurzFilmAgentur, Hamburg, Germany Southbank Centre Poetry Library, London, UK South West Film + Television Archive Plymouth, UK Women's Art Library (MAKE) Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Film + DVD distribution + sales LUX contact Mike Sperlinger mike@lux.org.uk; BFI; Sundog Media contact info@sundog.co.uk The 16mm films As Yet Unseen and Unknown Woman are also in distribution with EMAF (European Media Arts Festival) distribution@emaf.de Tel: 00 49 / (0)541 / 2 16 58 Filmography (selected artistic works) 2009 Teign Spirit HD video; an Animate Projects commission for the Sea Change initiative of CABE, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, and the government's advisor on architecture, urban design and public space 2009 'Twenty Foot Square' HD video 2009 'Verge: Nocturne' Super 16mm film [DVD] 2008 ‘Heirloom' Super 16mm film [DVD] 2008 'White Body' DV installation as floor projection [DVD] (silent) 2008 ‘Hold’ Super 16mm loop (silent) (b+w); Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth 2008 ‘Resubjection’ 16mm drawing and projection performance (b+w) 2007 Small World HD video, commissoned by Stephen Littman University for the Creative Arts + Peter Richardson University of Dundee for the 'Definitive Stories' section of the National Review of Live Art screening programme at the Tramway Gallery in Glasgow. The ‘Definitive Stories’ project "investigates the deployment of High Definition technologies in an exhibition context. The research posed the question: Will HD technology deployed in an exhibition context, generate new forms of expression for artist/filmmakers?" (Megapixel programme notes: Anglia Ruskin University conference held at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge, 10 -11 October 2007). 'Definitive Stories' collection held in NRLA archive, Bristol University. 2006 ‘Poppies’ Super 16mm (silent), with triptych of photographs printed from 16mm film frames 2005 ‘verge’ Super 16mm diptych, installation [DVD]; commission Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall 2004 'A Short Walk' one minute 16mm film, no.w.here launch London 2004 ‘wort / wall / water’ 16mm triptych, installation [DVD] (silent) 2002 ‘Life in the Bus Lane’ DV (site-specific installation Plymouth city centre: Panasonic store, Debenhams + other locations); commission Plymouth Arts Centre 2001 Inner City DV (site-specific screening Plymouth city centre: Panasonic store + Plymouth Arts Centre); Year of the Artist residency with Attik Dance (director: Lois Taylor); Arts Council/South West Media Development Agency. 2001 ‘Physic’ DV (digital embroidery, loop), Aune Head Arts 2000 ‘Walking Out’ 16mm, Arts Council/South West Arts 1997 Project Super 8mm and BetaSP video, National Lottery/London Filmmakers' Co-op 1996 Sunset Strip 35mm, Channel 4/Arts Council Animate Award 1994 ‘As Yet Unseen’ video installation, with photographic prints 1994 ‘Elemental’ Super 8mm, Plymouth City Museum + Art Galley commission for 'Strandline' exhibition 1994 ‘As Yet Unseen’ 16mm, BFI Production 1993 ‘Night Sounding’ 16mm, One Minute Television, BBC2's The Late Show/Arts Council 1992 Cage of Flame 16mm, Channel 4/Arts Council Animate Award 1992 ’Canntaireachd’ 16mm, sung bagpipe music by Mary Morrison of the island of Barra; Scottish Television, for Canan nan Gaidhael (The Language of the Gaels) documentary programme 1992 ‘Puirt a beul’ 16mm, 'mouth music' (sung dance music); Scottish Television, for Canan nan Gaidhael (The Language of the Gaels) documentary programme 1991 Unknown Woman 16mm, Arts Council/South West Arts 1990 ‘Fanny + Johnny on Acid’ U-Matic video 1990 ‘Nuclear Family’ 16mm, Television South West/South West Arts Film Award 1989 ‘Lighter Hands’ U-Matic video, Electro Acoustic Sound + Moving Image residency, Plymouth Arts Centre 1989 ‘Looks Familiar’ 16mm 1988 ‘Looks Familiar’ 16mm loop (silent), Spacex Arts Centre, Exeter/Exeter Film Workshop 1988 ‘The Internal Voice’ 16mm (silent) 1986 ‘Adult Day Return’ 16mm, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Exhibitions (selected) 2010 The Women's Art Show 2010, Fairfields Arts Centre Basingstoke, UK (27 February - 1 April 2010) 2010 Kinetic Animation curated by Jayne Pilling to complement the Mind Over Matter exhibition at Animated Exeter, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK. Other films include: Patrick Bokanowski’s Solar Beasts (Batterments Solaires) (2007); George Griffin’s Flying Fur (1981); Stuart Hilton’s 6 weeks in June (1998); + Semiconductor’s Magnetic Movie (2007) (13 February 2010) 2010 Finding Place Scott Building, University of Plymouth, UK (3 - 26 February 2010) 2010 Big Screen, The Piazza, Plymouth, UK (12 January - 12 February 2010) 2010 Exchange, Avenue Gallery, University of Northampton, UK. Exhibition by Land/Water + the Visual Arts research group; the second half of a two-way exchange between research groups at The
Universities of Northampton + Plymouth, which saw staff from The
University of Northampton's School of the Arts showing their work concerned with arts + landscape in the Scott Building at Plymouth University late last year (11 - 29 January 2010) 2010 London Short Film Festival programmes Femmes Fantastique (9 January 2010) + Leftfield and Luscious (10 January 2010) Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK 2010 One Minute touring programme of artists' moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry. Art in Unusual Places: "a snapshot of some of the exciting
work being produced by UK artists", presented by Lumen in two media spaces at the
Merrion Centre, Leeds, UK (Screening throughout January
