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- Professor of Fine Art
- The Slade School of Fine Art
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Jayne Parker is an artist and filmmaker whose work has been widely shown, both nationally and internationally, in major art institutions, on television and in film and music festivals. In 2003 she was the recipient of the 1871 Fellowship, researching the relationship between music and film, hosted by the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford and the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2008 she completed Trilogy: Kettle's Yard, funded with the help of an AHRC Small Award and the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and premiered at The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival, October 2008. In 2011 she presented a retrospective of her films at the BFI Southbank as part of Maya Deren: 50 Years On, a celebration of the American film maker's life.
DVD:
Jayne Parker, British Artists Film, film compilation DVD, released by BFI, 2008.
MONOGRAPH:
Jayne Parker Filmworks 79-00, published by Spacex Gallery, Exeter, 2000, ISBN 09507516 69.
FILMOGRAPHY
Free Show - 16mm, b/w, 16 minutes, 1979.
I Cat - 16mm, colour animation, 10 minutes, 1980.
RX Recipe - 16mm, colour, 12 minutes, 1980.
I Dish - 16mm, b/w, 16 minutes, 1982.
Snig - 16mm, colour, mute, 6 minutes, 1982.
Almost Out - U-matic video, 105 minutes, 1984.
En Route - U-matic video, 15 minutes, 1986.
The Cat and the Woman - 16mm, colour animation, 2.5 minutes, 1987.
K. - 16mm, b/w, 13 minutes, 1989.
The Pool - 16mm, b/w, 10 minutes, 1991.
Cold Jazz - 16mm, b/w, 17 minutes,1993. Awarded Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival, 1995.
Crystal Aquarium - 16mm, b/w, 33 minutes,1995. Awarded the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen and a ‘Mention Spéciale’ from FIPRESCI at the 43rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 1997. Collection: Arts Council, England.
The Reunion - 16mm, colour, 9 minutes, Dance for Camera ACE/BBC, 1997.
Thinking Twice - 16mm, b/w, 10 minutes, 1997.
The Whirlpool - 16mm, colour, 7 minutes, 1997.
Strong Women - 16mm film, b/w, 15 minutes, 2000.
Foxfire Eins - Digibeta from original 16mm, b/w, 10 minutes, 2000.
Blues in B-flat - Digibeta from original 16mm, colour, 8 minutes, 2000. Collection: Museion, Bolzano, Italy.
Projection 1 (versions 1 and 2) - Digibeta from original 16mm, b/w, 6 minutes, 2000
591/2 seconds (versions 1 -3) - 16mm, b/w, 3 minutes, 2000
The World Turned Upside Down - Digibeta from original 16mm, colour, 9 minutes, Dance for Camera ACE/BBC, 2001
Reprise - Digibeta from original 16mm colour, 10 minutes 2001
Stationary Music - Digibeta from original 16mm, b/w, 15 minutes, 2005. Awarded the ARTE Prize at the 51st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2005 & an Honourable Mention at Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 2006.
Catalogue of Birds:Book 3 - Digibeta from original 16mm, b/w, 15 minutes, 2006..
Trilogy: Kettle's Yard: Linear Construction - Woman with Arms Crossed - Arc - Digibeta from original 16mm, b/w & colour, 25 minutes, 2008. Received an Honourable Mention at Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 2009.
...but the clouds... - DVD, 15 minutes, with John Tilbury, Samuel Beckett's 1976 play for television, 2009.
Films distributed by LUX


Over the past few years my major research has centered round the relationship between music and film and the search for a 'music equivalent'. To this end I have made several films featuring musicians, in particular with pianist Katharina Wolpe and cellist Anton Lukoszeviesze. Considering music helps me to think about film structurally. It presents challenges: how can I reflect the form and rigour of the music? Can film embody music? Where is music expressed? Does what I see change what I hear? I am fascinated by the act of playing, of touch, and the moment when someone becomes the performer. While still choosing to take the act and site of musical performance as my primary source of imagery, I am exploring ways of introducing other imagery, to interrupt the ultimate linearity of the score in performance and expand the filmic possibilities. Before I went on to study at the Slade, within what was then the Experimental Media area, I studied sculpture at Canterbury College of Art. My interest in material, the actual, the physical - is perhaps responsible for my abiding interest and commitment to working primarily with 16mm film (although most of my recent musical performance works are finished digitally because of the sound quality). This last year or so I've started making objects again. Photography, although secondary, has always run alongside my film-making.
I have been teaching at the Slade since 1989 and was appointed as Head of Graduate Fine Art Media in 2010.
2010 | Head of Graduate Fine Art Media | Slade School of Fine Art | UCL, United Kingdom |
1989 – 2010 | Part time lecturer | Slade School of Fine Art | UCL, United Kingdom |
1986 – 1989 | Part time lecturer | Fine Art Department | Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, United Kingdom |
1986 – 1989 | Part time lecturer | Space Workshop | Cardiff College of Art, United Kingdom |
1984 – 1999 | Part time lecturer | Fine Art Department | Goldsmiths' College, United Kingdom |
1983 – 1986 | Part time lecturer | Department of Communication Arts | Sheffield Polytechnic, United Kingdom |
1983 – 1988 | Part time lecturer | Fine Art Department | North East London Polytechnic, United Kingdom |
1982 | Higher Diploma in Fine Art | University College London | |
1980 | Bachelor of Arts (Honours) | Canterbury College of Art | |
1977 | Foundation Course | Mansfield College of Art |