Flora Parrott’s work is rooted in a compulsion to investigate and manifest the intangible. She makes three-dimensional diagrams to pin down and articulate instinctive experiences. Employing a diverse range of media, Parrott experiments to find textures and configurations that interact and resonate.

Parrott won an Arts Council/British Council Artists’ International Development Fund Award to travel to Brazil and develop the project that has become Fixed Position. In 2013 she went to the PETAR Caves, one of the largest concentrations of limestone caves in the world. The tactile, sensory experience of being in the caves channelled her thinking about certainty of position, fixity and the way we are defined by our edges. “The further I go into a cave, the more disorientated I become. The blackness is so dense that you can’t see the edge of your own form.” These ideas of ‘merging’ and ‘nowhere-ness’ have parallels with her attempts to describe the navigation of virtual space.

Fixed Position is a UK/Brazil collaboration, co-curated by Maria Montero, director of Phosphorus Gallery in São Paulo, where it will have a second iteration.