Graham Parker received his BA from the University of Manchester. He
participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Parker
has shown throughout the UK and Europe, as well as in group shows throughout
the United States and solo shows in New York. Major work has been
commissioned by the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Compton
Verney, Centre for the Understanding of the Built Environment, Henry
Moore Institute and the Tate Liverpool. Parker is also the director
of the floating IP gallery and imprint in Manchester, now operating
from New York. He writes for various magazines, including Art
Monthly, and has contributed catalogue essays for several galleries
and museums, including the Tate, for whom he was also course leader
of the North of England MA network.
Graham Parker's work considers the power relationships within designed
structures - from provincial cities to graphic user interfaces on personal
computers. He mobilises a broad range of media to make these hidden
structural relationships visible and often points to inherent, if not
advertised or even designated, qualities of these environments. In
doing so he asks viewers to consider their agency and potential when
negotiating these spaces – suggesting small delinquencies, misreadings
or deadpan mirrorings that challenge the assumption that we are implicated
only as passive 'end users'.
www.grahamparker.info
