about

Hi! I’m Alexis Parinas, a London-based artist and arts facilitator working across moving image, eco-printing, collage, and social practice. Informed largely by the intangible cultural heritage of the Philippines, my work often explores temporality, ephemerality, transformation, and communality. My practice is grounded in discovering, nurturing, imagining, and passing down complex and expansive worlds.

Primarily an arts facilitator, I’ve led a variety of engagement projects for schools, universities, youth groups, community groups, and arts organisations across the UK, including South London Gallery, Wysing Arts Centre, and Central Saint Martins. Particularly as a working-class creative without a formal education, I’m keen to help foster meaningful arts engagement, especially among young people, marginalised communities, and the intersections thereof.

My work has been presented at the Barbican Centre, Wysing Arts Centre, not/nowhere, and at both Millennium Film Workshop and San Mei Gallery as part of Film Diary NYC. Current presentations include: ‘There are so many seeds, so many stars’, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire; and ‘Markets, Memories and Mangoes’, Creative People and Places Hounslow, London. I am also part of ‘Syllabus VII’, a collaboratively produced alternative learning programme developed by Wysing Arts Centre in partnership with Eastside Projects, Birmingham, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, PS2, Belfast, Spike Island, Bristol, TACO, Thamesmead, and Studio Voltaire, London.

Full CV available upon request.