Paintings 2020–2024
Paintings 2020–2024
Daisy Parris
Daisy Parris’ first monograph published by Sim Smith spans four years of paintings and includes texts by Gina Birch, Skye Sherwin, Sue Tompkins, and Dr Hester Westley.
Daisy’s monumental, vividly hued and layered paintings pull the viewer in with an immediate intensity. In their work, language becomes a visual mark where excerpts of poetry are handwritten onto scraps and stitched across the canvas. The paintings channel raw emotions: vulnerability, identity, inner turmoil, resilience, and tenderness.
The design is rich in colour and texture: a matt coated stock for the image pages, a tactile paper for the text pages, a rough-textured kraft paper for the front and back matter, and pink endpapers – a colour that recurs in the paintings and text-based works. The cover is wrapped in a natural book cloth that echoes the canvas patches in the paintings.
The text is set in Zetkin, a contemporary sans-serif typeface with high-waisted uppercase letters and flaring stroke endings. Its wide style – used for page numbers, captions, and contributors’ names – adds character, while the layout reflects how some of the writings appear in the paintings.
Year: 2025
Client: Daisy Parris and Sim Smith Gallery, London
Publisher: Sim Smith Gallery, London
Publication, 24.5 × 30 cm, 216 pages
Photography: © The Book Photographer
Paintings 2020–2024
Paintings 2020–2024
Daisy Parris
Daisy Parris’ first monograph published by Sim Smith spans four years of paintings and includes texts by Gina Birch, Skye Sherwin, Sue Tompkins, and Dr Hester Westley.
Daisy’s monumental, vividly hued and layered paintings pull the viewer in with an immediate intensity. In their work, language becomes a visual mark where excerpts of poetry are handwritten onto scraps and stitched across the canvas. The paintings channel raw emotions: vulnerability, identity, inner turmoil, resilience, and tenderness.
The design is rich in colour and texture: a matt coated stock for the image pages, a tactile paper for the text pages, a rough-textured kraft paper for the front and back matter, and pink endpapers – a colour that recurs in the paintings and text-based works. The cover is wrapped in a natural book cloth that echoes the canvas patches in the paintings.
The text is set in Zetkin, a contemporary sans-serif typeface with high-waisted uppercase letters and flaring stroke endings. Its wide style – used for page numbers, captions, and contributors’ names – adds character, while the layout reflects how some of the writings appear in the paintings.
Year: 2025
Client: Daisy Parris and Sim Smith Gallery, London
Publisher: Sim Smith Gallery, London
Publication, 24.5 × 30 cm, 216 pages
Photography: © The Book Photographer