Sean Roy Parker
Sean Roy Parker is a visual artist, writer, gardener and fermentation enthusiast based in Derbyshire. He was a core member of The Field, an experimental rural arts residency and co-living project situated in an ex-Steiner School. He practises slow, low-tech crafts and food preservation with consumer waste and natural abundances, and shares extensively through labour exchange, favours and artswaps. In his ongoing project Fermental Health he writes about and leads workshops on the lifecycle of materials, complexities of interspecies responsibility, and collaborative problem-solving through the lens of food justice. Roy is impatiently anticipating the post-capitalist transition.
His writing has been published in WeedsFeed by Sandra Kosorotova for Publics, Helsinki (Finland), Tender Order by Jade Monserrat for TOMA, Southend (UK), and Worry, Collect, Fold (translated by Max Weinland) for Kunstverein Luneburg (Germany). He has delivered public research projects on fermenting with microbes for Liverpool Biennial (UK), anarchist solidarity with peasant farmers in Valencia at Pols (Spain), and was most recently artist-gardener at Kreenholm Plants in Narva (Estonia). Roy was a Wysing Arts Centre Resident 2023-24, received an Axis Fellowship in 2024, and was named a recipient of Paul Hamlyn Foundation Visual Artist Award 2024-26. His debut poetry collection ‘stewarding’ was published by Monitor Books (London).
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The 2024 Axis Fellowship brought together artists Uma Breakdown, Asuf Ishaq, Hannah Leighton-Boyce and Sean Roy Parker for a year of making, reflection and connection. From selection through to mentoring and curated projects, this archive captures their journey and the ideas that shaped it.
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