Kayla Parker

Teaching interests
Artists’ moving image, avant-garde and experimental film, animation arts (history, culture, theory and practice), technologies of pre-cinema and early cinema, modalities of feminist practice in moving image and creative media, environmental arts and sense of place, professional practice and research ethics in arts and humanities.
 

Research interests
My research as an artist film-maker is focused on subjectivity and place, embodiment and technological mediation, from feminist perspectives. Current research examines the interface between animated and live action media, and space-time relationships in animation. I collaborate with others on multidisciplinary projects that investigate subjectivities and sense of place, with a particular interest in expanded and 360 cinema.

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Skype: kayla_kp
 

UoP Research group membership

Other research
Collaborative practice-as-research in partnership with Stuart Moore and Sundog Media
Research outputs are realised as moving image with sound, and are disseminated at screenings and other presentations, via Blu-ray and DVD distribution and online.

360 cinema
For ICCI (Innovation for the Creative and Cultural Industries) with Plymouth University:
2012 Welcome to the Treasuredome exhibition of artists' moving image, curated for ICCI and Maritime Mix - the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme in the South West, Weymouth (10 and 11 August 2012); funding by Creative England
2011 Teign Spirit 360 presented in the ICCI 360 Arena during the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Open Weekend in Weymouth (22 - 24 July 2011)
2010 Nectar explored the contrasting spatial affects of the Burrator Arboretum, experienced through the foraging of solitary honeybees, with the intense activity in and around the hive; commissioned by ICCI as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme in the South West, presented at the ICCI 360 Festival, Plymouth (13 - 18 September 2010); funding by South West Screen
2010 Verge 360 screened during IDA 360: Immersive Experimental Week at University of Plymouth (18 February 2010)

Environmental research
2011 Cinematic City HD film about the post-war architecture of Plymouth city centre, in which audio from mid-1980s regional television programmes underscores twenty first century views captured by the camera during the summer of 2011. Directed, filmed and edited by Stuart Moore; produced by Kayla Parker. Commissioned by Plymouth Arts Centre, with funding by South West Screen and Arts Council England.
2009 The Other CO2 Problem explored the impacts of ocean acidification; with Plymouth Marine Laboratory and Ridgeway School; for EPOCA (European Project on Ocean Acidification). Winner of the 2009 Bill Bryson Prize for Science Communication awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
2005 Perfect World focused on ecological vulnerabilities caused by human development; commissioned by Bristol Natural History Consortium for the Wild Ideas project; made possible by the Inspire SW programme, jointly funded by the South West Regional Development Agency and the European Union.

Sustainability research
For Plymouth City Council:
2009 Hidden Harm project explored the adverse effects of parental or carer substance misuse on children and young people, including generational impacts; with young carer workers at The Zone, Plymouth. The Ofsted report on Plymouth City Council praised the work as "a powerful training DVD for professionals reflecting (the) first hand experiences and thoughts" of children and young people. (Care Quality Commission, Ofsted 2010: Inspection of safeguarding and looked after children's services).
2008 There 2 Care project focused on the experiences of young carers; with young carer workers at The Zone, Plymouth. Winner of the 2009 Media Innovation Award: Collaboration between Business and Young People.
For South and West Devon Health Authority:
2000 The HAZ Channel project investigated 6 key health and wellbeing issues for the city of Plymouth; with service users, healthcare providers and stakeholders; part of Plymouth HAZ (Health Action Zone). 

Grants & contracts

AWARDS, GRANTS & COMMISSIONS selected
2012 Research award from the Centre for Media, Art and Design Research (MADr) with Plymouth University, for STITCH, 16mm film-sewing performance and HD film.

2012 ICCI commission, Welcome to the Treasuredome artists' moving image festival, for Maritime Mix - London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the Sea programme, Weymouth (with Stuart Moore); funded by Creative England.

2011 Cinema City Artists' Moving Image Award for Cinematic City, a Sundog Media production directed, filmed and edited by Stuart Moore; and produced by Kayla Parker; for Plymouth Arts Centre, funded by South West Screen and Arts Council England.

2010 Research award from MADr: the Centre for Media, Art and Design Research at University of Plymouth, for Brighton Road Movie.

2010 ICCI Award as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme in the South West, for the 360 film Nectar (with Stuart Moore).

2010 Research award from MADr: the Centre for Media, Art and Design Research at University of Plymouth, for Measure.

2010 Media Innovation Award: Independent Film for Sea Front, a Sundog Media production directed, filmed and edited by Stuart Moore; and produced by Kayla Parker

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)

2009 Media Innovation Award: Collaboration between Business + Young People for There 2 Care: The Voice of Young Carers; a Sundog Media production with young people at The Zone, Young Carers Project, Plymouth

2008 Research award, Plymouth College of Art and Design, for 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 First Light Movies/The UK Film Council

2005 RIFE Lottery Award, South West Screen

2004 Wild Ideas, Bristol Natural History Consortium and Innovations South West, SWERDA

2004 no.w.here, London

2003 Awards for All Project Award, the Barefoot Project and the National Lottery

2002 Living City Project Award, Plymouth Arts Centre, South West Arts and the National Lottery

2001 Filmwaves, LUX, London

2001 Dartmoor Lives and Landscapes, Aune Head Arts, Princetown, Devon

2000 Miniature Film, Poetry International, Royal Festival Hall

2000 Women of Achievement Award (Nominated: finalist)

2000 TX 2000, Film Production Award, South West Media Development Agency and Carlton Broadcasting

2000 Year of the Artist Project Award, South West Arts

1999 Film and 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 and National Lottery

1997 Awards for All Project Award, National Lottery

1997 The Award for Outstanding Contribution to Art, from the City of Plymouth

1996 Film and Video Art Production Award, the Arts Council

1994 Animated Poem, Poetry International, Royal Festival Hall

1994 Animate! Award, the Arts Council and Channel 4

1994 Production Projects Fund Award, British Film Institute

1993 Film and Video Production Award, South West Arts

1993 One Minute Television, Arts Council and BBC2’s The Late Show

1993 The Dick Award (Nominated: finalist)

1993 Cinewomen Award (Nominated: Highly Commended)

1991 Canan nan Gaidhael (The Language of the Gael), Scottish TV

1991 Animate! Award, the Arts Council and Channel 4

1990 Artists’ Film, Video and Broadcasting Award, the Arts Council

1990 Award of Merit, Cork Film Festival

1989 Television South West and South West Arts Film Award

1988 Film and Video Award, South West Arts

Creative practice & artistic projects

FILMOGRAPHY selected artistic works
2012 Yessling Super 8mm film (producer)
2012 STITCH 16mm film-sewing performance, with HD film and photographic documentation
2012 These Restless Hands HD film, digital animation (loop, silent)

2011 Cinematic City HD film (producer)
2011 Flora* 35mm film, direct animation

2010 Brighton Road Movie: First Run* 16mm film
2010 Nectar* 360 film with surroundsound
2010 Verge 360* 360 film digital re-master of dual-screen Super 16mm animation Verge stepped clockwise through 5 projections, with surroundsound
2010 Glass HD film, stop-motion macro and micro-photography

2009 Sea Front Super 8mm film (producer)
2009 Teign Spirit* HD film; an Animate Projects commission for the Sea Change initiative of CABE, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
2009 Twenty Foot Square* HD timelapse and stop-motion micro-photography
2009 Verge: Nocturne* Super 16mm film

2008 Heirloom Super 16mm film (loop)
2008 White Body digital film, stop-motion animation; gallery installation as floor projection (loop) (silent); 2009 single screen digital film, with sound design, 1 minute
2008 Hold Super 16mm film loop (silent) (b+w); Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth
2008 Resubjection 16mm drawing and projection performance (b+w)

2007 Small World* HD film, commissoned by Stephen Littman University for the Creative Arts and Peter Richardson University of Dundee, and New Moves International 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 film (silent), with triptych of photographs printed from 16mm film frames

2005 Verge* Super 16mm film (diptych), installation [DVD]; commission Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall

2004 A Short Walk* one minute 16mm film, for no.w.here launch London
2004 Wort / Wall / Water* 16mm film (triptych), installation [from DVD] (silent)

2002 Life in the Bus Lane* DV film (site-specific installation on urban screens, Plymouth city centre: Panasonic store, Debenhams and other locations); commissioned by Plymouth Arts Centre

2001 Inner City DV film (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 digital embroidery (loop), for Aune Head Arts

2000 Walking Out 16mm film, for Arts Council/South West Arts

1997 Project* DV film (Super 8mm and BetaSP), for Lux launch, National Lottery/London Filmmakers' Co-op

1996 Sunset Strip 35mm film, Channel 4/Arts Council Animate Award

1994 Elemental* Super 8mm film, Plymouth City Museum and Art Galley commission for Strandline exhibition
1994 As Yet Unseen 16mm film; also exhibited as gallery installation (life-size animation set with artefacts and video loop in fireplace, and set of large photographic prints made from 16mm film frames), for BFI Production

1993 Night Sounding 16mm film, One Minute Television for BBC2's The Late Show (BBC and Arts Council)

1992 Cage of Flame 16mm film, Channel 4/Arts Council Animate Award
1992 ’Canntaireachd’ 16mm film, sung bagpipe music by Mary Morrison of the island of Barra; Scottish Television, for Canan nan Gaidheal (The Language of the Gaels) documentary programme
1992 ‘Puirt a beul’ 16mm film, 'mouth music' (sung dance music); Scottish Television, for Canan nan Gaidheal (The Language of the Gaels) documentary programme