2010); The BAck doOR Melbourne, Australia presented by cogcollective in conjunction with suek-artist (27
February 2010); The Castlefield Gallery Manchester, UK presented by Purescreen (25 March
2010) 2009 AnimateTV Animate Projects presents new films for 2009, introduced by Stuart Comer, Film Curator Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern London, UK (3 December 2009) 2009 Aurora 09: Common Ground Open Projector programme, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK (14 November 2009) 2009 SeaScape an international conference exploring culture as
a regenerative force for coastal communities, part of the Skegness International SEAS festival, Skegness UK (Premiere: 2 October 2009). The film Teign Spirit is viewable at Animate Projects and downloadable from iTunes. 2009 One Minute touring programme of artists' moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry. Hull Big Screen (1 June - 31 July 2009); The Apollo Opening Night Herne Hill, London, UK (4 June 2009); presented by Directors Lounge (Berlin) at Contemporary Art Ruhr c.a.r. 09, Essen, Germany (5 - 7 June 2009); all UK Big Screens (27 July - 2 August); and Half an Hour from Paradise at the Marseille Project Gallery, France (19 - 26 September 2009); PRISM at Bank St Arts Sheffield, (23 October 8pm onwards); the Foyer Gallery, Hull School of Art + Design, UK: see Arts News (9am - 5pm 26th October - 12th November). Read Kerry Baldry on One Minute: Engine talks to artist + curator Kerry Baldry about the One Minute project programmes of sixty-second artists’ films, now showing around the world (22 September 2009). Art in Unusual Places, presented by Lumen in two media spaces at the Merrion Centre, Leeds, UK (launch 3 December, screenings throughout December 2009 to 14 January 2010). 2009 Trace and Transience. Photography, video + painting from Land/Water + the Visual Arts, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK. A reciprocal research collaboration between University of the Arts London + the University of Plymouth. The exhibition in Triangle Space follows 'Between Land + Sea' held at Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth, 2008. (5 - 15 May 2009) 2009 PoetryFilm Party. Hosted by Malgorzata Kitowski, featuring a selection of PoetryFilms on the theme of dream. Curzon Soho Bar, London, UK (22 April 2009) 2009 Animate Projects Film Programme Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) Liepaja + Riga, Latvia (1 + 2 April 2009) 2009 FilmCraft: Framework. Screening in programme “designed to show the relationship between craft + the moving image”, curated + presented by Matt Hulse. Thinking through Craft event, IC: Innovative Craft, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (31 January 2009) 2009 'Films from the Golden West'. Screening at launch event to celebrate the annual Animated Exeter festival’s 10th year, Phoenix, Exeter, UK (14 January 2009) 2008 Artist Cinema: Circle Line. Programme of experimental work by "film artists who have explored fundamental geometric forms, moving away from conventional cinema into realms of abstraction, colour + music." Sallis Benney Theatre, CineCity Brighton Film Festival, UK (Friday 5 December 2008) 2008 Immersion, Scott Building, University of Plymouth, UK (Locate group exhibition in association with Land/Water + the Visual Arts' summer symposium 'Landscape and Beauty', 25 June - 2 July 2008) 2008 Film Circus! Artists’ Films, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (Group exhibition, 10 – 11 May 2008) 2008 Night: A Time Between, artists’ film programme, Royal West of England Academy exhibition, curated by Dr Janette Kerr RWA, Visiting Research Fellow, Bristol School of Art & Design, University of the West of England. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK. (Group exhibition 7 May 2008) 2008 Moving Out, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, UK (Locate group exhibition 5 March 2008) 2008 Artists' film programme, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight, UK (group exhibition 14 Jan 2008) 2007 Strange Screen 6th audiovisual festival of Experimental Video + Creative Documentary, Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece (9 - 13 October 2007) 2007 'Freedom + Dream', presentation of "rare avant-garde film" by PoetryFilm director Malgorzata Kitowski, Tate Britain, London, UK (5 October 2007) 2007 Animate: Extending the Imagination. Film screening dedicated to the memory of Dick Arnall, animation producer + director of animate! (2000 - 2006): a retrospective of "some of the most remarkable works of British animation" since 1990, The Platform International Animation Festival, Northwest Film Center: Whitsell Auditorium/Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA (25 - 30 June 2007). 2007 Extending the Imagination: Dick Arnall + Artist's Animation, introduced by Gareth Evans: "Marking the sudden death of Dick Arnall, founding director of thepioneering Cambridge Animation Festival and for 40 years one ofBritain's most important advocates for innovation and imagination inanimation." Cambridge Picture House, Cambridge, UK (14 April 2007) 2007 'Definitive Stories' screening programme at National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Group exhibition 2007 Moving the Image. Film screening; programme of "short animated films by women from the 1950’s to the present day", Hull Film + Hull Screen, + the Women, Arts + Media Project. University of Lincoln, UK (26 January 2007) 2006 animate! Re-visions: Life Beyond Live Action Aurora: Norwich International Animation Festival, UK. Group exhibition with AL + AL, Phil Mulloy, Ruth Lingford, Tim Macmillan, Ann Course and others. 