Despacito Art School with Flora Parrott

28 + 29 July 2025
10am – 3pm
Open School East

Artist Flora Parrott joined Despacito to explore the interrelations between living and more than living bodies that make up our personal ecosystems, making collograph prints with found materials and impressions. Despacito explored how to do this with everyday materials such as bubblewrap, used packaging and other small found objects.

Despacito developed these into a collective, multi-part sculpture using discarded branches from a brushwood pile at a local allotment. The branched sculptures were exhibited at Roland Ross gallery on Northdown Road as part of the exhibition Home is where the garden is (2025).

Flora Parrott is an artist based in Kent working in sculpture, print and textiles. Flora trained in Printmaking at both The Glasgow School of Art and The Royal College of Art. Her work explores interior landscapes of the body, thinking through unseen workings and sensations that occur under the skin. The work, often taking the form of tableau or 3-dimensional collage, uses natural forms and everyday objects and experiences to reimagine the mysteries of blurry ultrasound images, the insides of deep, dark pockets and the points at which inside meets outside. 

Flora is an Associate Lecturer in Print at the Royal College of Art and a post-doctoral researcher on the ERC funded project Think Deep based in the Geography Department at Royal Holloway University London. Recent exhibitions include ‘Hollow Earth’ with Hayward Touring and ‘Darkness Retreat’ commissioned by Legion Projects.

This workshop is part of Open School East’s 2024-26 thematic cycle Home is where the garden is –  find out more here: openschooleast.org/home-is