Anastasia Parmson is a multicultural artist born in Estonia with Siberian roots, a French education and is currently living and working between Sydney and Oberon in Australia.
Parmson creates immersive drawing installations that challenge conventional boundaries between two and three dimensions. Her practice investigates notions of home, belonging and cultural displacement — themes that resonate with contemporary global dialogues about identity and place.
After receiving her MFA from Strasbourg University in 2009, Parmson has exhibited internationally, including at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and MAY SPACE in Australia, Megan Dickinson Gallery in New Zealand, Tallinn Light Biennale in Estonia, and Apollonia Art Exchanges in France.
Parmson’s work has been featured in multiple publications such as Colossal, Create! Magazine and on the cover of Articulate Magazine. In 2023 she was published in Studio Visit Book - A Visual Journey through Creative Spaces & Processes of Rising Women in the Arts.
Her work has been recognised as a finalist in significant contemporary drawing awards, including Paul Guest Prize, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award and the prestigious Dobell Drawing Prize. In 2021, she received a Create NSW Arts and Cultural Funding Grant toward creating her most ambitious installation to date, I Drew A Line And Called It Home.
In late 2023, Parmson launched The Installation Art Podcast, providing a vital platform for discourse around installation practices through conversations with established and emerging practitioners. She has also facilitated diversity-focused creative workshops for City of Ryde council (2025), extending her practice into community engagement.
Parmson works from her rural home studio in the Central Tablelands of NSW, Australia.
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2023-2025 Dobell Drawing Prize #23 finalist exhibition and tour, National Art School, Darlinghurst NSW and regional galleries around Australia
2023 M16 Artspace Drawing Prize finalist exhibition, Canberra ACT
2022-2024 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award finalist exhibition and tour, Grafton Regional Gallery and regional galleries across Australia
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: Platform 72 Gallery, Sydney
2014 Kilometre of Sculpture, public art exhibition, Rakvere EST
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
2008 Rhenalia Festival, Strasbourg
2008 Now You See Me, Now You Don't Exhibition-event, Apollonia, Strasbourg FR (curated by Anastasia Parmson)
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2025 Experimental Residency at DRAW Space, Sydney
2023 Dobell Drawing Prize #23 finalist
2023 M16 Artspace Drawing Prize finalist
2023 Collabor8Women Prize finalist
2022 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize finalist
2022 Paul Guest Prize finalist & People's Choice winner
2022 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award finalist
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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2023-… The Installation Art Podcast – creator and host of the world’s number one podcast about installation art
2023 Studio Visit Book: A Visual Journey Through Creative Spaces & Processes of Rising Women in the Arts, Arts To Hearts publishing
2023 Acumen issue 31: Le Fascinant Monde en 2D d’Anastasia Parmson
2022 Colossal: Quaint and Deceptive Hand-Drawn Installations Question the Concept of Home And Belonging
2022 My Modern Met: Artist Transforms 3D Into 2D in a Mind-Bending Installation About Finding Home
2022 Articulate Magazine issue 31 cover: 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
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2025 Workshop series Common Threads for City of Ryde Council, Sydney
2009 Performance at Out of the Crowd Festival, Kulturfabrik, Luxembourg
2009 La poste restante – Site specific project realized with children of the local community, Lupovino association, Strasbourg FR
2008 Workshop with Jan Kopp to construct his in-situ project Ungebautes at FRAC (Regional Fund for Contemporary Art) Alsace, Séléstat FR
2007 Performance for Floating Poetry "Travail" - Riverboat on an industrial route around Strasbourg
2007 Performance Airs de Jeux - Municipal School of Dance, Strasbourg
2007 Performance Proèmes/actions - BMS Multimedia Library of Neudorf, Strasbourg
2007 Performance at Conference on Guy Debord and the "Society of the Spectacle" - Auditorium of MAMCS (Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Strasbourg)
2007 Action-Poetry Performance With L’épongistes and Serge Pey - Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg
2005 10th Mystère de Noël: "Jardin des origines" Audio-visual show - Cathedral of Strasbourg
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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