2006 Numero: Arte E Cultura, Lisboa, Portugal. Group exhibition 2006 Green (Un)Pleasant Land Centre for Contemporary Art in the Natural World, Haldon Forest, Exeter, UK. Group exhibition 2006 'Programa Lux Films', curated by Ian Helliwell, with the support of the British Council, Festival Internacional de Curta-Metragem de São Paulo, Brasil (24 August - 2 September 2006) 2006 Drawn to the Valley Cube3, University of Plymouth, UK Group exhibition. 2006 ‘The New Flesh Incarnate’, in Undercover Surrealism exhibition; presented by animate! + Halloween: "flesh narrative territories + visual forms way beyond the frame-by-frame confines of conventional animation, chosen to reflect Battaile’s obsessions with sex + death – from the outrageous bestialities of COWBOYS through the menstrual visions of CAGE OF FLAME ... to the darkly erotic fetishes of 'exotic' cultures in the Brothers Quay's THE PHANTOM MUSEUM" (programme notes). Upstairs at the Hayward Gallery, South Bank London, UK (Friday 21 July 2006) 2006 Extending the Image Hull Screen University of Lincoln, + Electric Palace Hastings, UK. Group exhibition 2006 'Route Masters: Portraits in Transition' with Iain Sinclair, Tracing the Contours: Portraiture + Place in Contemporary Animation part 2: "how animation uses the moving image to create seductive + sometimesdisturbing portraits of people + communities in flux, where bothidentities + landscape are in the process of change." National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (Thursday 13 April 2006) 2006 Artist's Films from Lux, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich, UK (Saturday 25 March 2006) 2006 Extending the Image 2, Kultur Cine Club, Leeds, UK 2006 Sounds of Images, "special programme ... taking a look at the manifold artistic experiments in sound and image. From the 1920s and 30s to the present, from the early modernist stages of the mechanical reproduction of works of art to the digital age – artist-engineers have always been quick to work with and recontextualise new technology in order to render musical structures visible, and their work left its mark especially on the animated film." (Programme notes). Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany (31 May - 5 June 2006) 2006 Born Free, PSP + cinema screenings, Victoria + Albert Museum, London. (Group exhibition Friday 27 January 2006) 2006 Put Away These Childish Things, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth. Group exhibition 2006 Death to Animation, animate! remix screening; initiative with Dick Arnall. Buzzard Buzzard remixes 'Cage of Flame' + 'Sunset Strip'. Halloween Festival, ICA, London, UK (Sunday 7 January 2006) 2005 Lux Unlocked 2, curated by Ian Helliwell, Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway (June 2005) 2005 verge installation, Salt Gallery, Hayle, Kernow (Solo exhibition with Stuart Moore) 2005 The Naked Animator, Edinburgh Filmhouse, Scotland, UK (Group exhibition Saturday 2 April 2005) 2005 Focus Great Britain 2: British Animation Awards curated by Jayne Pilling, and Festival Specials curated by Doris Cleven, Tricky Women 05, Wien, Austria (culture2culture). (3 - 6 March 2005). Group touring programme: St Polten, Linz, Freistadt, Lenzing, Innsbruck and Feldkirch; and 'Tricky Women: Festivals im Dialog', augartenkino kiz, Diagonale05 festival of Austrian film, Graz, Austria (17 March 2005) 2004 The Naked Animator Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht. Hoogt II (5 November 2004), Camera (7 November 2004) 2004 Blip@Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery. Blip, in association with Newlyn Art Gallery, Arts Council England, Falmouth College of Arts, Digital Peninsula Network, the University of Brighton + the University of Sussex, UK (Group exhibition 26 - 30 October 2004) 2004 wort/wall/water 16mm installation, + other works, Salt Gallery, Hayle, Kernow. (Solo exhibition with Stuart Moore) 2004 Experiments in Moving Image, organised by Dr Jackie Hatfield and Stephen Littman: "a retrospective of experimental moving image including multi-screened and expanded works from the late 1960’s to date." Held at the original Lumiere Cinema, University of Westminster, London, UK (Group exhibition 26 January - 1 February 2004) 2003 Roadshow, Grizedale Arts, with Rêl Institute; touring programme curated by Rêl Institute
and Philip Ilson. Tour: Grizedale Arts,
Grizedale, Cumbria 23 - 25 May; Gallery in the Trees,
Lickey Hills, Birmingham 31 May - 1 June; Rêl
Institute, Blaenau Ffestiniog 6 - 8 June; Duncan of
Jordanstone, Dundee 15 September - 17 October 2003, UK 2002 Gene. Film programme as the opening act before performances by the band. "Sunset Strip at full live gig volume sounded very very impressive" Philip Ilson (curator), Halloween touring programme, UK 2002 tEXt2002, curated by Simon Persighetti. Exeter Phoenix Auditorium, UK. (Group exhibition 9 May 2002) 2002 Przeglad animacji artystycznej z Wielkiej Brytantii, curated by Gary Thomas (Arts Council) + Urszula Sniegowska (KINO.LAB), with the British Council, Poland (25 - 27 October 2002) 2001 Animation: synaesthesia in the experimental animated film, curated by Suzie Hanna. The Norwich Gallery, UK. Group exhibition with Oskar Fischinger, Jeff Keen, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, + Clive Walley (17 October - 10 November 2001) 2001 Filmwaves, Lux Centre, London, UK (Group exhibition Wednesday 11 July 2001) 2001 Best of British, British Council programme, Annecy International Animation Festival, France (4 - 9 June 2001) 2001 Short Film Night, Plough Arts Centre, Torrington, Devon. South West Media Development Agency touring programme, UK (22 April 2001) 2001 Animate, Animac