Anastasia Parmson is an award winning artist born in Estonia. She has Siberian roots, a French education and is currently living and working in Sydney, Australia.

Anastasia received a Master’s in Visual Arts from Strasbourg University in 2009 and then embarked on multiple life-changing adventures on sea, land and in-between.

Traveling a lot and living in several countries around the world has meant that she is constantly searching for belonging in unfamiliar places, while inevitably remaining an outsider. Drawing has been her way to create pockets of intimacy and to trace her place in the world.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at National Art School and MAY SPACE Gallery in Australia, Megan Dickinson Gallery in New Zealand, Tallinn Light Biennale in Estonia, Apollonia Art Exchanges in France, and more.

Anastasia has been featured in multiple blogs and publications such as Articulate Magazine, Create! Magazine and Colossal.

In 2021 she received a Create NSW Arts and Cultural Funding Grant toward creating her biggest immersive installation work yet, which was first exhibited at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.

Anastasia is currently working on several new projects from her City of Sydney Creative Studios workspace.

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Exhibitions

2022 I Drew A Line And Called it Home, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor NSW

2022 The Other Art Fair, Sydney

2021 I Drew A Line And Called it Home, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst NSW

2020 Creative Heads, Reyburn House Gallery, Whangarei NZ

2020 My Black And White World, Megan Dickinson Gallery, Whangarei NZ

2019 Whangarei Heads Arts Trail

2018 Contemporart Art Awards 2018 Finalist Exhibition

2017 Out Of Line, MAY SPACE, Sydney

2017 Public art installation, Kilometre of Sculpture x Tallinn Art Week, Tallinn

2017 Artist Looking For A Friend, 107 Projects, Sydney

2016 Spectrum Miami via Artbox.Project, Miami, FL

2015-2016: Represented by Platform 72 Gallery, Sydney

2014 Kilometre of Sculpture, public art exhibition, Rakvere

2013 Luminous Utopias, Helios, Tallinn Light Biennale

2013 Anastasia Parmson, Rundum Artist-Run Space, Tallinn

2013 The Sketchbook Project Australia, University of Melbourne

2011 The Sketchbook Project Exhibition tour across USA, permanent collection of Brooklyn Art Library

2010 Alley Way Show - Collective exhibition with local artists, Melville St, Hobart

2009 MA Final Works Exhibition - Apollonia, Strasbourg (Curated by Germain Roesz and Jean-François Robic)

2009 La poste restante - Site specific project realized with children of the local community - Lupovino association, Strasbourg

2008 Rhenalia Festival, Strasbourg

2008 Now You See Me, Now You Don't Exhibition-event with Diane Albisser-Rostalski, Diego Militello, Mathilde Benignus - Apollonia, Strasbourg (curated by Anastasia Parmson)

Publications

2022 Articulate Magazine issue 31: Installation / Illustration – Anastasia Parmson

2020 NZ Herald: Lockdown creativity and black and white world

2020 The Big Idea: Far Out World In Far North

2019 Create! Magazine blog: Creating Environments Through Drawing With Anastasia Parmson

2018 Create! Magazine issue 12 | Art Miami 2018 edition

2018 Contemporary Art Awards 2018 Finalist Exhibition Catalogue

2015 Interiors Addict: Artist’s unique work: inspired by travel and starting as photography

2014 Embody Your Muse: Creative Spotlight - Anastasia Parmson

2014 Artishok: Kilometre of Sculpture, opening day

2010 EatSleepDraw Magazine #004

2009 Laniol (toujours IN) – artist book, unique copy

2007 La Critique à l'œuvre – Cahiers/Chroniques nº 17 - UFR Arts, Marc Bloch University

2007 Couic – poetry booklet – UFR Arts Marc Bloch University

Performances

2009 Out of the Crowd Festival – Kulturfabrik, Luxembourg

2007 Floating Poetry "Travail" - Riverboat on an industrial route around Strasbourg

2007 Airs de Jeux - Municipal School of Dance, Strasbourg

2007 Proèmes/actions - BMS Multimedia Library of Neudorf, Strasbourg

2007 Conference cycle on Guy Debord and the "Society of the Spectacle" - Auditorium of MAMCS (Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Strasbourg)

2007 Action-Poetry With L’épongistes and Serge Pey - Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg

2005 10th Mystère de Noël: "Jardin des origines" Musical show - Cathedral of Strasbourg

Education

2014 Course Creativity: Music to My Ears - Stanford University through NovoEd

2009 Master's Degree in Visual Arts - University of Strasbourg

Thesis: In-Between As a State of Imbalance in Perpetual Renewal (L'entre-deux comme état de déséquilibre en devenir perpétuel)

2007 Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts - University Marc Bloch, Strasbourg

2001 - 2004 Fine Arts School - Vanalinna Hariduskolleegium, Tallinn

Awards

2021 Create NSW Arts & Cultural Funding Program Grant

2008 Rhenalia Festival: Second prize for installation "Die Poesie der Nachbarn se lit entre les lignes"

2007 Tohu Bohu short film festival: First regional award for animation "Bienvenu à bord / I Like You Deep Inside"

2006 Estonian National Culture Fund Scholarship for studies abroad

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