THREAD SUNS
Anna Higgins ~ Aimée Parrott
26 April- 14 June 2025
Mayfair, London
IONE & MANN is pleased to present Thread Suns, a two person exhibition with new and recent work by Anna Higgins and Aimée Parrott. Working in creative dialogue within their distinctive practices, the artists engage in a rhythmic conversation between materiality, colour and composition at the threshold between the tangible and what is intuitively felt, exploring the experiential wonder of a boundaryless world.
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Each measurement plotted, somehow cell by cell, from hair to hair, each follicle and every microcosmic separate part, formed, substantiated, transubstantiated and each movement forwards a part of a universal measurement in several directions. Cosmic and infinitesimal, intergalactic and intramolecular. The width of a mite on a cat’s dander, how deeply a nipple can be pushed into moss, dapple on the water, the height of the moon. Forms and lines fracture out from themselves, wild, solemn, no central core, no hub, crossing, crisscrossing like a graph or chart or some kind of web, beneath the topsoil, damp in the earth way down beneath the tree, the ferns, that pool, and yes, across the light, the air as well, existing only to continue. Directionless and relentless. The ground humming, incessantly humming, fizzing, crackling, the graph lines following then bisecting a ley, traversing a burrow. And the surface, the lambency of things and an entire electromagnetic spectrum of colour is no more or less than the invisible, the sub-terrestrial, the fungal. It’s the same. Instincts and impulses, floral, faunal, the pleasure of a certain pillow of earth, the meaning of a gentle breeze, a reflection, the plant nodding into the sunlight. The fur shivers and with the same breath, the dandelion seed delicately bests a vortex, just like that, right across the pond. Spores born in the airs that carry them, particles in the light and the light itself, always together, never and the same.
_ Text by Paul Becker
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ABOUT
Anna Higgins (b. 1991 Melbourne)
Anna Higgins’ expanded image-based practice incorporates found archival and contemporary material, as well as her own images and film, which are abstracted and re-contextualized through collage, painting, drawing, and film photography to form new perceptions and poetic interpretations. Working experimentally at large scale on paper, recent interests have been an inquiry into atmospheric light, colour and visual music, aiming to evoke the experiential and immaterial elements of depicting the natural landscape.
Higgins completed her post graduate degree at the Royal Academy Schools in 2023 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013. Recent exhibitions include: Love Theme, Negative Press, Melbourne (solo), Afterimage, The Artist Room, London, The Flowering of the Strange Orchid, Peles, Berlin, Photography: Real and Imagined, National Gallery of Victoria in 2024; Viewfinding, Sapling, London, Immaterialism, Mackintosh Lane, London, New Paintings, Sonya Gallery, New York, Stargazing, Museum of Australian Photography, The Amber Room, Matt’s Gallery, London in 2023; A Place Beyond Heaven, ReadingRoom, Melbourne in 2022 (solo). Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, the Museum of Australian Photography and the Australian National University Art Collection.
Anna Higgins was the 2021 artist in residence at the Australian Archaeological Institute in Athens, and is co-director of Mackintosh Lane, London. She lives and works in London, UK.
Aimée Parrott (b. 1987, Brighton)
Aimée Parrott’s practice comprises painting, printing, drawing, sculpture and installation. The artist’s understanding of painting, her primary medium, informs ideas expressed throughout her practice as a whole. Approaching the canvas as a fragile and permeable boundary - a metaphorical skin or body that holds the trace of time, thought and gesture - Parrott explores notions of transformation, connectivity and exchange. She makes use of the fluidity of the mono- printing process to create bodies of work where rhythmic gestures and forms repeat seeming to echo; growing, fading, regenerating within a self-perpetuating framework.
Recent works continue to explore the disjunction between internal sensations and exterior impressions with works that hover between gesture and form, suggesting hybridity, metamorphosis and a symbiotic blurring of boundaries.
Parrott completed her post graduate degree at the Royal Academy Schools in 2014 and her BA in Fine Art at University College Falmouth in 2009. Recent exhibitions include Waterborne, a solo presentation at Parafin, London in 2023, Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water at Pallant House Gallery between November 2022 and April 2023, as well as group shows at Saatchi gallery, Lyndsey Ingram, London and Harper’s, New York in 2024 and Larsen Warner, Stockholm in 2025. Parrott was part of the gallery’s inaugural exhibition ART ROOMS | The Inaugural Edition in 2016. Her work is held in the Arts Council Collection.
Aimée Parrott has participated in several residencies including Xenia Creative Retreat in North Hampshire, UK and Artists league of New York in the US. She lives and works in Brighton, UK.
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NOTES:
The exhibition title was inspired by Fadensonnen, a poem by Paul Celan (1967) as translated by Pierre Joris (2000).
Paul Becker is an artist and writer. He is currently exhibiting in ‘Hereafter’ curated by Simon Moretti at Swedenborg House, London. A new book, ‘Good Work’ will be published by JOAN publishing. in May. He lives and works in London.
Images: (1) Aimée Parrott, Songs to sing beyond mankind, 2025 [detail] (2) Anna Higgins, Kiss 2 (Afterimage), 2024 (3) Invitation image by Anna Higgins; Artwork copyright © The Artists; Photography by Matt Spour, Courtesy of IONE & MANN.