Ione Parkin is the co-founder and lead artist of the international art-science project Creativity and Curiosity. Ione is engaging in conversations and collaborations with astrophysicists, cosmologists, solar scientists and planetary geologists. She is developing a growing body of artwork inspired by the rich imagery of space and her ongoing dialogue with researchers.  Parallels of process have emerged between the artists and scientists - an excitement about uncertainty, ambiguity and anomaly - a desire not just to observe but to look beyond. This artist-led project explores the nature of interdisciplinarity within the practice of visual thinking.

Ione Parkin’s large-scale paintings express her fascination about the formation of the universe; massive clouds of cosmic dust and gas, vast webs of colour and shimmering light; solar dynamics; luminous visions of immensity

Her richly texture mixed-media works on paper respond to planetary surfaces, extremes of temperature and geological process. Theses works resemble samples of the undiscovered terrain of distant moons; fragment of an iron-rich formation; young planet in the throes of intense volcanic activity; surface texture of glacial ravines and fissures which echo the hyper-cold regions of other worlds or vast oceans of frozen nitrogen.

Ione Parkin RWA

Royal West of England Academician

Honorary Visiting Fellow, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester

Grants: Arts Council England, Royal Astronomical Society, Hope Scott Trust

“I always think the work you do is amazing and beautiful. It is as if you are creating your own universe of planets, stars and galaxies. Ione’s paintings seem to represent all the possible surfaces of the planets from frozen worlds in the depths of planetary chill to hot sulphuric young worlds just forming from the nebulae surrounding their host stars.” Martin Barstow, Professor of Astrophysics & Space Science, University of Leicester.

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