Mostra Internacional de Cinema d'Animació de Catalunya, Spain (2 February 2001) 2001 Celtic Connections at Animated Exeter festival, UK 2001 Blood, Tag/Traum for ZDF/ARTE. Television broadcast, Germany 2000 Brief Encounters Short Film Festival, Watershed, Bristol, UK (19 November 2000) 2000 Animation: A Passionate Obsession, Art Space, Barbican Centre, London, UK. Exhibition with Paul Bush, Oliver Harrison, Simon Pummell. (21 September - 29 October 2000) 2000 'New British Work 2' D-Net, Lux Centre, London, UK (Thursday 19 October 2000) 2000 'Music in May', The British Council and Singapore Film Society under the auspices of The National Arts Council of Singapore, UK2000 Creativity and Innovation touring programme, Singapore (23 - 31 May 2000) 2000 Screenspace, Gallery One, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK. Also included work by Anna Lucas, Joe Magee, Sarah Miles and Tony Sinden (1 - 16 April 2000) 1999 'Wanderlust', curated by Keely Macarow + Susi Allender, Experimenta Media Arts Melbourne, Australia (12 September 1999) 1999 Art + Animation, ICA, London. Group exhibition, UK 1999 Pandaemonium, London Electronic Arts + the Lux Centre, London. Group exhibition, UK 1999 Oslo Animation Festival, Norway (28 April - 2 May 1999) 1999 Abstract Art on Film, London Film Makers’ Co-op + the Lux Centre, London. Group exhibition, UK 1999 Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival, Germany (14 -17 January 1999) 1999 Berlin InterFilm Festival, Germany (8 - 13 December 1998) 1998 TATE (Tough Against the Elements), Hamburg. VJ event at style clothing store launch, Germany 1998 Halloween@Liquid, Leeds. Group exhibition, UK 1998 Kentra, crossover film + music club events at Scala, a collaboration between Halloween + the London Film Festival: "a fusion of nightclub + cinema mixing experimental visuals with sets by leading DJs" (explodingcinema.org/filmgroups.html). Halloween started "the groundbreaking Kentra club night to interact with London’s burgeoning club culture scene of that time, where creative DJs such as Andy Weatherall + Richard Fearless could perform live sets alongside visuals groups and VJs such as Hexstatic + The Light Surgeons." (Philip Ilson 'A pocket history of Halloween: ''the projector with teeth''', 'Locations: 4th Halloween short film festival' in Vertigo No.6 November 2006). UK 1998 Towards a Media Ecology: Rencontres Internationales Art Cinema-Video-Ordinateur, Cinéma des Cinéastes, Paris. Group exhibition curated by Maria Klonaris and Katerina
Thomadaki: "a major international event focusing on the moving
image as visual art. Since 1990, it has been breaking new ground by bringing
together all forms of screen based art, such as film, video and computer
art, and by viewing contemporary art forms through an historical perspective."
France (22 - 22 April 1998) 1998 British Animation Awards: Public Choice, touring programme, UK 1997 Painterly Animation, Tate Gallery, London. Group exhibition, UK 1997 Behind the Sofa, Prema Arts Centre, Uley. Group exhibition, UK 1997 Happy Families?, ICA, London. Group exhibition, UK 1997 Impakt 97 festival, Utrecht; + touring programme, Netherlands 1996 New Work: Interstice: Seen + Unseen, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. London Film-Makers Co-op exhibition, UK (3 August 1996) 1996 ‘The World Within Us’ at Beyond the Margins, Watershed, Bristol. Group exhibition, UK (28 April 1996) 1996 Women Making Movies, British Film Institute touring programme, UK 1996 Pandaemonium: London Festival of Moving Image, London Electronic Arts, ICA, London. Group exhibition, UK 1995 European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. Touring programme 1995-1996, Germany + Hong Kong, including Munchner Filmzentrum (September 2006) 1995 Free Radicals, ICA Projects touring programme, UK 1995 'Alive + Kicking', What You See is What You Get, ICA Biennial touring programme, curated by John Wyver, worldwide. Preview: Walker Art Center, New York 1994 Frame By Frame, Plymouth Arts Centre. Solo exhibition, UK 1994 Potato: A Film + Video Show, chosen by Gary Thomas, Steve Mcintyre + Alison Jacques, Independent Art Space, London. Group exhibition, UK. (23 September - 22 October 1994) 1994 Art into Film, with Stan Brakhage, David Anderson + Mario Cavalli; for Tate's RB Kitaj Retrospective; National Film Theatre, London, UK 1994 Strandline, Plymouth City Museum + Art Gallery. Group exhibition, UK 1994 Peintures Mouvantes, Emulsions Sculptees, Videotheque de Paris. Group exhibition, France 1994 Women in the Director’s Chair, Film Festival, Chicago, USA 1994 English Films + Videos: Programme 7, SDR Stuttgart. Television broadcast, Germany 1994 Hygiene and Hysteria, curated by Ian Rashid + Sarah Turner, London Film Makers’ Co-op touring programme, worldwide 1993 Fourmations, Channel 4. Television broadcast, UK 1993 Animation at the Cutting Edge, London Film Festival, UK 1993 Forces of Nature, Tate Gallery, St Ives. Group exhibition, UK 1993 Animation programme, Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland, UK 1993 Innovations, Cornerhouse, Manchester. Group exhibition, UK 1993 Out of the West, South West Arts touring programme of independent film + video, UK 1993 Arrows of Desire ICA Biennial touring programme, selected by Peter Wollen, worldwide 1992 New British Film-Makers, Tate Gallery, London. Group exhibition, UK 1992 Fourmations, Channel 4. Television broadcast, UK 1992 The Dazzling Image II, produced by Jane Thornburn, Channel 4. Television broadcast, UK 1991 European Media Art Festival Osnabruck; and touring programme 1991-1992, Germany 1991 Women in the Director's Chair 10th anniversary film