About the Artist:

 

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Cerena Parkinson is a multidisciplinary artist and writer who was awarded the Emery Prize for her MFA research at The Ruskin School of Art in 2025. She is the recipient of The Drawing Year 2026 Scholarship at the Royal Drawing School and is based in London. She has exhibited in New York City, Surrey and London. She has exhibited in the Pastel Society Exhibition 2025 & 2026 at The Mall Galleries. The intersectional politics of Cerena’s identity as a Jamaican American woman shapes her artistic practice and academic research.

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Cerena’s Emery Prize exhibition entitled Paradise is an installation of multidisciplinary artwork that represents generational experiences of migration through an autobiographical ens. The foundation of this work is “The Parenthetical Theory”, which Cerena has coined, researched and authored.

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