1991 Unknown Woman 16mm film, for Arts Council/South West Arts

1990 Fanny and Johnny on Acid* U-Matic video
1990 Nuclear Family 16mm film, for Television South West/South West Arts Film Award

1989 Lighter Hands U-Matic video, for Electro Acoustic Sound and Moving Image residency, Plymouth Arts Centre

1988 Looks Familiar 16mm film loop (silent), Spacex Arts Centre, Exeter/Exeter Film Workshop; 1989 16mm film with sound
1988 The Internal Voice 16mm film (silent)

1986 Adult Day Return 16mm film, for Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

* collaborative moving image artworks with film-maker and sound artist Stuart Moore

EXHIBITIONS selected
2013
One Minute international collections of artists' moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry:
20 - 21 Visual Arts Centre Scunthorpe (volumes 3 and 4, 19 -20 July; volumes 5 and 6, 11 - 12 October 2013)
Hong Kong Contemporary, The Excelsior, Hong Kong (volume 6, 24 - 27 May 2013)
Magmart International Video Art Festival, CAM, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, near Naples, Italy (volume 6, 4 May 2013)
Furtherfield Gallery, London (volumes 3 and 4, 26 - 27 January; volumes 5 and 6, 2 - 3 February)

2012
Light and Shade curated by KINO 10, The Public, West Bromwich (7 November 2012 - 3 February 2013)

One Minute volume 6 international touring programme of artists' moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry:
Museum of Club Culture, Hull (24 November)
Aid & Abet, Cambridge (25 October - 10 November 2012)
One Day Wonder(ment) Alexandra Park, Manchester; screening in Alexandra Arts' pedal-powered cinema (30 September 2012)
The London Underground Film Sessions, The Horse Hospital, London (premiere, 27 September 2012)

A Voyage through Animation presented by Whirlygig Cinema, with a new score created and played live at the screening by the Cabinet of Living Cinema; The Yard Theatre, Hackney Wick, London; for the Scala Beyond season (16 September 2012)

Marine Screen outdoor cinema screening presented by Plymouth Arts Centre and curated by Anna Navas for Marine City Festival, Royal William Yard, Plymouth (15 September 2012)

Welcome to the Treasuredome artists' moving image festival presented in a 360 degree cinema, for Maritime Mix - London 2012 Cultural Olympiad in the South West, Weymouth (10 and 11 August)

Move on Up presented by Animate Projects at Canary Wharf Screen, Canary Wharf station, London. ”Move on Up ... is a selection of dynamic, exciting, uplifting, provocative and beautiful films made by animation artists in the UK over last 20 years ... The films ... use a wide range of techniques and styles to explore ideas of place - creating new worlds, or making us look differently at the world we already know. Many of the films explore London itself, but we also take trips to the seaside and to the sun.” (1 June to 26 August 2012) Watch Canary Wharf Screen trailer
'Move on Up' collection presented also at Arnolfini, Bristol, for Animated Encounters (21 September 2012); Bournemouth Arts by the Sea, in the Vintage Mobile Cinema and in the Bandstand (29 September 2012); and Aid & Abet Cambridge (27 October 2012).

Animasivo festival, ‘Making Time’ programme: “Selección de cortos que exploran las formas en que los artistas utilizan la animación para manipular el tiempo”, Poplar University Museum, Mexico City (14 to 20 May 2012)

Manifestations of Place postgraduate research by Lu La Buzz, Gabrielle Llewellin, Kayla Parker and Yan Preston, Scott Building, Plymouth University (14 to 23 March 2012)

One Minute volume 5 international touring programme of artists' moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry:
The One Minutes exhibition at Redfern Warehouse, 13 Gibbons Street, Redfern New South Wales, Australia. The One Minute collections volumes 3, 4 and 5 presented by Virginia Hilyard and Peloton Gallery (4 - 26 April 2012)
DL8 the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, the festival for contemporary media and film, Berlin, Germany (15 February 2012)
Artist Cine Club FACT, Liverpool (25 January 2012)

2011
One Minute volume 5 international touring programme of artists' moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry:
The Void Cinema, Sheffield Hallam University (8 December 2011)
Vertical Cinema, Cardiff (28 November 2011)
The One Minutes exhibition at Peloton Gallery Sydney Australia. Presentation of the One Minute collections volumes 3, 4 and 5 (24 November - 17 December 2011)
GLIMMER International Short Film Festival, Hull (8 October 2011)
The London Underground Film Sessions curated by Robert W. Monk and presented by David Sharkey; the Horse Hospital, London (17 August 2011)
Aid & Abet Cambridge (premiere: 15 July 2011)

Art in Large Doses Paintings in Hospitals annual summer exhibition, Menier Gallery, London (27 July - 12 August 2011)

Spiritus Sancti and Ghost Radio programme at Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, BAFTA, London. Programme of 4 films screened to celebrate the "analogue and the supernatural", presented by London Short Film Festival and Artherz (24 July 2011)

Listen! Soundwaves Festival Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton. Shorts a la Carte programme of 8 films, screened 'silently' while each member of the audience curates their own soundtrack 'live'. Presented by London Short Film Festival (17 July 2011)

Plymouth Arts Centre’s Mobile Cinema, at various locations around Plymouth; 7 films in the Sensing Place programme, with 2 films from the 1950s. Thanks to Anna Navas and Bryony Gillard (4 - 8 July 2011)

Fest Anca, City Theatre Zilina, Bratislava, Slovac Republic (2 July 2011)

Melbourne International Animation Festival, Cinema 1, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia (24 June 2011)

VIS Vienna Independent Shorts, Animate Projects: Marking Time programme, International Short Film Festival, Vienna, Austria (30 May 2011)

COLLECT 2011 annual contemporary craft fair, Hands On programme, the Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (7 May 2011)

Animate Retrospective programme at Animateka, curated by Animateka Festival Programme Director, Igor Prassel; Slovenian Cinemateque Ljubljana, Slovenia (22 and 23 April 2011)

One Minute volume 4 international touring programme of artists' moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry:
The first of the London Underground Film Sessions, presented by Robert Monk and David Sharkey at The Horse Hospital London, UK (6 April 2011)
Flatpack and Fierce Festival, presented by VIVID Birmingham, UK (23 March 2011)
The Museum of Club Culture Hull, UK (5 February 2011)

Crafty Animators exhibition, Thelma Hulbert Gallery Honiton, UK (15 January - 5 March 2011)

Making Tracks presented by Whirlygig Cinema and the Cabinet of Living Cinema:
Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham (3 June 2011)
Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London (20 May 2011)
London Short Film Festival Live Event Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London (14 January 2011)

Shorts a la Carte London Short Film Festival Special Event, Inamo Restaurant Soho, London, UK (9 January 2011)

2010
Hand Eye Visions: the films of Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore Cine-City the Brighton Film Festival, Lighthouse, Brighton, UK (27 November 2010)

Animated Encounters AnimateTV, Arnolfini's Dark Studio, Bristol, UK (18 and 21 November 2010)

Abertoir Short Film Competition Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru, UK (13 November 2010)

Brisbane International Film Festival Animate Retrospective, curated by Malcolm Turner, Australia (6 and 10 November 2010) 

Visions in the Nunnery exhibition, the Nunnery Gallery, London, UK (2 - 17 October 2010)

Haifa International Film Festival Start Making Sense programme presented by Animate Projects for The British Council; Haifa, Israel (23 - 30 September 2010)

ICCI 360 Festival the Piazza, Plymouth, UK (14 - 18 September 2010)

public//domain a festival of digital art, music, interaction and screenings, Lower Gardens, Bournemouth, UK (16 - 18 July 2010)

Village Screen: Screen Two - Film at the Glastonbury Festival, UK (23 - 25 June 2010)

The Purpose of Drawing exhibition curated by Patrick Lowry and Jacqui Knight, Cube Gallery, University of Plymouth, UK. The Purposes of Drawing (7 June - 2 July 2010)

The Falmouth Convention Annexinema film programme, The Poly cinema, Falmouth, Kernow, UK (22 May 2010)

One Minute volume 4 international touring programme of artists' moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry:
Kinofest, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Romania (3 - 7 November 2010)
Plymouth Arts Centre (19 October 2010)
Stew Gallery, Norwich (18 October 2010)
Future Proof, Marseille (18 September 2010)
Ukranian Art Festival, Koktebel, Ukraine (7 - 9 September 2010)
All UK Big Screens throughout August 2010
Presented by Directors Lounge Contemporary Media and Art at C.A.R. (Contemporary Art Ruhr) Essen (2 - 4 July 2010) and Meinblau Berlin, Germany (4 June 2010)
Presented by PRISM at S1 Artspace Sheffield (14 May 2010)
Moors Bar Crouch End, London, UK (premiere: 6 May 2010, then screening all weekend as part of Crouch End Open Studios 8 and 9 May 2010)

Spring Screen: Artists' Film at Spacex, Exeter, UK (30 April 2010)

The Women's Art Show 2010 exhibition Fairfields Arts Centre Basingstoke, UK (27 February - 1 April 2010)

Experiment Week: IDA 360 (Immersive Digtal Arena); Igloo Vision and ICCI (Innovation for the Creative and Cultural Industries), University of Plymouth (15 - 19 February 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); and Semiconductor’s Magnetic Movie (2007) (13 February 2010).

