Anastasia Parmson is an award winning artist born in Estonia. She has Siberian roots, a French education and is currently living and working in Sydney, Australia.
Anastasia received a Master’s in Visual Arts from Strasbourg University in 2009 and then embarked on multiple life-changing adventures on sea, land and in-between.
Traveling a lot and living in several countries around the world has meant that she is constantly searching for belonging in unfamiliar places, while inevitably remaining an outsider. Drawing has been her way to create pockets of intimacy and to trace her place in the world.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at National Art School and MAY SPACE Gallery in Australia, Megan Dickinson Gallery in New Zealand, Tallinn Light Biennale in Estonia, Apollonia Art Exchanges in France, and more.
Anastasia has been featured in multiple blogs and publications such as Articulate Magazine, Create! Magazine and Colossal.
In 2021 she received a Create NSW Arts and Cultural Funding Grant toward creating her biggest immersive installation work yet, which was first exhibited at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.
Anastasia is currently working on several new projects from her City of Sydney Creative Studios workspace.
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2023-2025 Dobell Drawing Prize #23 exhibition tour across Australia
2023 M16 Artspace Drawing Prize finalist exhibition
2022-2024 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award exhibition tour across Australia
2022 I Drew A Line And Called it Home, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor NSW
2022 The Other Art Fair, Sydney
2021 I Drew A Line And Called it Home, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst NSW
2020 Creative Heads, Reyburn House Gallery, Whangarei NZ
2020 My Black And White World, Megan Dickinson Gallery, Whangarei NZ
2019 Whangarei Heads Arts Trail
2018 Contemporart Art Awards 2018 Finalist Exhibition
2017 Out Of Line, MAY SPACE, Sydney
2017 Public art installation, Kilometre of Sculpture x Tallinn Art Week, Tallinn
2017 Artist Looking For A Friend, 107 Projects, Sydney
2016 Spectrum Miami via Artbox.Project, Miami, FL
2015-2016: Represented by Platform 72 Gallery, Sydney
2014 Kilometre of Sculpture, public art exhibition, Rakvere
2013 Luminous Utopias, Helios, Tallinn Light Biennale
2013 Anastasia Parmson, Rundum Artist-Run Space, Tallinn
2013 The Sketchbook Project Australia, University of Melbourne
2011 The Sketchbook Project Exhibition tour across USA, permanent collection of Brooklyn Art Library
2010 Alley Way Show - Collective exhibition with local artists, Melville St, Hobart
2009 MA Final Works Exhibition - Apollonia, Strasbourg (Curated by Germain Roesz and Jean-François Robic)
2009 La poste restante - Site specific project realized with children of the local community - Lupovino association, Strasbourg
2008 Rhenalia Festival, Strasbourg
2008 Now You See Me, Now You Don't Exhibition-event with Diane Albisser-Rostalski, Diego Militello, Mathilde Benignus - Apollonia, Strasbourg (curated by Anastasia Parmson)
2022 Articulate Magazine issue 31: Installation / Illustration – Anastasia Parmson
2020 NZ Herald: Lockdown creativity and black and white world
2020 The Big Idea: Far Out World In Far North
2019 Create! Magazine blog: Creating Environments Through Drawing With Anastasia Parmson
2018 Create! Magazine issue 12 | Art Miami 2018 edition
2018 Contemporary Art Awards 2018 Finalist Exhibition Catalogue
2015 Interiors Addict: Artist’s unique work: inspired by travel and starting as photography
2014 Embody Your Muse: Creative Spotlight - Anastasia Parmson
2014 Artishok: Kilometre of Sculpture, opening day
2010 EatSleepDraw Magazine #004
2009 Laniol (toujours IN) – artist book, unique copy
2007 La Critique à l'œuvre – Cahiers/Chroniques nº 17 - UFR Arts, Marc Bloch University
2007 Couic – poetry booklet – UFR Arts Marc Bloch University
2009 Out of the Crowd Festival – Kulturfabrik, Luxembourg
2007 Floating Poetry "Travail" - Riverboat on an industrial route around Strasbourg
2007 Airs de Jeux - Municipal School of Dance, Strasbourg
2007 Proèmes/actions - BMS Multimedia Library of Neudorf, Strasbourg
2007 Conference cycle on Guy Debord and the "Society of the Spectacle" - Auditorium of MAMCS (Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Strasbourg)
2007 Action-Poetry With L’épongistes and Serge Pey - Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg
2005 10th Mystère de Noël: "Jardin des origines" Musical show - Cathedral of Strasbourg
2014 Course Creativity: Music to My Ears - Stanford University through NovoEd
2009 Master's Degree in Visual Arts - University of Strasbourg
Thesis: In-Between As a State of Imbalance in Perpetual Renewal (L'entre-deux comme état de déséquilibre en devenir perpétuel)
2007 Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts - University Marc Bloch, Strasbourg
2001 - 2004 Fine Arts School - Vanalinna Hariduskolleegium, Tallinn
2023 Dobell Drawing Prize #23 finalist
2023 M16 Artspace Drawing Prize finalist
2023 Collabor8Women Prize finalist
2022 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize finalist
2022 Paul Guest Prize finalist & People's Choice winner
2022 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award finalist
2021 Create NSW Arts & Cultural Funding Program Grant
2008 Rhenalia Festival: Second prize for installation "Die Poesie der Nachbarn se lit entre les lignes"
2007 Tohu Bohu short film festival: First regional award for animation "Bienvenu à bord / I Like You Deep Inside"
2006 Estonian National Culture Fund Scholarship for studies abroad
