Before joining Parker Harris, Imogen refined her creative and exhibition practice at Falmouth University, where she managed and curated a range of student and public exhibitions, including Sordya at The Poly and Miniatures at Grays Wharf Arts. These early experiences in leadership, curation, and design established a strong foundation for her collaborative, artist-led approach. Her subsequent work as a freelance Art Handler with a range of companies including Iron Mountain, further deepened her technical understanding of art handling, transport, and installation, grounding her creative insight in practical expertise.
Now as Exhibition and Digital Projects Manager at Parker Harris, Imogen continues to explore the intersection of art, technology, and audience experience—supporting artists and institutions in delivering projects that celebrate the breadth and vitality of contemporary art.
ABOUT
Imogen Donlan is an arts professional whose practice bridges exhibition production, digital project development, and curatorial collaboration. With a foundation in Fine art from Epsom UCA and a BA(hons) Fine Art from Falmouth University (Painting, Print, Sculpture and Mixed Media), her professional work grounded by her creative practice reflects a deep engagement with the relationship between artists, institutions, and audiences.
Her contributions extend across numerous projects developed in collaboration with Parker Harris and Artopps, including open calls, prizes, and public exhibitions that support emerging and established artists across the UK. Through these ventures, Imogen has cultivated an approach that balances technical precision with curatorial sensitivity, ensuring each project’s concept is realised while both executing artist’s and the project’s aims and engaging a variety of audiences and uplifting artists from student to emerging and to established.
Her extensive project experience includes high-profile exhibitions and awards such as the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, ING Discerning Eye, John Ruskin Prize, Sir John Soane’s Museum Artist in Residence, Sidney Nolan Art Prize, Derwent Art Prize, RP Drawing Prize, The Ingram Prize, Wells Art Contemporary, Green & Stone Summer Exhibition and Works on Paper Exhibition, Landscape at Salisbury Museum, The British Art Prize, Guildford House Open, and The Soho Open.
The capricious reporting of the mind, scenes colliding and overlapping, scales, perspective and time forming a personable visual memory language.
Remembrance, reflection, curation is at the centre of my practice. I seek to evoke memory and remembrance by collating new visual tapestries with a selective mix of imagery and a range of repeating constructs. Striking balance between layers of emotionally charged moments and the automated remixing process, filling our gaps in time and memory. Working with process driven, multidisciplinary techniques, crossing drawing, language, painting, print and woodwork, echoing experience through surface, texture and marks. Interweaving recollections form a mise-en-scene exposing the instability of memory recall and image association.
Exhibitions:
Westminster Schools Art Exhibitor 2016 and 2017.
Emanuel, A-level group show, 2016 and 2018.
UCA Epsom Group Show, 2019.
‘Sordya’- Emerge, at The Poly Falmouth. Exhibitor, Curator and Project Manager, 2020.
‘Streetview’- Falmouth. Advisory Committee, 2021.
Miniature’s exhibition, Grays Wharf Penryn. Curatorial assistant, 2021.
"The distant call of childhood, the memory of a place far from now. Imogen uses an eclectic mix of paint, print and mixed media work to explore the landscape from her childhood, reflecting on the memories that have attached themselves to these moments frozen in time."
— Iona Adhar.