Finding Place Scott Building, University of Plymouth, UK (3 - 26 February 2010) BBC Devon: Plymouth exhibition focuses on time, place and memory (12 February 2010)

Big Screen, Piazza, Plymouth, UK (12 January - 12 February, and through March 2010)

Exchange, Avenue Gallery, University of Northampton, UK. Exhibition by Land/Water and the Visual Arts research group; the second half of a two-way exchange between research groups at The Universities of Northampton and Plymouth, which saw staff from The University of Northampton's School of the Arts showing their work concerned with arts and landscape in the Scott Building at Plymouth University late last year (11 - 29 January 2010).

London Short Film Festival programmes Femmes Fantastique (9 January 2010) and Leftfield and Luscious (10 January 2010) Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK

One Minute volume 3 touring programme of artists' moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry:
PureScreen at The Castlefield Gallery Manchester, UK (25 March 2010)
The BAck doOR presented by cogcollective in conjunction with suek-artist, Melbourne, Australia (27 February 2010)
Art in Unusual Places presented by Lumen: "a snapshot of some of the exciting work being produced by UK artists", the Merrion Centre, Leeds, UK (3 December 2009 - 14 January 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)

Aurora 09: Common Ground Open Projector programme, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK (14 November 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.

One Minute volume 3 international touring programme of artists' moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry:
Art in Unusual Places, presented by Lumen at the Merrion Centre, Leeds, UK (3 December 2009 - 14 January 2010)
The Foyer Gallery, Hull School of Art and Design, UK (26th October - 12th November)
PRISM at Bank St Arts Sheffield, (23 October 2009)
Half an Hour from Paradise at the Marseille Project Gallery, France (19 - 26 September 2009)
All UK Big Screens (27 July - 2 August)
Presented by Directors Lounge (Berlin) at Contemporary Art Ruhr c.a.r. 09, Essen, Germany (5 - 7 June 2009)
The Apollo Opening Night Herne Hill, London, UK (4 June 2009)
Hull Big Screen (1 June - 31 July 2009)

Trace and Transience. Photography, video and painting from Land/Water and the Visual Arts, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK. A reciprocal research collaboration between University of the Arts London and the University of Plymouth. The exhibition in Triangle Space follows the 'Between Land and Sea' exhibition held at Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth, 2008. (5 - 15 May 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)

Animate Projects Film Programme Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) Liepaja and Riga, Latvia (1 + 2 April 2009)

FilmCraft: Framework. Screening in programme “designed to show the relationship between craft and the moving image”, curated and presented by Matt Hulse. Thinking through Craft event, IC: Innovative Craft, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (31 January 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 and music." Sallis Benney Theatre, CineCity the Brighton Film Festival, UK (5 December 2008)

Immersion, Scott Building, University of Plymouth, UK (Locate group exhibition in association with Land/Water and the Visual Arts' summer symposium 'Landscape and Beauty', 25 June - 2 July 2008)

Film Circus! Artists’ films at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (10 – 11 May 2008)

Night: A Time Between: Artists’ Film, Royal West of England Academy exhibition, curated by Dr Janette Kerr RWA, Visiting Research Fellow, Bristol School of Art and Design, University of the West of England. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK. (7 May 2008)

Moving Out, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, UK (Locate group exhibition 5 March 2008)

Artists' film, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight, UK (14 Jan 2008)

2007
Strange Screen 6th audiovisual festival of Experimental Video and Creative Documentary, Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece (9 - 13 October 2007)

Freedom and Dream presentation of "rare avant-garde film" by PoetryFilm director Malgorzata Kitowski, Tate Britain, London, UK (5 October 2007)

Animate: Extending the Imagination. Film screening dedicated to the memory of Dick Arnall, animation producer and 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).

Extending the Imagination: Dick Arnall and Artist's Animation, introduced by Gareth Evans: "Marking the sudden death of Dick Arnall, founding director of the pioneering Cambridge Animation Festival and for 40 years one of Britain's most important advocates for innovation and imagination in animation." Cambridge Picture House, Cambridge, UK (14 April 2007)

National Review of Live Art Definitive Stories screening programme, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Moving the Image programme of "short animated films by women from the 1950’s to the present day", Hull Film and Hull Screen, and the Women, Arts and 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.

Numero: Arte E Cultura Lisboa, Portugal. Group exhibition

Green (Un)Pleasant Land Centre for Contemporary Art in the Natural World (CCANW), Haldon Forest Exeter, UK. Group exhibition

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)

Drawn to the Valley Cube Gallery, University of Plymouth, UK Group exhibition.

The New Flesh Incarnate Artists' film: Undercover Surrealism exhibition; presented by animate! + Halloween: "flesh narrative territories and visual forms way beyond the frame-by-frame confines of conventional animation, chosen to reflect Battaile’s obsessions with sex and 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 (21 July 2006)

Extending the Image Hull Screen University of Lincoln, and Electric Palace Hastings, UK. Group exhibition

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 and sometimes disturbing portraits of people and communities in flux, where both identities and landscape are in the process of change." National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (13 April 2006)

Artist's Films from Lux, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich, UK (25 March 2006)

Extending the Image 2, Kultur Cine Club, Leeds, UK

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)

Born Free, Sony PSP and cinema screenings, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (27 January 2006)

Put Away These Childish Things, Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth. Group exhibition

Death to Animation animate! remix screening; initiative with Dick Arnall. Buzzard Buzzard remixes Cage of Flame and Sunset Strip. Halloween Festival, ICA, London, UK (7 January 2006)

2005
Lux Unlocked 2, curated by Ian Helliwell, Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway (June 2005)

Verge installation, Salt Gallery, Hayle, Kernow (Solo exhibition with Stuart Moore)

The Naked Animator Edinburgh Filmhouse, Scotland, UK (2 April 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)

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 and the University of Sussex, UK (26 - 30 October 2004)

Stuart Moore & Kayla Parker, 16mm triptych installation Wort/Wall/Water and other works including Project, Night Sounding, and Sunset Strip (with 35mm artwork shown on lightbox) Salt Gallery, Hayle, Kernow (Solo exhibition with Stuart Moore July - August 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 (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

tEXt2002, curated by Simon Persighetti. Exeter Phoenix Auditorium, UK (9 May 2002)

Przeglad animacji artystycznej z Wielkiej Brytantii curated by Gary Thomas (Arts Council) and 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, and Clive Walley (17 October - 10 November 2001)

MUTELOOPS Lux Centre, London, UK (11 July 2001)

Best of British British Council programme, Annecy International Animation Festival, France (4 - 9 June 2001)

Animate, Animac Mostra Internacional de Cinema d'Animació de Catalunya, Spain (2 February 2001)

Celtic Connections at Animated Exeter festival, UK

Blood, Tag/Traum for ZDF/ARTE. Television broadcast, Germany

2000
Brief Encounters Short Film Festival, Watershed, Bristol, UK (19 November 2000)

Animation: A Passionate Obsession Art Space, Barbican Centre, London, UK. Exhibition with Paul Bush, Oliver Harrison, Simon Pummell. (21 September - 29 October 2000)

D-Net New British Work 2 Lux Centre, London, UK (19 October 2000)

Music in May UK2000 Creativity and Innovation touring programme, The British Council and Singapore Film Society under the auspices of The National Arts Council of Singapore, Singapore (23 - 31 May 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 and Susi Allender, Experimenta Media Arts Melbourne, Australia (12 September 1999)

Art and Animation ICA, London. Group exhibition, UK

Pandaemonium London Electronic Arts and the Lux Centre, London. Group exhibition, UK

Oslo Animation Festival, Norway (28 April - 2 May 1999)

Abstract Art on Film, London Film Makers’ Co-op and the Lux Centre, London. Group exhibition, UK

Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival, Germany (14 -17 January 1999)

Berlin InterFilm Festival, Germany (8 - 13 December 1998)

1998
TATE (Tough Against the Elements) VJ event at style clothing store launch, Hamburg, Germany

Halloween@Liquid, Leeds. Group exhibition, UK

Kentra crossover film and music club events at Scala, a collaboration between Halloween and 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 and Richard Fearless could perform live sets alongside visuals groups and VJs such as Hexstatic and 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

Towards a Media Ecology: Rencontres Internationales Art Cinema-Video-Ordinateur, Cinéma des Cinéastes 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." Paris, France (22 - 22 April 1998)

British Animation Awards: Public Choice touring programme, UK

1997
Painterly Animation Tate Gallery, London. Group exhibition, UK

Behind the Sofa Prema Arts Centre, Uley. Group exhibition, UK

Happy Families?, ICA, London. Group exhibition, UK

Impakt 97 festival, Utrecht; and touring programme, Netherlands

1996
New Work: Interstice: Seen and Unseen exhibition, curated by London Film Makers' Co-op for Whitechapel Art Gallery, London UK (3 August 1996)

Beyond the Margins The World Within Us programme, Watershed, Bristol. Group exhibition, UK (28 April 1996)

Women Making Movies British Film Institute touring programme, UK

Pandaemonium: London Festival of Moving Image London Electronic Arts at ICA, London. Group exhibition, UK

1995
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. Touring programme 1995-1996, Germany and Hong Kong, including Munchner Filmzentrum (September 2006)

Free Radicals ICA Projects touring programme, UK

What You See is What You Get Programme One: Alive and Kicking ICA Biennial international touring programme, curated by John Wyver. Preview: Walker Art Center, New York

1994
Frame By Frame, Plymouth Arts Centre. Solo exhibition, UK

Potato: A Film and Video Show chosen by Gary Thomas, Steve Mcintyre and Alison Jacques, Independent Art Space, London. Group exhibition, UK. (23 September - 22 October 1994)

Art into Film, with Stan Brakhage, David Anderson and Mario Cavalli; for Tate's RB Kitaj Retrospective; National Film Theatre, London, UK

Strandline, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. Group exhibition, UK

Peintures Mouvantes, Emulsions Sculptees Videotheque de Paris. Group exhibition, France

Women in the Director’s Chair, Film Festival, Chicago, USA

English Films and Videos: Programme 7, SDR Stuttgart. Television broadcast, Germany

Hygiene and Hysteria curated by Ian Rashid and Sarah Turner, London Film Makers’ Co-op international touring programme of artists' film

1993
Four-Mations Channel 4. Television broadcast, UK

Animation at the Cutting Edge London International Film Festival, UK

Forces of Nature Tate Gallery, St Ives. Group exhibition, UK

Edinburgh Film Festival Animation programme, Scotland, UK

Innovations Cornerhouse, Manchester. Group exhibition, UK

Out of the West, South West Arts touring programme of independent film and video, UK

Arrows of Desire ICA Biennial international touring programme, selected by Peter Wollen

1992
New British Film-Makers Tate Gallery, London. Group exhibition, UK

Four-Mations Channel 4. Television broadcast, UK

The Dazzling Image II produced by Jane Thornburn, Channel 4. Television broadcast, UK

Publications

Book chapter
2013 'Jamming the machine: the personal-political in Annabel Nicolson's Reel Time' [chapter] in Rebecca Emmett (ed.) The Arts in popular culture in history: proceedings of The Role of Arts in History cross-disciplinary conference. Plymouth: Plymouth University Press (UPP). 