and video festival, Chicago, USA (7 - 10 March 1991) 1990 Fear, Phantasy and Myth, London Film Festival, London, UK 1990 Getting Animated South West Arts touring programme curated by David Curtis, Senior Film + Video Officer, The Arts Council, UK 1990 Metaphors, Monologues + Landscapes, Film + Video Umbrella touring programme, UK Publications 2008 'White Body' film + research statement in ScreenWork2 the DVD showcase of practice-based doctorial research in screen media - moving image work on film, video and new media platforms; Journal of Media Practice (Vol 9 Issue 3 November 2008). Bristol: Intellect 2008 Drawings and text (x 4 Field Notes notebook pages) ‘The Brothers Quay in Conversation with Suzanne Buchan’ in Proof magazine, Kate Jago (ed.) (Volume 3 Issue 1) (Spring 2008). Parker’s sketchbook drawings of the Quay Brothers at Exeter Picturehouse 16 Feb 2008. Exeter: Portfolio Five. p. 20 2007 Art of Conversation pedagogic research project (online) (author) 2005 Learning companion - a study guide for level 3 learners. Plymouth: Plymouth Learning + Work Partnership, + the 14-19 Pathfinder Project (author; co-designer; production: Sundog Media) 2009 Coastcards: a response to the three films Gareth Gardener, Animate Projects (13 October 2009) (online) 2009 A short guide on Britain animation films, British Girl, San Francisco, CA: HubPages Inc. (online) 2008 'Composers and animators - the creation of interpretive and collaborative vocabularies', Suzie Hanna (2008) in Journal of Media Practice 9 (1) pp. 29 - 41. DOI: 10.1386/jmpr.9.1.29/1 2008 ‘The animation game’ double page illustrated feature on Kayla Parker, Lee Morgan (ed.) Art in Devon magazine (February/March 2008) pp. 16 – 17 2005 Image is everything Esther Johnson (2005) in British artists' film & video study collection (online) 2003 Women's animation: women animators with a distinctive feminine and/or feminist perspective, Ruth Lingford, Screenonline: the definitive guide to Britain's film and tv history. London: BFI 2002 "You might change the way people think": School-cinema partnerships in rural areas (2002) Final Report of The Devon School-Cinema Project 2000-2002. London: bfi Education September 2002 pp. 17 -18; 20 2002 'Beautiful little movers: Ever considered animation?' Annette Ward (2002) in Members newsletter, British Society of Comedy Writers, edition 037 10 April 2002 (online). Available: http://www.bscw.org.uk/members/ezine/037.htm 2001 'Highly Visible' Lois Taylor (Summer 2001) Animated: the community dance magazine. Leicester: BCPublications on behalf of Foundation for Community Dance pp.38 - 40 2001 ‘Highly Visible’ in 365: Year of the Artist in the South West (2001) Bob Butler, Alyson Sarah Hallett + Piers Rawson. Bridport: Agre Books + South West Arts. ISBN 0-9538000-6-7. p. 113 2000 "Using the basic teaching techniques in ART AND DESIGN' (2000) Cary Bazalgette, Wendy Earle, Jenny Grahame, Jill Poppy, Mark Reid and Alastair West (eds.). Moving images in the classroom: a secondary teachers' guide to using film & television. London: British Film Institute ISBN 0 85170 831 5. p. 29 1999 'Animation' Chris Byrne, in Peter Childs and Mike Storry (eds.) (1999) Encyclopaedia of British culture. London: Routledge p. 27. Encyclopaedia on Google books 1999 Animasjon som musikk Rune Kreutz, Animerte dager/Oslo animation festival; published to accompany the Oslo animation festival, Norway 1999 ‘Some unusual suspects – a selection of Animate! Winners’: ‘Cage of Flame’ and ‘Sunset Strip’ film stills and page feature; ‘The complete list of Animate! Films: Year 2 (1991) and Year 5 (1994’); ‘Close up on camera-less animation’ in Art and animation (1999) Gareth Evans + David Curtis. London: Channel 4 Television ISBN 1-85144-244-8. pp. 8; 9; 11; 20 1998 European Media Arts Festival 1998 Andreas Denk in Kunstforum International (Volume 141 p. 362) 1996 ‘British Animation Past and Present’ Pat Raine Webb in Animatoon: world animation journal 6 (2) 1996 pp. 8 - 9. Korea pp. 41 – 42 (Korean translation, illustrated, pp. 36 – 40) 1996 The National Lottery: A Polemic Jill McGreal (1996) in Animation world magazine 1 (8), Animation World Network. Available: http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.8/articles/mcgreal1.8.html 1994 'Mistress of the moving picture' (1994) Frame by Frame exhibition review by Isabel Stott, Evening Herald newspaper. Plymouth: Western Morning News (15 December 1994) 1994 Potato: a film and video show (1994) Gary Thomas, Steve Mcintyre + Alison Jacques. London: Independent Art Space. Published to accompany the exhibition 'Potato: a film and video show'. ISBN: 1898973009 1994 ‘Life and times: Kayla Parker film-maker’ (1994) in Networking: the film, video and television organisation for women newsletter. Leeds: Vera Productions p. 4 1994 'Art into film' (1994) Philip Dodd, Will Bell + Richard Humphreys, Sight and sound special magazine supplement (July 1994). London: British Film Institute 1993 'Unknown Woman' (film frame) in PIX 1 Ilona Halberstadt (ed.) ISSN 0967 8727 1992 ‘Animation in the UK’ in Women and animation: a compendium (1992) Jayne Pilling (ed.). London: British Film Institute ISBN 0-85170-377-1 p. 82. Read René Walling's review in 'Flashback' frames per second July 2005 (online) p. 18 1989 ‘Learning New Technology with Exeter Film and Video Workshop’ report on Arts Council Animateur project at South Dartmoor School, Charlotte Rastan in Arts and schools (1989). London: HMSO, Central Office of Information for Department of Education and Science and the Office of Arts and Libraries pp. 46 - 47 Reports & invited lectures Conferences organised Event presentation, film festival director + curator (selected) 2009 Stop.Watch. collection of artists' animations that explore ecological and environmental themes commissioned by Animate Projects and RSA Arts & Ecology, in association with Arts Council England; and Phil Coy's film Wordland; part of GreenSpace, Peninsula Arts' Darwin celebrations, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, UK (19 November 2009) (co-organiser and presenter) 2009 Aurora Tour 09 Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK (17 November 2009) (co-presenter) 2009 Women in Film event: Dr Bernadette Casey introduces Lynne Ramsay's 'Morvern Callar', Peninsula Arts' 'Best of British' season and Plymouth Summer Festival, Jill Craigie cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth. (28 May 2009) (organiser + presenter) 2009 f-word feminist research symposium, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth. (19 February 2009) (co-organiser) 2008 British Animation Awards: Public Choice, with Peninsula Arts, Jill Craigie cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth 2007 Oddfellows Night, an evening of artists’ film + music at Ker Street Social Club, Devonport, for Plymouth Arts Centre (co-curator) 2002 ‘Alison de Vere Retrospective’ programme for Animated Exeter, Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter (curator + presenter) 2001 Imagination and Spectacle, lecture about artists’ film + video, + programme of short films, Ashburton, Devon, for Aune Head Arts/Arts Council (co-curator + presenter) 1997 ‘Animation from the South West’ programme of short films by independent film-makers of south west Britain, for International Celtic Film and Television Festival, St Ives, Kernow (curator + presenter); 'Animated Language' panel member, with Chris Grace (Sianel Pedwar Cymru), Edward O'Donelly, Alan Esselmont, and Daniel Toudic; the session looked "at how best the medium can serve indigenous cultures and promote minority languages in the face of a digital era of primarily English speaking channels." (Programme notes) (20 March 1997) 1996 'Regional Showcase: Programme 2' at Brief Encounters Festival of Short Films, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol ((curator + presenter) (30 November 1996) 1996 ‘The World Within Us’ programme of animation films by women artists of south west Britain at Beyond the Margins: Celebration of 100 Years of Women in Film Making, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol (curator + presenter) (28 April 1996) START Moving Image cultural screen initiative 2006 Sunday Shorts International Short Film Festival, The Desmond Tutu Centre, University College Plymouth St Mark + St John (UK) (19 November 2006) 2006 ‘PEX06’ Plymouth Exchange programme for Plymouth Independent Film Festival, Massachusetts (US). See The British are Coming Wicked Local Plymouth. 2005 START05 programme of short films by independent film-makers + artists of south west England + Kernow, touring cinemas + screening venues across the south west (UK) 2005 START05 moving image festival, cinema tent in the Place de Brest, Plymouth city centre + Plymouth Arts Centre (UK) 2005 ‘PEX05’ Plymouth Exchange programme at Plymouth Independent Film Festival, Massachusetts (US) 2000 - 2002 START 2000 programme of short films by independent film-makers + artists of south west England + Kernow, touring cinemas + screening venues across the south west 2000 START the Millennium festival, Plymouth Arts Centre + Plymouth College of Art + Design 1999 START Moving Image Festival, Plymouth Arts Centre + Plymouth College of Art + Design 1997 START Moving Image Festival, Plymouth Arts Centre + Plymouth College of Art + Design 1996 START Moving Image Festival, Plymouth Arts Centre + Plymouth College of Art + Design 1995 START Moving Image Festival, Plymouth Arts Centre + Plymouth College of Art + Design 1994 START Moving Image Festival, Plymouth Arts Centre + Plymouth College of Art + Design 1993 START Moving Image Festival, Plymouth Arts Centre + VIPER film + video festival, Luzern, Switzerland Other academic activities
Additional information Engaged Practice and Artist in Residence Projects (selected)
2009 Hidden Harm: Lonely DVD (producer, designer, animator), made in collaboration with The Zone, Plymouth + young people affected by drug + alcohol misuse in their family; commissioned by Plymouth City Council. The DVD is a Sundog Media production and comprises a short animated film 'Lonely: That's How We Feel', which features the personal testimony of six characters, followed by a section in which the characters recommend actions for professionals. Following evaluation by Department for Children, Schools + Families (DCSF), the DVD was rolled out for healthcare professionals' training in September 2009: "a powerful tool as part of training + induction to focus the practitioners' work to include the views of Children + Young People" (Lyndsey Parker + Cathy Lewis, Plymouth Children's Social Care 2009). 2009 The Other CO2 Problem clay animation warning of the dangers of increasing ocean acidification: a collaboration with children + teachers at Ridgeway School, Plymouth; Dr Carol Turley + Helen Findlay of Plymouth Marine Laboratory; Stuart Moore + Sundog Media. Commissioned by EPOCA (European Project on Ocean Acidification); with support from University College Plymouth St Mark + St John, + National Marine Aquarium. Previewed at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, Copenhagen; world premiere at The Royal Institution of Great Britain (20 March 2009). Read articles by Kelvin Boot 'Helping Planet Ocean' in DevonLife; 'The Other CO2 Problem' in PlanetEarth online, Natural Environment Research Council; + 'Plymouth school children + 'The Other CO2 Problem'' in SeaVision UK; plus Kate Herbert's review in the Ecologist (1 September 2009). Winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry Bill Bryson Prize for Science Communication 2009. The film is broadcast as a public service announcement three times a day on Brazilian TV and "the European Geosciences Union liked it so
