laura.parke@live.co.uk
@laura.parke
laura2.parke@uwe.ac.uk
@typenowhere
@laura.parke
laura2.parke@uwe.ac.uk
@typenowhere
Studio
Mivart Studios, Bristol
StExhibitions / Talks / Workshops
2025
imperfect index 3. The Watershed, Bristol.Pushing for Plurality: imperfect index is deconstructing the outdated graphic design canon. It’s Nice That.
2024
imperfect index 2 + book launch, imperfect index Vol.1. The Watershed, Bristol.
2023
VI AIS/Design Conference. The roots of expanded design. What futures for the history of design? Bovisa-Durando Campus, Milan.
imperfect index. The Watershed, Bristol.
2021
Ride Your Pony 4. Abingdon Studios, Blackpool.
Communities of Practice. ERL, School of Art, Liverpool.
Into the Void Part 2. GDEN, online.
Into the Void Part 1. GDEN, online.
In Tandem with Kochi Kochi, online.
Professional Practice Lecture. BHSAD, Moscow.
2020
I don’t love Soccer, but my sister does. Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival.
Ride Your Pony 3. Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival.
Sign Club (5 sessions). School of Art, Liverpool.
2019
Bound Art Book Fair. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Ride Your Pony 3. Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival.
SUES pt 2. Shanghai University of Engineering Science.
SUES pt 1. School of Art, Liverpool.
2018
Ride Your Pony 2. Liverpool Independants Biennial.
I Don’t Love Soccer Art of Football. Camp & Furnace, Liverpool.
Of Rights & Resistance. International Slavery Museum, Liverpool.
Ride your Pony 1. School of Art, Liverpool.
2017
Keen for Ken (paper). GDEN, Sheffield Hallam University
Ride your Pony 1. Islington Mill, Salford.
#collecting_collecting. School of Art, Liverpool.
Keen for Ken. Grizedale Forest, Lake District.
Molecular. School of Art, Liverpool.
2025
imperfect index 3. The Watershed, Bristol.Pushing for Plurality: imperfect index is deconstructing the outdated graphic design canon. It’s Nice That.
2024
imperfect index 2 + book launch, imperfect index Vol.1. The Watershed, Bristol.
2023
VI AIS/Design Conference. The roots of expanded design. What futures for the history of design? Bovisa-Durando Campus, Milan.
imperfect index. The Watershed, Bristol.
2021
Ride Your Pony 4. Abingdon Studios, Blackpool.
Communities of Practice. ERL, School of Art, Liverpool.
Into the Void Part 2. GDEN, online.
Into the Void Part 1. GDEN, online.
In Tandem with Kochi Kochi, online.
Professional Practice Lecture. BHSAD, Moscow.
2020
I don’t love Soccer, but my sister does. Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival.
Ride Your Pony 3. Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival.
Sign Club (5 sessions). School of Art, Liverpool.
2019
Bound Art Book Fair. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Ride Your Pony 3. Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival.
SUES pt 2. Shanghai University of Engineering Science.
SUES pt 1. School of Art, Liverpool.
2018
Ride Your Pony 2. Liverpool Independants Biennial.
I Don’t Love Soccer Art of Football. Camp & Furnace, Liverpool.
Of Rights & Resistance. International Slavery Museum, Liverpool.
Ride your Pony 1. School of Art, Liverpool.
2017
Keen for Ken (paper). GDEN, Sheffield Hallam University
Ride your Pony 1. Islington Mill, Salford.
#collecting_collecting. School of Art, Liverpool.
Keen for Ken. Grizedale Forest, Lake District.
Molecular. School of Art, Liverpool.
Teaching at
Senior Lecturer, BA Graphic Design
University of the West of England [2021–present]
Link Tutor, BA Graphic Design, Hong Kong Design Institute [2024]
Taught with
Programme Leader BA Graphic Design & Illustration, Liverpool John Moores University [2014–2021]
Senior Lecturer BA Graphic Design & Illustration, British Higher School of Art & Design, Moscow [2010–2012]
Associate Lecturer, BA Graphic Design, Southampton Solent University, [2009–2010]
External examiner at
University of Creative Arts, Farnham [2024–2028]
University of Northampton [2024–2028]
Committee member of
Graphic Designer Educators Network (GDEN) Committee Member [2021–2024]
Mencap South Sefton & Liverpool Trustee [2018–2022]
Senior Lecturer, BA Graphic Design
University of the West of England [2021–present]
Link Tutor, BA Graphic Design, Hong Kong Design Institute [2024]
Taught with
Programme Leader BA Graphic Design & Illustration, Liverpool John Moores University [2014–2021]
Senior Lecturer BA Graphic Design & Illustration, British Higher School of Art & Design, Moscow [2010–2012]
Associate Lecturer, BA Graphic Design, Southampton Solent University, [2009–2010]
External examiner at
University of Creative Arts, Farnham [2024–2028]
University of Northampton [2024–2028]
Committee member of
Graphic Designer Educators Network (GDEN) Committee Member [2021–2024]
Mencap South Sefton & Liverpool Trustee [2018–2022]