Public Lecture: Chris Parkinson

Join artist and researcher Chris Parkinson, as he reflects on graffiti and conflict, art collectivism and public culture in dialogue with Claudia Gold's exhibition CLAW MONEY WORLD.

Working primarily through photographic processes and practice, Chris Parkinson remixes urban surfaces in compositions indebted to seriality and abstraction, rhythm and affect, text and subtext.

Parkinson's collaborative practices have been shaped through art collectivism and sustain a strong connection to the Southeast Asia region.

His 2010 book, Peace of the Wall: Street Art from East Timor, is described as a "book of evocative photojournalism capturing an important moment in East Timor's history through its walls."

In research, he has written and presented on graffiti and conflict, art collectivism and surface studies.

His current PhD research at the University of Melbourne presents a Rhythmanalysis of the Indonesian art Collective, Survive! Garage, exploring collective art practices and public cultures in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

As an educator, Parkinson, coordinates and delivers a Street Art elective to undergraduate students at the University of Melbourne an is a Youth Arts Officer with the inner-city Melbourne municipality City of Yarra.