Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Direct text-based works and abstract paintings are made up of a vernacular that has developed through experience, relationships and through the depths and the peaks of their human existence thus far. Parris brings intimacy, insight and integrity to their paintings with great psychological and emotional force. The work is imbued with the sensitivity of one who feels everything, taking us through unflinching narratives and moments of reflection and tenderness. An ode to human existence, their work is sometimes silent, sometimes savage, with paintings that construct self portraits of personal battles and triumphs in a fast moving yet contemplative assault on the canvas.

Daisy Parris (b. 1993, Kent, UK) lives and works in London, UK and holds BA (Hons) Fine Art from Goldsmiths University, London. Recent exhibitions include Pain For Home, M+B, Los Angeles, USA (solo), Star-Studded Canopy, Sim Smith, London, UK (solo), Talk Like Strangers, with Nico Stone, Sebastian Helling and Jesse Littlefield, Part 2 Gallery, Oakland, California, What Kind Of Spirit Is This?, Sim Smith, London, UK and Poem, Las Palmas Project, Lisbon, Portugal.


Daisy is in conversation with London-based curator and writer Wells Fray-Smith. Wells currently holds the position of Assistant Curator: Special Projects at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, where she is responsible for The Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Before that, she held similar positions Pace Gallery and the Barbican Art Gallery, as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Projects at Whitechapel include The London Open (2022); Emma Talbot: The Age (2022), Nocturnal Creatures (2021); Helen Cammock: Che si puó fare and SenseSound Sound Sense (2019). She was research assistant for Basquiat: Boom For Real at the Barbican Art Gallery (2017) and has contributed catalogue essays on artists Emma Talbot (2022), Secundino Hernández (2022), Daniel Rich (2022), Tess Jaray (2022), Prabhavathi Meppayil (2022) and Fabienne Verdier (2020).

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