2012 With Liam French and Stuart Moore ‘Moving image production and the pedagogical development of media literacy’ [chapter] in Maher Bahloul and Carolyn Graham (eds.) Lights! Camera! Action and the brain: The use of film in education. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars. pp. 111 - 140. ISBN13:978-1-4438-3657-9, and ISBN: 1-4438-3657-5. pp. 111 - 140. Book reviews, more details and sample pdf available: http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Lights---Camera---Action-and-the-Brain--The-Use-of-Film-in-Education1-4438-3657-5.htm

“In Chapter 5, “Moving Image Production and the PedagogicalDevelopment of Media Literacy,” Liam French, Stuart Moore and Kayla Parkerreflect through an experiential learning case study on the extent to which theinvolvement of young people in filmmaking develops their critical thinkingabilities and personal and social development, in addition to fostering suchtransferable skills as reasoning, meaning negotiation and problem solving. Theresults of the discussion relevant to various Enquiry-Based-Learning pedagogiesalso make it quite clear that much could be borrowed from such projects toreach others through curricula that value media literacy, not in thetraditional sense of critical reading of media texts, but rather throughinvolving learners in the making of media products and artefacts” (Bahloul,2012: 7).

Journal article

2011 ‘White Body: animating feminine pleasure’ [paper: written critical reflection, with film and film frame] Body, Space and TechnologyJournal Volume 10 / Number 2 Summer 2011 [print and online]. BrunelUniversity, West London. ISSN 1470-9120. Available: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol1002/home.html

2010 ‘Art of research’ [feature article/interview with RobertaMock] in Lee Morgan (ed.) ArtsCulture Plymouth Issue 3 June 2010 [printand online]. Exeter: News and Media Republic. pp. 26 - 30. Available: http://issuu.com/artsculture/docs/artsculture_plymouth

2002 ‘Icon: A Light at the End of the World’ [feature article] in Imagine:Animation/digital media/post production Spring 2002. Bristol: Greetlake.pp. 59 – 60.

2001 ‘Remembering Alison de Vere (1927 – 2001)’ [feature articleand obituary] in ASIFA News Volume 14, Number 1, 200. Ottawa:International Association of Animated Film. p. 16 [French translation p. 17;Russian translation p. 18].

2000 ‘Direct-it-Yourself guide to film-making’, ‘Face to Face:with Alison de Vere’, and ‘Mr Entertainment: Colin Rose’ [x 3 feature articles]in Bel Mooney (ed.) Proof: Year of the Artist in the South West Summer2000. Exeter: South West Arts ISSN 1470-5508 pp. 21; 22 – 23; 24 – 25.

1998 ‘Sunset Strip’ [double-page feature, extracts from productiondiary, with enlarged colour film stills, front and back covers] Vicky Smith(ed.) Boiling; experimental animation Issue 1, October 1998. London:London Film Makers’ Co-op [no page numbers].

Internet publication

2012 'Making Glass' [paper: critical reflection, video documentationwith monologue, and film] with Stuart Moore, in Annette Arlander, Yvon Bonenfant and Mary Agnes Covey-Krell (editor-curators) Ex-Trauma: The Opposite of the Traumatic, Experiments and Intensities volume 2, November 2012. Winchester: University of Winchester Press. Available: http://www.experimentsandintensities.com/published/vol-2/

2011 ‘White Body’ [film, with research statement and peer reviews]in Charlotte Crofts (ed.) JMP Screenworks Volume 2 AVPhD Issue, Summer2011. Available: http://jmpscreenworks.com/page/vol2

2010 ‘Memories wanted’ [essay, with film and colour photographic series] in Nicholas Rombes (editor and convenor) REQUIEM // 102. Minute #2916 December 2010. Available: http://requiem102.tumblr.com/post/2337419526/post-29

2007 Art of Conversation [online creative media education research project]. Plymouth: Sundog Media.

2006 Unity [microsite for cultural diversity project]. Plymouth: Plymouth College of Art and Design.

2005 Street Rat [online film production site] First Light. Plymouth: Sundog Media. Available: http://www.sundog.co.uk/streetrat/index.html

2004 Wild Ideas: a Perfect World [online film productionsite] Wild Ideas, Bristol Natural History Consortium. Plymouth: Sundog Media.Available: http://www.sundog.co.uk/perfectworld/index.html

2000 You Are Here [poetryfilm project documentation] MiniatureFilm Project, Poetry International and Royal Mail. Plymouth: Sundog Media.Available: http://www.sundog.co.uk/minifilm/index.html

1997 Project [blog: film production diary] One Minute Film, London Film Makers’ Co-op. Plymouth: Sundog Media. Available: http://www.sundog.co.uk/project.html

DVD publication

2011 ‘White Body’ [film and artist’s statement] in HerStory (July 2011) [DVD of exhibition, 8 June - 8 July 2011, Link Gallery, Universityof Winchester] Winchester: Women’s Work.

2010 ‘Sunset Strip’ [35mm film] in AnimateTV: 20 years ofexperimental animation from the UK [DVD of 23 selected films, with booklet]. London: Animate Projects.

2008 ‘White Body’ [film and research statement, with peer reviews]in Screenwork2 AVPhD Issue [DVD showcase of practice-based doctorial researchin screen media - moving image work on film, video and new media platforms]. Journalof Media Practice Volume 9, Issue 3, November 2008. Bristol: Intellect.doi: 10.1386/jmpr.9.1.5/2

2003 ‘Sunset Strip’ [film and production notes, with b/w studio photograph] in Louise Spraggon Into animation: a video compilation andteaching guide [VHS and CD-ROM, with booklet]. London: BFI Education ISBN1-903786-10-X.

2001 ‘Physic’ [digital film] in Dartmoor Lives and Landscapes [VHS andDVD]. Princetown: Aune Head Arts.

Exhibition catalogue

2012 ‘Kayla Parker: Sunset Strip’ [text and biog, with enlarged film frame, for continuous screenings 31 May - 26 August 2012, Canary Wharf Station] in Canary Wharf Screen - Season 2: Animate Projects ‘Move onUp [16 selected films]. London: Art on the Underground. p. 7. Sequences of film frames also printed on merch (promotional materials, such as postcards and cloth shopping bags).

2008 Spectacular visions  [programme notes for x 3 screenings, Jill Craigie Cinema] British Animation Awards 2008: Public Choice Awards. Plymouth: Peninsula Arts.

2004 ‘Project’ in Memory, Narrative, Imaging the un-see-able programme; and ‘As Yet Unseen’, ‘Walking Out’ and ‘Elemental’ in Cinema,spectacle, immersion programme [enlarged film stills], in  Jackie Hatfield and Stephen Littman (editors and curators) Experiments in moving image [exhibition publication, 26 January - 1 February 2004, University of Westminster] Margate: Thanet ISBN1-902458-06-0 pp. 49; 90; 91; 92; 100; 105.

1994 ‘Kayla Parker’ [double-page spread with large b/w photograph]in Brion Clinkingbeard (editor and curator) Strandline: where Plymouth meetsthe sea [exhibition publication, 23 April - 11 June 1994, Plymouth City Art Gallery] Plymouth: Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.

Other publication

2006 ‘The bigger picture: Getting animated’ [reflection on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs] in Simon Cropper (ed.) Time Out 1000 films to change your life. London: Ebury ISBN 978-1-904978-73-2 p. 101.

2005 Learning companion (reprinted twice, 2006) [comprehensive guide to study for level 3 learners, x 64 pages]. Plymouth:Plymouth Learning and Work Partnership, and the 14 - 19 Pathfinder Project [author and co-designer; production: Sundog Media].

Image publication

2012 ‘Teign Spirit’ [large colour still, Coastcards section], and‘Sunset Strip’ [large colour still 35mm artwork, penultimate page] with quotation from Kayla Parker, in Animate Projects: experiments in animation[brochure]. London: Animate Projects.

2008 ‘The Brothers Quay in Conversation with Suzanne Buchan’[drawings and text, x 4 Field Notes notebook pages] Proof magazine, KateJago (ed.) (Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2008) Exeter: Portfolio Five. p. 20.