much they have ordered 10,000 copies for all their members and it will
be part of their education web site." (Dr Carol Turley). The Other CO2 Problem featured in MP Linda Gilroy's speech to parliament on Energy and Climate Change and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on day 4 of the Queen’s Speech debate (24 November 2009). 2008 Mustn't Grumble, consultancy, Young Advisors' DVD presentation, Mount Wise, Plymouth, for Devonport Regeneration Corporation 2008 There 2 Care: The Voice of Young Carers, clay animation about the experiences of children + young people who care for their siblings, parents + other family members, made with young carers + care workers, introduced by Dr Roger Morgan OBE, Children's Rights Director for England, DVD production for The Zone/Plymouth City Council. Winner of the 2009 Media Innovation Award for Collaboration Between Business & Young People. 2008 Our Coast, Our Sea, OUR PLANET! animated film about the effects of ocean warming, made with gifted + talented pupils and staff at Ridgeway School, Plymouth. Winner of EUR-OCEANS' European Schools Film Contest about climate change + ocean ecosystems. 2005 Street Rat animation + live action drama with young people + children in Newton Abbot, Devon, for First Light/UK Film Council. Finalist: First Light Movie Best Screenplay Award 2007 2005 Transitions animation with children at Stoke Damerel Primary School + Stoke Damerel Community College, Creative Partnerships/Arts Council, in association with The Barefoot Project 2005 C-Sound digital photography + animation production with 4 Mount Wise primary schools in Plymouth, with The Barefoot Project, Plymouth Music Zone + Seymour House, for Creative Partnerships/Arts Council 2005 News Flash Osiris animation + film drama production with children at Glen Park Primary School in Plymouth, for Creative Partnerships/Arts Council, in association with The Barefoot Project 2005 Perfect World music video production with ecological message, made in collaboration with BME young people, for Wild Ideas Bristol Natural History Consortium. Nominated for the ‘Panda in the Pocket’ Award, Jury's Special Selection 2006 International Wildscreen Film Festival, Bristol. 2004 It Don’t Matter if You’re Black or White video documentation of BME young people's music + dance event at Plymouth Guildhall 20 June 2004, for Fata He BME Development Plymouth Community Cohesion Facilitation Programme 2004 The Dragons of Barnstaple Bay animation + documentary video production, Newport Community Primary School, Barnstaple north Devon 2003 Rocknose photography + video production with the communities of Downderry + Seaton, south east Cornwall 2003 Countdown animation exploring mathematics with dyslexic students at KEVICC (King Edward VI Community College) Totnes Devon 2003 Look Forward Not Back animation production with deaf young people in Plymouth, in association with the Barefoot Project. Premiere at Plymouth Arts Centre; screened at the Co-op Young Filmmakers' Festival. 2002 Mix in the Sticks animation production with young people, about their take on life in rural Somerset, for First Light/Film Council 2002 Let's Play information video about playcare opportunities, made in collaboration with children, carers, + play-workers, for All Children First, Plymouth City Council 2002 Video Box community consultation at Devonport Regeneration Company Conference, Plymouth 1998 - 2002 Greenlink Environmental Arts Project (documentary artist in residence) Devonport, Plymouth, for Plymouth City Council, South West Arts + the Arts Council 2001 Countdown animated film trailer for The Barn Cinema Dartington, with gifted students at KEVICC (King Edward VI Community College) Totnes, Devon 2001 Air Fusion video documentary project with young people, Newton Abbot, Devon, for Digital Express/Villages in Action 2001 Video Box community consultation at New Deal for Communities conference Devonport, Plymouth 2000 Respect video documentation of annual multi-cultural festival in Plymouth, for Plymouth + District Racial Equality Council 2000 You Are Here site-specific poetry + animation with children at Dolton primary school, about the Tarka Trail cycle path in north Devon, for International Poetry Day at the South Bank Centre, London 2000 The HAZ Channel information video about key health issues in Plymouth, made in collaboration with user groups + stakeholders for Plymouth Health Action Zone + South West Devon Health Authority 1999 Plan for Action video documentary made in collaboration with residents of Mount Wise, Plymouth about the regeneration of their neighbourhood, for Plymouth City Council + Shell Better Britain 1995 Queens 16mm animated poetry with John Agard + children at Heathbrook school Clapham for National Poetry Day, Royal Festival Hall London. Children's Collection, Poetry Library, South Bank Centre. 1992 'Safe Not Sound' film drama (silent) with deaf young people, for the Safe + Sound project, British Film Institute 1990 Fairy Stories animation films on the theme of representations of women, with children at Chew Valley Community College, for Watershed Media Centre, Bristol 1988 Hanging Around 16mm film animations with young people in Ashburton, Devon, Arts Council + British Film Institute Video Animateur Project 1986 Out of Space artist’s residency with Plymouth Arts Centre, 16mm film animation with disadvantaged young people
