Lois Parker is an artist working primarily in kiln formed glass, but also includes film, sound, and text. She merges the interests in the shaping of individual and group behaviour from her career as an organisational psychologist with a delight in making to produce works which explore complex issues. These have included pieces on the social and individual experience of illness including dementia.

 

Current emerging work focuses on ‘trace fossils’, those signs of a life that remain when the being that made them is no longer present. This is part of a larger interest on the emotive power of objects and the enduring nature of relic behaviours. Following completion of an MA in Fine Art at Gloucestershire University her work ‘Washday’ was accepted for exhibition at the British Glass Biennale 2019, highly commended in the Warm Glass Prize 2019, and won the 2021 virtual Glass Art Society Members Exhibition.

 

Glass 2021

30x30x1cm