2006 ‘Sunset Strip’ [x 9 colour film stills, inside back cover]Benjamin Cook and Gary Thomas (eds.) The animate! book: rethinking animation.London: LUX and Arts Council England. ISBN 0-9548569-2-9.

2006 ‘Cage of Flame’ and ‘Project’ [large colour film stills] in‘Images’ chapter Jackie Hatfield (ed.) Experimental film and video: a newanthology. Eastleigh: John Libbey ISBN 0-86196-664-3 p. 275.

2005 ‘Cage of Flame’ [large film still, the cover image] an.schlage:das feministische magazin (03/2005). Vienna: Redaktion.

2003 ‘Metamorphosis’ [16mm filmstrip], ‘Sunset Strip’, ‘WalkingOut’ and ‘Running Horse’ [enlarged colour frames] in Drawing on film section;‘Cage of Flame’ [large colour film still: Woman in Smoke] in Themes: didacticsection, in Richard Taylor The encyclopaedia of animation techniques (revised edition; original edition, 1996). London: Quarto ISBN 0-240-51488-2 pp.64 – 65; 131. ‘Walking Out’ film frame also included on front cover of dustjacket.

1996 ‘Cage of Flame’ [enlarged film still] the cover image; withbio/filmography in ‘Kayla Parker’ double-page, in David Curtis (ed.) A directory of British film and video artists. Luton: John Libbey and ArtsCouncil of England ISBN 1-86020-003-6 pp. 138 – 139; 223.

1996 ‘As Yet Unseen’ [enlarged film still, the cover image, exhibition programme] (July - September 1996). London: London Film-makers’Co-op.

1993 ‘Unknown Woman' [x 2 colour 16mm film frames] in IlonaHalberstadt (ed.) PIX 1. ISSN 0967 8727.

1992 ‘Unknown Woman’ [colour enlarged film still], and ‘A-Z:Parker, Kayla GB’ [bio/filmography] in Jayne Pilling (ed.) Women and animation: a compendium. London: British Film Institute ISBN 0-85170-377-1 pp. 80 -81; pp. 133 – 134.

Esteem items
2010 Letter to the world animation film directed by Professor Suzie Hanna, Norwich University College of the Arts, in consultation with Dr SallyBayley, Balliol College, University of Oxford, featuring 'stimmung' sounddesign by Tom Simmons; created for the Emily Dickinson International Society(EDIS) Conference, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford (August2010). Artwork from Kayla Parker's film Sunset Strip features as the window view in sceneswith the animated silhouette of American actress Elisabeth Gray. 9 minutes.

2010 ‘Direct animation’ [section] in A/V A to Z: an encyclopedic dictionary of media, entertainment and otheraudiovisual terms Richard W. Kroon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland ISBN 13: 978-0786444052:
“direct animation n. 1. An animation technique where images (and in some casessound) are drawn or pasted directly onto blank film, generally black or clearemulsion leader. Practitioners of the technique include Len Lye, NormanMcLaren, and Kayla Parker. Their work can be seen in A Colour Box (1939), Begone Dull Care (1949), and Sunset Strip (1996), respectively.”

2009 Coastcards: a response to the threefilms Gareth Gardener, Animate Projects (13 October 2009) [online].

2009 A short guide on Britain animationfilms, British Girl, San Francisco, CA: HubPages Inc. [online].

2008 'Experimenting on air: UK artists' film on television' AL Rees in Laura Mulvey and Jamie Sexton (eds.) Experimental British television. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, p. 158

2008 ‘Composers andanimators - the creation of interpretive and collaborative vocabularies’ Suzie Hanna in Journal of Media Practice Volume 9, Issue 1, Spring 2008. pp.29 - 41. doi: 10.1386/jmpr.9.1.29/1.

2008 ‘The animationgame’ [double page illustrated feature on Kayla Parker] Lee Morgan (author and ed.) Artin Devon magazine February/March2008 [print and online]. pp. 16 – 17.

2007 ‘Transitions andTransgression: The British avant-garde and methods of opposition, 1985-1994’ Gareth Buckell, Filmwaves Issue 34 Autumn 2007. pp. 34 – 39.

2007 A history of artists’ film and video in Britain,David Curtis (ed.). London: BFI ISBN 1-84457-096-7 pp. 140; 255.

2006 ‘Categories of mixed-media artists’ Suzie Hanna in Paul Wells The fundamentals of animation. Lausanne:AVA Publishing SA. p. 66:

“4. Artist film-makers who animate with widely varyingtechniques and materials as a way of bringing ideas and narratives to life in aphysically symbolic manner. Examples: David Anderson, Kayla Parker, JanSvankmajer, Yuri Norstein, Simon Pummell and The Quay Brothers.”

2005 Image is everything Esther Johnson (curator) in Britishartists' film and video study collection [online exhibition].

2003 Comic art of Europe through 2000: an internationalbibliography volume II (Bibliographies and indexes in popular culture, no. 10) John A. Lent. Westport, CT: Praeger(Greenwood).

2003 ‘Women's animation: women animators with a distinctivefeminine and/or feminist perspective’ Ruth Lingford, Screenonline: thedefinitive guide to Britain's film and tv history. London: BFI.

2002 "You might change the way people think": School-cinemapartnerships in rural areas [Final Report of The Devon School-Cinema Project 2000-2002]. London: BFIEducation. pp. 17 -18; 20.

2002 Beautiful little movers: Ever considered animation? Annette Ward (2002) in Membersnewsletter, British Society of Comedy Writers, Edition 037 10 April 2002(online)

2001 ‘Highly Visible’ Lois Taylor (Summer 2001) Animated:the community dance magazine. Leicester: BC Publications on behalf of Foundationfor Community Dance pp. 38 – 40.

2001‘Highly Visible’ in 365: Year of the Artist in the SouthWest Bob Butler,Alyson Sarah Hallett and Piers Rawson. Bridport: Agre Books and South WestArts. ISBN 0-9538000-6-7. p. 113.

2000 "Using the basic teaching techniques in ART AND DESIGN' CaryBazalgette, Wendy Earle, Jenny Grahame, Jill Poppy, Mark Reid and Alastair West(eds.) Moving images in the classroom: a secondary teachers'guide to using film and television. London: British Film Institute ISBN 0 85170 831 5.p. 29.

1999 ‘Animation’ [section] ChrisByrne, in Peter Childs and Mike Storry (eds.) Encyclopaedia of British culture. London: Routledge. p. 27:

"KaylaParker makes films that are experimental in form, with uncompromising subjectmatter. Cage of Flame (1992) celebrates menstruation and uses a combination oflive action, stop-motion and scratching on the surface of the film to conveyhaunting, powerful imagery. Sunset Strip (1996) is a time lapse film ofdrawings of sunsets made every evening over one year. The images are drawndirectly onto the film using a variety of materials including nail varnish,magnolia petals, hair and net stockings."

1999 Vertigo Volume1 No. 9 Summer 1999 ‘Renderedinvisible: the silence of the critics’ by Ruth Lingford: "KaylaParker's film Cage of Flame, full of rich and powerful images that communicatedirectly with my body"; and ‘Cageof Flame’ film still ('Woman in Smoke') in 'Breer's babes' by SamanthaMoore, in pp. 26; 27.

1999 Animasjon som musikk Rune Kreutz, Animertedager/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 with page feature; ‘The complete list of Animate!Films: Year 2 (1991) and Year 5 (1994’); ‘Close up on camera-less animation’ inArt and animation Gareth Evans and David Curtis. London: Channel 4Television ISBN 1-85144-244-8. pp. 8; 9; 11; 20.

1998 Eating and Animating: Balancing theBasics for U.K. Independents Marie Beardmore's article in Animationworld magazine 3.7, 1 October1998, Animation World Network pp. 21 – 24.

1998 European Media Arts Festival 1998 Andreas Denk in KunstforumInternational (Volume 141 p.362).

1996 ‘British AnimationPast and Present’ Pat Raine Webbin Animatoon: world animation journal 6 (2) 1996 pp. 8 - 9. Korea pp. 41– 42 (Korean translation, illustrated, pp. 36 – 40).

1996 Will the Monster Eat the Film? Orthe Redefinition of Animation 1980-94 Simon Pummell in The British avant-garde film 1926 to1995: an anthology of writings Michael O’Pray (ed.). Luton: John Libbey, Universityof Luton with the Arts Council of England ISBN 1-86020-004-4. p. 308:

"Kayla Parker's A Cage of Flame(1993) [sic] presents a de-sanitised view of women's menstruation; a tumult ofmixed media animation including pixillated crimson berries spiralling on awoman's belly, seeds coated in viscous blood-like juice, dancing calligraphichand-drawn animation, a pixillated woman bursting up through the rootstructures of a tree and imploding vulva-shaped calligraphy. The film is anassertion of a subjective and mythic view of women which the film-maker statesis 'counter to the sanitised, pastel pretty version we are conditioned toaccept'".

1996 The National Lottery: A Polemic Jill McGreal in Animation worldmagazine 1.8. Animation World Network.

1994 'Mistress of the moving picture' [Frame by Frame exhibition at PlymouthArts Centre, review by Isabel Stott] Evening Herald newspaper. Plymouth: WesternMorning News (15 December 1994).

1994 Potato: a film and video show Gary Thomas, Steve Mcintyre and 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’ in Networking: thefilm, video and television organisation for women newsletter. Leeds: Vera Productionsp. 4.

1994 ‘Art into film’ Philip Dodd, Will Bell and RichardHumphreys, Sight and sound special magazine supplement (July 1994) to accompanythe R.B. Kitaj exhibition at Tate. London: British Film Institute.