Design and animation/titles and graphics (selected) 2009 Lonely: That's How We Feel (clay, 2D montage + digital) for Plymouth City Council DVD about the 'hidden harm' agenda, + the experiences of children + young people affected by the use of alcohol + drugs in their family 2008 There 2 Care: The Voice of Young Carers (claymation + cut-out) for Plymouth City Council DVD about the experiences of young children + young people who care for members of their family 2005 Right from the Start (claymation) for Department of Education healthy living information video for parents of pre-school children 2004 Get the Buzz (2D claymation) documentation of summer animation workshop programme for disadvantaged children and young people, for Torbay Council 2004 What on Earth (2D hand-drawn and digital) for family ecology television series, Carlton Westcountry and HTV 2002 Animated Exeter: Schools Week (2D cut-out + digital photography animation) storyboard competition) cinema programme ident for Animated Exeter 2001 Mutley Plain Regeneration Initiative (2D digital) web graphics, for Plymouth City Council + South West Arts 1999 'Interior Décor' CD-ROM ('Mr. Brush' + 'Painter Man' 2D hand-drawn + digital animations), for Adapt through RATIO EU-funded project, Plymouth College of Art + Design 1998 Cadle’s Quest (2D hand-drawn with chroma-key) for history television series, ITV Westcountry 1998 That Sunday Feeling (2D hand-drawn + watercolour) for family television series, ITV Westcountry 1997 Sing Out (2D hand-drawn + watercolour) for choral music television series, HTV West 1996 Floyd on Africa (2D hand-drawn + frottage) for Keith Floyd cookery television series, BBC2 1993 Birthday People (2D hand-drawn + Karismacolor crayon) for children’s television series, Westcountry 1991 Tongue & Groove (2D hand-drawn + 16mm direct animation) for youth lifestyle television series, Television South West 1991 Skillnet Southwest: A Networking Approach to Film, Video and TV Training research report (author: Penny Florence) Plymouth: BFI + South West Arts 1988 - 1990 Out of the Box (2D hand-drawn, oil pastel + painted Russian dolls) for arts television series 1 + 2, Television South West Artist's workshops + practice-based CPD events for professionals (selected) 2009 Drawn to be Wild II. Artist's workshop for families with children aged 5 - 9 years. Drawing + animation on the theme of evolution, Plymouth Arts Centre. Part of The Animal Gaze exhibition programme for Darwin200, celebrating Charles Darwin and ‘On the Origin of Species’ (28 March 2009) 2009 Drawn to be Wild. Artist’s workshop for families with younger children; experimental drawing and animation. Plymouth Arts Centre. Part of The Animal Gaze exhibition programme for Darwin200, celebrating Charles Darwin and ‘On the Origin of Species’ (21 February 2009) 2008 'Crossing the Line' experimental drawing and animation workshop for families, part of The Big Draw national programme, Plymouth Arts Centre (for Tom Dale exhibition) (25 October 2008) 2008 'Disruptive Behaviour' experimental drawing and animation wokshop for artists, part of The Big Draw national programme, Plymouth Arts Centre (for Tom Dale exhibition) (18 October 2008) 2008 Light Moves artist’s animation drawing workshop for families, (zoetrope, pixillation, and hand-drawn), Plymouth Arts Centre (for Estrategia exhibition) (29 May 2008) 2007 ‘Move It! Move It!’ artist’s talk: intuitive intervention in sequential photographic film imagery, and workshop: experimental animated drawing for artists, part of The Big Draw national programme, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art + Design (2 November 2007) 2007 Animation Art day exploring physical (16mm + 35mm film) + digital image-making for Foundation Studies students, Bridgwater College, Somerset (May 2007) 2007 Optical Organic animation + film master class in physical + digital image-making for artists + creative practitioners at the Centre for Contemporary Art + the Natural World, Haldon Forest, Exeter (February 2007) 2005 The Physical Image digital + 16mm direct animation workshops for educators + post-graduate art students at Plymouth College of Art + Design, for Creative Steps, University College Falmouth (7 July 2005) 2005 ‘Digital Quest’ outdoor digital photography and animation workshops for educators and post-graduate artists at Green Space Blue Sky conference, Port Eliot, Cornwall, for Creative Partnerships with the Eden Project (May 2005) 2004 - 2005 ‘Get Animated!’ workshops at the Animated Exeter festival, for Dartington Arts with Exeter City Council 2004 ‘Get Animated’ workshops for children and teachers from Devon and Cornwall) at Screen 2004 for Plymouth Media Partnership + Creative Partnerships (December 2004, at TR2 Plymouth) 2004 INSET animation training for Plymouth teachers + educators, Creative Partnerships/Arts Council (October 2004) 2003 - 2004 ‘ Get Animated!’ summer workshops for disadvantaged young people, for EU-funded Get the Buzz programme, Torbay Council Devon 2003 INSET video animation training for Devon teachers, Paignton, for Devon Arts in Schools Initiative (DAISI) 2002 - 2003 Get Animated! workshop programme for children in rural Devon, for Digital Express/Villages in Action (Okehampton, Holne, Dartington, and Widewell) 2000 - 2003 'Get Animated!' workshops at Animated Exeter festival for Exeter City Council 2000 ‘Super Bugs and Scary Monsters’ animation workshops, Dartington Arts, Devon, for Drawn to be Wild programme, British Film Institute
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