HEATHER PARRISH

Heather Parrish is a multi-disciplinary artist who grew up between Southeast Asia and the southern United States. Her work explores boundaries—whether social, personal, or natural. Using an expanded form of printmaking that includes translucent materials, light projections, paper installations, and experimental photography, she challenges simple opposites like inside/outside and belonging/otherness. Her work invites viewers to see boundaries not as fixed lines, but as dynamic spaces for connection and transformation.

As an Austin native with family traces to the city’s founding, Parrish explores these threads through historical layers of terrain and urban development that focuses on Waller Creek remembered (sometimes forgotten) as a dividing border line between black and white communities that runs through the city of Austin.  Waller Creeks flood during the early 20th century was documented with photographs that Parrish uses. The photogravures were printed, deconstructed and assembled in a chine collé process.