1992 Animation in the UK in Women and animation: a compendium 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’ [reporton Arts Council Animateur project at South Dartmoor School] Charlotte Rastan inArts and schools. London: HMSO, CentralOffice of Information for Department of Education and Science and the Office ofArts and Libraries. pp. 46 – 47.

Reports & invited lectures
PRESENTATIONS selected
2013
'Reading silence: a performance with film and light' [20 minutes] Textually Active, The Plymouth Athaneum. 28 May 2013
'My mother's voice: animating the place of memory' [paper, 20 minutes] Unfolding Narrative film art symposium, Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University. 24 May 2013
'Trancing the white darkness: cinematic resurrection and animation' [paper, 20 minutes] Zombies: Walking, Eating and Performance symposium, Plymouth University. 13 April 2013
'Choreographies of the mind: thinking about the performance of animation' [paper, 20 minutes] Lure of the New Cognition Institute annual conference, Central Methodist Hall, Plymouth. 20 March 2013
'I walked with a zombie: what the living dead can teach us about performance' [15 minutes of collaborative lecture, with Lee Miller, Roberta Mock, and Phil Smith] School of Humanities, Music and Performance (HuMPA) Research Showcase for the Plymouth University Festival of Research, Theatre 2, Plymouth University. 19 March 2013
'Sewing film: materiality and mimesis in STITCH-es' [paper, 20 minutes] art + sound research group seminar, Plymouth University. 6 February 2013
'Sewing film: materiality and mimesis in STITCH-es' [paper, 20 minutes] Theatre, Dance and Performance research group seminar, Plymouth University. 24 January 2013

2012
'Liquidity' [introduction to curated screening programme (55 minutes)] Water: Image conference, Plymouth University. 4 - 6 July 2012
'Jamming the machine: the personal-political in Annabel Nicolson’s Reel Time ' [paper, 20 minutes] the Arts in History interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, Faculty of Arts, Plymouth University. 15 June 2012
Welcome to the Treasuredome: immersive experience, or on the threshold? [paper, 20 minutes, with Stuart Moore] Exhibiting Video international conference, Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster. 23 - 25 March 2012
STITCH in process: a reflection on practice-as-research [research presentation, 60 minutes] Land/Water and the Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts, Plymouth University. 14 March 2012
Making Glass: towards a creative research methodology [paper, 20 minutes], Theatre, Dance and Performance research group, Faculty of Arts, Plymouth University. 9 February 2012

2011
Looking through Glass: a reflection on practice-as-research [research presentation, 60 minutes] art + sound research group seminar, Faculty of Arts, Plymouth University. 16 November 2011
Screen Talk [introduction to Patrick Keiller's 'Robinson in Ruins' (2010)], Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University (for Peninsula Arts). 24 October 2011
Direct animation: Margaret Tait, Caroline Leaf and Annabel Nicolson [paper, 60 minutes] Land/Water and the Visual Arts research group, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth. 19 January 2011

2010
Salon South West: Peep Show at The Octagon, Close-up: the view from here [talk] In response to the themes of Project Space 11’s Peep Show presentation of moving image work by members of the Subjectivity and Feminisms Research Group at Chelsea College of Art and Design, my talk drew on work by Sigmund Freud and Luce Irigaray to examine the interplay between ‘I’ and ‘eye’, focusing on embodied visuality and the subjective resonance that is activated by the dynamic perspectives of maker and audience. The Octagon Social Club, Plymouth. 28 October 2010
Radical British Screens Symposium; The moving image screen as a site of feminine pleasure [paper, 20 minutes]; University of the West of England and South West Screen Studies Network; Bush House, Bristol. 3 September 2010
Animation Deviation Symposium; Verge 360: beyond the frame [paper, 20 minutes, with Stuart Moore]; University of the West of England, Bristol. 13 July 2010
Arial visions: touching the seen and unseen [research presentation, 60 minutes] Land/Water and the Visual Arts research group seminar, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth. 5 May 2010
The Measure of It [16mm screening with film-drawing performance and artists' talk] Studio One at Plymouth Arts Centre. 28 April 2010
Animation Symposium, Screen Studies South West [round table discussion, 60 minutes] Industry, Practice and Animation Education: panel member, with Tom Walsh (AUCB, chair); Tom Barnes (Aardman Animation Ltd); Mark Cass (Escape Studios); Chris Gunningham (King Rollo); Richard Haynes (Cosgrove Hall/Aardman); and Stuart Moore (University College Plymouth, Marjon/Sundog Media); Arts University College at Bournemouth. 30 March 2010
Evolution: case study of two moving image projects: As Yet Unseen and Inner City [visiting artist film-maker's talk charting the journey from idea to presentation of the mediation of that idea to an audience]; for MA Contemporary Film Practice, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth. 11 March 2010
Seeing the vulva: adopting strategic essentialism as a means of disrupting phallogocentrism, finding a subjective voice and picturing difference [paper, 20 minutes] presented at f-word 2 the Faculty of Arts' second annual feminist interdisciplinary research symposium at University of Plymouth. 9 March 2010

2009
Sunset Strip: a year watching the sun set [visiting artist film-maker's talk about the 35mm film of the visual music of 365 setting suns]; for MA Contemporary Film Practice, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth. 25 November 2009
Wendy and Lucy [film seminar and discussion of Kelly Reichardt's new film: exploring the theme of interior landscape in relation to exterior environment, and the tensions played out within 
the context of the interrupted personal journey of one woman and her dog]; Film Academy, Plymouth Arts Centre. 28 April 2009
Feeling for Nature [recent practice-led research: an exploration of place, subjectivity and liminal states, through film collage and the (re)animation of found materials gathered while walking and wandering]. Research Centre for Land/Water and the Visual Arts, University of Plymouth. 1 April 2009
Shapeshifting, Slutswool, and Spaces Between [paper]; Women at Work in the 1960s and 1970s [introduction to curated screening programme from South West Film and Television Archive (25 minutes), and chair]; Faculty of Arts' f-word feminist interdisciplinary research symposium, University of Plymouth. 19 February 2009

2008
These Restless Hands [research seminar, a review of current practice-led research]; Plymouth College of Art and Design. 29 April 2008
The Material and the Maternal [research seminar]; Media and Photography, University of Plymouth. 23 January 2008

2005
Seminar presentation for SURGE TO MERGE: Creative Industries and Cultural Regeneration University of Plymouth conference organised by Joasia Krysa, Geoff Cox (University of Plymouth) and Roslyn Porter (ICCI, University of Plymouth) in partnership with Plymouth Arts Centre; held at Plymouth Arts Centre. 17 March 2005
My paper asked: How do art and creativity sit within the economic agenda? and explored the role that creativity - with its unpredictable and unruly nature -might play in the new Plymouth. My presentation demonstrated how artists have reclaimed public space through interventions such as street art using graffiti, posters and stickers; performance art, and digital media.

1990 - 2000
Panel member Meet the Industry, event organised by Honeycomb Animation, Exeter Animation Festival, Exeter Picturehouse. 19 February 2000
Panel member Animate, Arts Council of England and Channel 4 event held at the Lux Centre, London. 18 November 1999
Panel member Animate, Arts Council of England and Channel 4 event, International Animation Festival; held at St David's Hall, Cardiff. 1 June 1996
Innovation '93: the First Manchester International Film Forum curated by Moira Sweeney, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK. A Television Affair panel discussion exploring the effectiveness of strategies to get experimental and innovative moving image onto television screens Ana De Skalon producer of The South, Brazilian film-maker Jorge Furtodo, Kayla Parker "film-maker based in the South West", and Rod Stoneman commissioning editor at Channel 4. 30 March - 4 April 1993
Presentation for Women in Animation, event organised by the BFI, held at the Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI), London.

REPORTS selected
2010 Online presence and global media development from 2009 onward for Land/Water and the Visual Arts research group, School of Art and Media, University of Plymouth (July 2010)
2010 Creating a balance: lecturing and PhD study for Research and Graduate Committee, MADr (Media, Art and Design Research Centre), School of Art and Media, University of Plymouth (June 2010)
2007 AURORA 2007: Possible Worlds for Plymouth Media-Partnership (PM-P)
2004 - 2006 annual evaluation reports (x 3) on BME and cultural diversity projects at Plymouth College of Art and Design, for The Learning and Skills Council (co-authored with Carolyn Stoakes)
2001 Greenlink Environmental Arts Project evaluation report. Plymouth: Plymouth City Council and Arts Council England (co-authored with Stuart Moore; production: Sundog Media)
 

Conferences organised

EVENT PRESENTATION, FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR & CURATOR selected
2013 
Unfolding Narrative: (from middles to beginnings to endless loops) film art symposium, Plymouth University (23 and 24 May 2013) (co-organiser, with Anya Lewin, Heidi Morstang, and John Sealey)
Zombies: Walking, Eating and Performance symposium, Plymouth University (12 and 13 April 2013) (co-organiser, with Lee Miller, Roberta Mock, and Phil Smith)

2012
Welcome to the Treasuredome exhibition of artists' moving image for 'surround cinema', Weymouth (10 and 11 August 2012) (co-curator with Stuart Moore, on behalf of ICCI with Plymouth University); part of Maritime Mix - London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the Sea. Features exciting, beautiful films and sonic art made by UK-based artists, and features Borders, Unto the Edges, a performance by internationally acclaimed artist Scanner on Friday evening. Other wonders of the Treasuredome include a special programme of experimental animation from Animate Projects and a selection from Kerry Baldry’s artists’ touring film initiative, One Minute. Plus moving image artworks created for surround cinema, and evening VJ and music performances.

