Overview
'My paintings are meticulously rendered through soft films of oil on linen to look as though they are drawn, dyed or printed. My interest is in painting's in/extrinsic conventions and the technical problems of the medium. Central to my invented vocabulary are: the frame, flatness, surface, transparency, trompe l'oeil illusion, bands and units of isolated colour, repetition (with variation and displacement), frontality and the singularly-framed and fixed view, and the re-presentation of art and context.
The paintings are effectively diagrams or templates; illusion is codified through shaded bands and colour is in-laid as if through a process of marquetry. Colour is a veil (not a skin). The literal transparency of colour borrows from the white primer beneath so that colour glows as if lit from behind. This backlit quality is reminiscent of the screen and photograph. The analogue apes the digital; whilst the space of painting is imagined as a two-dimensional stage space that curtails fictive distance as it represents it.'
- Selma Parlour
Works
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Salon II, 2022
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Salon IX, 2022
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Salon VI, 2022
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Sepia II, 2020
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Sepia III, 2020
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Sepia V, 2020
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Salon IV, 2022
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Eftsoons IV, 2021
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Eftsoons IX, 2021
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Eftsoons V, 2021
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Eftsoons VII, 2021
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Eftsoons VIII, 2021
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Eftsoons XI, 2021
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Affirming Difference, 2020
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Double negative I, 2020
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Double negative II , 2020
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Code Margin Frame Complete, 2019
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Four ways from Sunday I, 2019
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Four ways from Sunday II, 2019
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Cloud II, 2017
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Cloud III, 2017
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Detail Shot Memory 1, 2017
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Invented vocabulary IV, 2017
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Upright animal II, 2017
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A place for placeholders, 2016
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Eleventh hour, 2016
Exhibitions
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Selma Parlour
Yonder Cloud 6 - 28 Oct 2022 LondonPi Artworks London is delighted to present Yonder Cloud, award-winning painter Selma Parlour's third solo exhibition at the gallery from the 6th-28th October.Read more
Having created a unique visual vocabulary comprising framing, surface, flatness, transparency, trompe l'oeil illusion, repetition and of course, colour, Selma Parlour is known for her meticulous oil paintings that appear as though drawn, dyed, or printed.
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An Ode to Orlando
Curated by Marcelle Joseph 4 - 26 Feb 2022 London'I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.' 'For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more than we have been able to...Read more -
Osman Dinc | Maude Maris | Selma Parlour | Kemal Seyhan
Intersections 1 Sep - 2 Oct 2021 LondonPi Artworks London is delighted to present Intersections, a group exhibition comprising work by Osman Dinc (b.1948, Turkey), Maude Maris (b.1980, France), Selma Parlour (b.1976, United Kingdom) and Kemal Seyhan...Read more -
Selma Parlour
Selma Parlour 12 Nov 2020 - 30 Jan 2021 IstanbulSelma Parlour is known for her meticulously rendered oil paintings that appear as though they're drawn or printed.Her self-styled coda to historic abstract painting and minimalism reassesses in/extrinsic conventions from...Read more -
Selma Parlour
