Bob Parks‘ artistic process goes back to the 1960s, when he developed a self abandonment from John Cage‘s work in indeterminacy, where aspects of a musical work are left open to chance, or to the interpreter’s free choice.
The persona Bob developed based on these first experiences, and later augmentations, he has come to identify as Bignose.

Bob’s walking practice started in the early 1970s. Wearing a tunic made from a painting with many colours and carrying a 14′ No Parking Sign on his head, he walked around Leicester for 2 weeks, a piece and experience evolving from his self-abandonment.
He later followed this up, walking around Los Angeles, getting thrown out of art museums, and being screamed at in MacDonald’s, living out an interpretation of his own self-portrait.

From the 1980s onwards, Bob’s persona evolved from something external into something internal, eventually manifesting itself as 1000 psychotic murderous rages, a kind of psychotic walking art.

Now, fusing his past experiences, he starts his day with early morning 5-mile jogs, to inform his studio practice in the afternoon which he calls The Return of Bignose.