Liquidity programme of artists' moving image (curator and presenter) for the Water: Image international conference, Land/Water and the Visual Arts, Plymouth University. 4 - 6 July 2012

2010
One Minute volume four of the artists' moving image collection curated by Kerry Baldry; Plymouth Arts Centre. (19 November 2010) (co-organiser and presenter with Stuart Moore)

f-word 2 the second annual feminist interdisciplinary research symposium, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth. (9 March 2010) (co-organiser with Liz Wells, Roberta Mock, James Daybell and Mhairi Mackie)

British Animation Awards 2010: Public Choiceprogrammes, Jill Craigie cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth. 15, 16, 17 February 2010 (presenter, and co-organiser with Peninsula Arts)

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) (presenter for Land/Water and the Visual Arts research group; co-organiser with Peninsula Arts and Centre for Sustainable Futures, University of Plymouth)

Aurora Tour 09 Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK (17 November 2009) (co-presenter, with Stuart Moore)

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) (presenter and organiser)

f-word feminist interdisciplinary research symposium, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth. (19 February 2009) (co-organiser with Liz Wells, Roberta Mock, James Daybell and Mhairi Mackie)

2008
British Animation Awards 2008: Public Choice programmes, with Peninsula Arts, Jill Craigie cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth. February 2008 (presenter, and co-organiser with Peninsula Arts)

2007
Oddfellows Night, an evening of artists’ film and music at Ker Street Social Club, Devonport, presented by Plymouth Arts Centre (co-curator)

2002
Alison de Vere Retrospective programme for Animated Exeter, Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter (presenter and curator)

2001
Imagination and Spectacle, lecture about artists’ film and video, and programme of artists' short films, Ashburton, Devon; for Aune Head Arts/Arts Council (presenter and co-curator with Stuart Moore)

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 (presenter + curator); and '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 (presenter and curator) (30 November 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 (presenter and curator) (28 April 1996)

1993
Animation by Women programme of short experimental animated films curated and introduced by Kayla Parker. The programme of nine films included: Vera Neubauer’s Mid Air (1986) and La Nuit Sur Le Mont Chauvre (1934) made by Claire Parker in collaboration with Alexandre Alexeioff. Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK (13 May 1993)

Cultural screen initiative START Moving Image
2006 Sunday Shorts International Short Film Festival, The Desmond Tutu Centre, University College Plymouth St Mark and 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 and artists of south west England and Kernow, touring cinemas and screening venues across the south west (UK)
2005 START05 moving image festival, cinema tent in the Place de Brest, Plymouth city centre and 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 and artists of south west England and Kernow, touring cinemas and screening venues across the south west
2000 START the Millennium festival, Plymouth Arts Centre, and Plymouth College of Art and Design (PCAD)
1999, 1997, 1996, 1995, and 1994 START Moving Image Festival, Plymouth Arts Centre and PCAD
1993 START Moving Image Festival, Plymouth Arts Centre, and VIPER '93, Luzern, Switzerland

Other academic activities
Member of School of Art and Media Research and Graduate Committee, representing staff doctoral candidates (2010 to date)
Member of Peninsula Arts Film Programme Advisory Committee (2008 to date)

2009 - 2010 member of Faculty of Arts' Practice and Work Experience Group
2008 - 2010 Faculty of Arts' representative on University of Plymouth Race Equality Action Scheme Sub-committee; and member of Faculty of Arts' Equality and Diversity Committee.

Active contributor to Faculty of Arts' widening participation and enterprise agendas (2008 to date); animation and creative media workshops and initiatives include:

Lighthouse a 16mm film poem inspired by Smeaton's Tower on Plymouth Hoe, created by students from the After School Media Club at Sir John Hunt Community Sports College; made possible with generous support from Faculty of Arts Widening Participation, Media Arts, Contemporary Film Practice, and Peninsula Arts with Plymouth University; Sundog Media and Plymouth Arts Centre. Premiere screening in Jill Craigie Cinema during the Unravel animation workshop day on 5 November 2011, presented by Peninsula Arts. Selected for the Animated Exeter festival 2012, and winner of the Young Ones Award (under 18s category). Screened at East End Film Festival (CineEast: Whirlykids programme). 1 July 2012. Shortlisted for a Kids for Kids UK film award (Animation category) 2012, and shown in secondary schools across County Durham during autumn 2012. Winner of the Young Motion Plymouth Award 2012.

What Are You Thinking? For students, teachers, and PGCE students; with Faculty of Arts technical staff Andy Banks and Craig Whyte, and Media Arts Animation Ambassadors Georgia Jones and Beth Skinner. Creating Opportunities: The Creative Puzzle 14 - 19 Creative and Media Diploma Conference, University of Plymouth. 20 November 2009

Future City. For children aged 9 years at Stuart Road Primary School, Plymouth: exploring evolution through photographic pixillation, largescale timelapse drawing, stop-motion cut-outs and photographic montage. With Faculty of Arts technical staff Craig Whyte, and Media Arts Animation Ambassadors Sarah Lee, Beth Skinner and Sam Turner, working with Media Arts alumni, and staff and parents from Stuart Road Primary School; workshop leader: Phaedra Stancer. 13 July 2009

Surface/depth: an exploration of identity through rotoscoped video portraits. For 16 year-olds; with Faculty of Arts technical staff Matt Byrne and Craig Whyte, and Media Arts Student Ambassadors, and Catherine Slim, Plymouth College of Art. Creating Opportunities 14 - 19 Creative and Media Diploma Conference, University of Plymouth. 21 April 2009

The animation character I want to be today is... For 13-year old students from Stoke Damerel Community College: participants designed + sculpted their character in modelling clay, then animated the 3-D model turning through 360 degrees; each person's claymation sequence was composited with a pixillation 'loop' of the young person spinning around. With Faculty of Arts technical staff Matt Byrne and Craig Whyte, and Student Ambassadors. 25 February 2009

• a residency by Punjabi-British artist Chila Kumari Burman
• the recording and release of Beyond Words a hip hop/rap album by Jibi/The Loane Ranger
  
• Diversity Day: a collaborative event with the University of Plymouth Students Union (UPSU) during Fair Trade Week, for BME students in Plymouth
• D-Day: a day event at PCAD, celebrating multiculturalism; with a 40 foot-long graffiti wall, film screenings, non-stop music and jewellery-making workshops

Additional information

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE selected
2011 Person Centred Planning DVD (producer), a Sundog Media production with Stuart Moore and Logan Baird; commissioned by the Learning Disability Partnership, Plymouth City Council

2009 Hidden Harm DVD (producer, designer, animator), a Sundog Media production made in collaboration with The Zone, Plymouth and young people affected by drug and alcohol misuse in their family; commissioned by Plymouth City Council: "a powerful training DVD for professionals" (Ofsted report on Plymouth City Council 2010).

2009 The Other CO2 Problem DVD, clay animation warning of the dangers of increasing ocean acidification: a collaboration with Stuart Moore, Ridgeway School, Plymouth, and Dr Carol Turley and Helen Findlay of Plymouth Marine Laboratory; produced by Sundog Media, commissioned by EPOCA (European Project on Ocean Acidification) with support from University College Plymouth St Mark and St John, and National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth. 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; and Plymouth school children and 'The Other CO2 Problem' in SeaVision UK; plus Kate Herbert's review in the Ecologist (1 September 2009). Winner of the 2009 Bill Bryson Prize for Science Communication awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry. 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, Plymouth Marine Laboratory). The Other CO2 Problem featured in the speech to parliament given by Linda Gilroy, then MP for Plymouth Sutton, 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 DVD, clay animation about the experiences of children and young people who care for their siblings, parents and other family members, made with young carers and care workers, and introduced by Dr Roger Morgan OBE, Children's Rights Director for England; a Sundog Media production for The Zone/Plymouth City Council. Winner of the 2009 Media Innovation Award: Collaboration Between Business and Young People.

2008 Our Coast, Our Sea, OUR PLANET! DVD, animated film about the effects of ocean warming, made with gifted and talented pupils and staff at Ridgeway School, Plymouth; a Sundog Media production. Winner of EUR-OCEANS' European Schools Film Contest about climate change and ocean ecosystems.

2005 Street Rat DVD, animation and live action drama with young people and children in Newton Abbot, Devon; a Sundog Media production for First Light/UK Film Council. Nominated for the 2007 First Light Movie Best Screenplay Award (finalist)

2005 Transitions DVD, animation about children's experience of progression from primary to secondary education, and the impact on their lives; with Stoke Damerel Primary School and Stoke Damerel Community College; a Sundog Media production for Creative Partnerships/Arts Council of England, in association with Barefoot

2005 C-Sound DVD, digital photography and animation production with 4 Mount Wise primary schools in Plymouth, with The Barefoot Project, Plymouth Music Zone and Seymour House; a Sundog Media production for Creative Partnerships/Arts Council of England

2005 News Flash Osiris DVD, animation and film drama production with children at Glen Park Primary School in Plymouth; a Sundog Media production for Creative Partnerships/Arts Council of England, in association with Barefoot

2005 Perfect World DVD, music video production with an environmental message, made in collaboration with BME young people; a Sundog Media production for Wild Ideas Bristol Natural History Consortium. Nominated for the ‘Panda in the Pocket’ Award (finalist) 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 and dance event at Plymouth Guildhall 20 June 2004; a Sundog Media production for Fata He BME Development Plymouth Community Cohesion Facilitation Programme

2004 The Dragons of Barnstaple Bay animation and documentary video production by Sundog Media, Newport Community Primary School, Barnstaple, north Devon

2003 Rock Nose Project the creation of a digital photography and video archive for the coastal villages of Downderry and Seaton in Deviock Parish, south east Cornwall

2003 Countdown practice-as-research project exploring the visualisation of mathematics, using animation as an educational tool for enabling the understanding of mathematical concepts, 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; a Sundog Media production in association with Barefoot. Premiere at Plymouth Arts Centre; screened at the Co-op Young Filmmakers' Festival.