Activities for the Abyss 21 Nov 2019 - 11 Jan 2020 LondonPi Artworks London is pleased to present Activities for the Abyss, London-based painter Selma Parlour’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Selma Parlour is a prolific award-winning artist known...Read more -
Selma Parlour
Upright Animal 5 Jan - 10 Feb 2018 LondonPi Artworks London is pleased to present Upright Animal, the inaugural exhibition of London-based painter Selma Parlour at Pi Artworks, where she joins our roster of international artists. All of the works are new and never before exhibited. The show is curated by Sacha Craddock who participated in the gallery’s latest curatorial season with the exhibition Strike Site.Read more
Biography
Selma Parlour, b.1976, London, lives and works in London, UK
Major exhibitions include; Feeling of Light (group), Almine Rech Gallery, Brussles (2023); Climbing the Underside of the Ladder (group), cur. by EC, Jenny Hager, David Leapman, Christine Stark, Durden and Dray Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2022); Warp & Weft (solo), Dio Horia Acropolis, Athens, Greece (2022); Yonder Cloud (solo), Pi Artworks, London, UK (2022); Ode to Orlando, Marcelle Joseph Projects, Pi Artworks, London, UK (2022); Superfice, Coleman Projects, London, UK (2021); The Long Echo, Terrace Gallery, London, UK (2021); Selma Parlour (solo), Pi Artworks Istanbul, Turkey (2020); By Way of Laughter and Trembling, Durden & Ray, Los Angeles, USA (2020); Notions of Female Leadership, Dio Horia, Athens, Greece (2020); Activities for the Abyss (solo), Pi Artworks London, UK (2019); Women Imprinted, The h Club Gallery, London, UK (2019); Upright Animal (solo), cur. Sacha Craddock, Pi Artworks, London, UK (2018); Parlour Games (solo), Marcelle Joseph Projects (solo), House of St Barnabas, London (2016); Paradoxes of the Flattened-Out Cavity (solo), Dio Horia, Mykonos (2015); Selma Parlour (solo), MOT International Projects, London, UK (2012); Selma Parlour and Yelena Popova, Horton Gallery, NY, USA (2012); and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA, London, UK (2011). In 2014, Parlour was selected for Thames and Hudson's international competition and publication 100 Painters of Tomorrow. Parlour was granted Arts Council England Creative Development Award (2020) and the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Award (2018). She was the recipient of the Sunny Dupree Family Award for a Woman Artist at the Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2017) and was a Prizewinner at the John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Gallery, Liverpool (2016). Major collections include; Creative Cities Collections, Beijing and the Saatchi Gallery, London.
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Events
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ART SG
LONDON / ISTANBUL-BASED GALLERY BRINGS 7 AWARD-WINNING ARTISTS TO SINGAPORE IN 2024 19 - 21 Jan 2024Pi Artworks is delighted to participate in Art Singapore 2024 with a roster of seven artists, whose individual practices tackle the human experiences that shape...Read more -
Art Basel Hong Kong
23 - 25 Mar 2023Featuring and highlighting premier galleries across Asia and beyond, Art Basel Hong Kong began in 2013. Through its diverse range of international galleries it provides...Read more -
ART SG
London / Istanbul-Based Gallery Brings 6 Award-Winning Artists to Singapore in 2023 12 - 15 Jan 2023Pi Artworks is delighted to participate in Art Singapore 2023 with a roster of seven award-winning artists, whose individual practices tackle the human experiences that...Read more -
Selma Parlour I CLIMBING THE UNDERSIDE OF THE LADDER (41 YEARS AFTER A NEW SPIRIT IN PAINTING)
Group Show I Curated by EC, Jenny Hager, David Leapman and Christine Stark 15 Oct - 5 Nov 2022Climbing the Underside of the Ladder brings together 10 UK and 5 LA painters 41 years after the seminal British exhibition “A New Spirit in...Read more -
SELMA PARLOUR | WARP & WEFT
Selma Parlour solo show at Dio Horia Gallery 17 Sep - 17 Oct 2022Selma Parlour is a prolific award-winning artist known for her oil paintings that look as though they are drawn, dyed, or printed. Born in Johannesburg...Read more -
Artissima 2021
MAIN SECTION 5 - 7 Nov 2021Pi Artworks is pleased to be a part of MAIN SECTION at Artissima 2021, Oval, Torino. Hall: WHITE | Booth: 12 Artists presented: Fabio...Read more -
Artissima
Mustafa Hulusi, Maude Maris, Selma Parlour 5 Nov - 9 Dec 2020Pi Artworks is delighted to participate to Artissima this year with works from Mustafa Hulusi, Maude Maris, Selma Parlour. For more informationRead more