Arch comics and graphic tales
Janette Parris is an artist who investigates the contemporary urban experience, using narrative, humour and popular formats, including soap opera, stand-up comedy, musical theatre, cartoons, comics and animation. Parris has exhibited widely, nationally and internationally, for 25 years, includingTATE,The New Art GalleryWalsall, ICA, Kunsthaus Zürich, Hayward Gallery Touring, Art on the Underground and the Royal Academy of Arts and was one of six lead contemporary artists selected for Museums at Night 2014. Parris is the founder of Arch, an established comic which was included in the largest UK comics exhibition, ‘Comics Unmasked’, at the British Library.