2002 Mix in the Sticks 16mm direct animation and stop-motion film with young people, about their take on life in rural Somerset; a Sundog Media production for First Light/Film Council, with Cinema Obscura.

2002 Let's Play information video about the range of playcare opportunities for children of all abilities, made in collaboration with children, carers, and play-workers; a Sundog Media production for All Children First, Plymouth City Council

2002 Video Box a media-based research project, gathering data (first person testimonials to inform policy-making); a Sundog Media production for the Devonport Regeneration Company Conference, Plymouth

1998 - 2002 Greenlink Environmental Arts Project (documentary artist in residence, with Stuart Moore and Sundog Media) Devonport, Plymouth; for Plymouth City Council, South West Arts and the Arts Council. Work undertaken includes a comprehensive 'creative technologies' programme of photography, video, animation, audio, and web-based skills-sharing workshops; the creation of a media-based archive in collaboration with the community of Mount Wise, Greenlink artists and professional contributors; and the writing and production of the Greenlink evaluation report.

2001 Countdown animated film trailer for The Barn Cinema Dartington, with gifted students at KEVICC (King Edward VI Community College) Totnes, Devon; a Sundog Media production.

2001 Air Fusion video documentary project with young people, Newton Abbot, Devon, for Digital Express/Villages in Action; a Sundog Media production.

2001 Video Box a media-based research project, gathering data (first person testimonials to inform policy-making) for the New Deal for Communities conference in Devonport, Plymouth; a Sundog Media production.

2000 Respect video documentary of the annual multi-cultural Plymouth Respect Festival; a Sundog Media production for Plymouth and District Racial Equality Council (REC)

2000 You Are Here site-specific poetry and animation with children at Dolton primary school, about the Tarka Trail cycle path in north Devon; a Sundog Media production for International Poetry Day at the South Bank Centre, London.

2000 The HAZ Channel information video about 6 key health issues in Plymouth, made in collaboration with user groups and stakeholders; a Sundog Media production for Plymouth Health Action Zone and 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 and sustainable community development; a Sundog Media production for Plymouth City Council and the Shell Better Britain Campaign.

1995 Queens 16mm animated poetry with John Agard and 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 at Eggbuckland Community College, Plymouth; for the Safe and 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; Exeter Film Workshop for the Arts Council and British Film Institute Video Animateur Project, led by Chris Rushton.

1986 Out of Space artist’s residency with Dave Johnstone; Exeter Film Workshop and Plymouth Arts Centre, 16mm film animation with disadvantaged young people from the waterfront area of Plymouth; supported by TSW (Television South West).

DESIGN & ANIMATION: TITLES & GRAPHICS selected
2009 Lonely: That's How We Feel (clay, 2D montage and digital) for the Plymouth City Council Hidden Harm DVD produced by Sundog Media, about the the experiences of children and young people affected by the use of alcohol and drugs in their family [animated graphics, characters; props and backgrounds animated in a range of scenes]

2008 There 2 Care: The Voice of Young Carers DVD (claymation and cut-out) a Sundog Media production for Plymouth City Council about the experiences of young children and young people who care for members of their family [animated title sequence and graphics; characters, props and backgrounds animated in a range of scenes]

2005 Right from the Start DVD (claymation on coloured sugar paper) a Sundog Media production for Department of Education healthy living information video for parents of pre-school children; created in collaboration with children at Denbury Primary School, Devon [animated title sequence and graphics; characters and props animated in a range of scenes]

2004 Get the Buzz DVD (2D claymation) documentation of summer animation workshop programme for disadvantaged children and young people in Torbay, Devon; a Sundog Media production for the European-funded Torbay Council project [animated title sequence and graphics]

2004 What on Earth (2D hand-drawn pencil with digital colouring) for multiple broadcast family entertainment daytime and evening environmental focused television series to encourage people to be more sustainable and do their bit for the planet, presented by Chris Hines (Surfers Against Sewage) and Melinda Messenger; ITV Carlton Westcountry and HTV [animated titles and graphics, and screen inserts for live action scenes] 3 x 30mins, 5 x news features, 5 x features shorts. Winner of Best Documentary at World Festival, Houston, USA

2002 Animated Exeter: Schools Week (2D cut-out, brush and ink with crayon on coloured sugar paper, with digital photography) cinema programme ident for Animated Exeter cinema programmes; a Sundog Media production for Animated Exeter/Exeter City Council [based on the winning submission for the Animated Exeter children's storyboard competition]

2001 Mutley Plain Regeneration Initiative website (2D digital web graphics: Flash) for the public art and environmental improvement programme, Mutley Plain, Plymouth; a Sundog Media production for Plymouth SRB Partnership and Arts Council England [interactive map and icons]. Web artist: Stuart Moore.

1999 Interior Décor training CD-ROM for professional painters and decorators (2D hand-drawn brush and ink with digital colouring), for the Adapt through RATIO project led by Plymouth College of Art and Design, funded by the European Union; a Sundog Media production [character design and animated scenes to illustrate the correct way to clean a paintbrush (Mr Brush), and Health and Safety (Painter Man)].

1998 Cadle’s Quest (2D hand-drawn rotoscoping, brush and ink with Magic Marker colouring) for weekday evening television history series presented by Jerry Cadle; a Thirdman production for ITV Westcountry [animated title sequence with bluescreen/chroma-key intro to programme start]

1998 That Sunday Feeling (2D hand-drawn brush and ink with watercolour) for Sunday evening family entertainment television series; ITV Westcountry [animated title and credits sequences, graphics, illustrations, and end of part one and beginning of part two animation]

1997 Sing Out (2D hand-drawn brush and ink and watercolour) for Sunday evening choral music television series; HTV West [animated title sequence]

1996 Floyd on Africa (2D hand-drawn brush and ink and frottage) for Keith Floyd cookery television series, weekday evening; a Denham production for BBC2 [animated title sequence, maps and graphics] 7 x 30mins. Floyd on Africa DVD on Amazon

1993 Birthday People (2D hand-drawn brush and ink and Karismacolor crayon) for children’s television series; ITV Westcountry [animated title and credits sequences, artwork for live action presenters' studio backdrop, and promotional postcards]

1991 Tongue & Groove (2D hand-drawn and 16mm direct animation) for ground-breaking Friday night youth magazine television series, directed and produced by Julian Cole; TSW (Television South West) [animated title sequence]

1991 Skillnet Southwest: A Networking Approach to Film, Video and TV Training research report by Penny Florence commissioned by the BFI and South West Arts [publication design; graphic design and illustrations, and Skillnet SW logo design (ruby lith)]

1988 - 1990 Out of the Box (2D hand-drawn, brush and ink with oil pastel colouring; and painted Russian dolls) for weekday evening arts television series 1 and 2, directed and produced by Kevin Crookes; TSW (Television South West) [animated title sequence and additional artwork]

ARTIST'S WORKSHOPS including continuing professional development (CPD) events for professionals selected
2009 Drawn to be Wild II. Artist's workshop for families with children aged 5 - 9 years. Drawing and 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 workshop 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 workshops for families, (zoëtrope, 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 and Design (2 November 2007)

2007 Animation Art day exploring physical (16mm and 35mm film) and digital image-making for Foundation Studies students, Bridgwater College, Somerset (May 2007) Watch the 16mm direct animation created from found footage on Vimeo

2007 Optical Organic animation and film master class in physical and digital image-making for artists and creative practitioners at the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW), Haldon Forest, Exeter (February 2007)

2005 The Physical Image digital and 16mm direct animation workshops for educators and post-graduate art students at Plymouth College of Art and Design; for Creative Steps, University College Falmouth (7 July 2005)

2005 Green Space Blue Sky: Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker (Sundog Media) worked in collaboration with Nicholas Grew (Plymouth Music Zone), using stop-motion digital photography and animation to create a moving image artwork that explored sense of place; an event for educators and post-graduate artists on location at Port Elliot St Germans, Kernow; for Creative Partnerships/Arts Council England in association with the Eden Project (May 2005)

2004 - 2005 Get Animated! workshops at the Animated Exeter festival, at Dartington, Devon; for Dartington Arts with Exeter City Council

2004 Get Animated! workshops for children and teachers from Devon and Cornwall, at Screen 2004, held at TR2, Theatre Royal Plymouth; for Plymouth Media Partnership (PM-P) and Creative Partnerships/Arts Council (December 2004)

2004 Get Animated! INSET animation training for Plymouth secondary teachers and educators, at Stoke Damerel Primary School, Plymouth; for Creative Partnerships/Arts Council (October 2004)

2003 - 2004 Get Animated! programme of summer workshops for disadvantaged young people; for EU-funded Get the Buzz programme, Torbay Council, Devon

2003 Get Animated! advanced practice workshop for 6th form art students, and INSET video animation training for Devon teachers, Paignton Community College; 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 for children, Dartington Arts, Devon, for the British Film Institute Drawn to be Wild programme

NOTE
Many projects are in collaboration with Stuart Moore and/or credited to Sundog Media

Links

Kayla's site
Kayla film selection
Sundog Media
Academia.edu
Kayla on Animate Projects