Paula Parole: A Promise Is A Spell

Paola Parole joins Victoria Comstock-Kershaw for this episode of the brave Podcast, recorded inside A Promise is a Spell, her first solo exhibition in London. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, Parole discusses how themes of womanhood, childhood, domesticity, and storytelling shape her practice. Drawing on the symbolic language of fairy tales, she reflects on passivity in female narratives, the tension between fantasy and reality, and the emotional power of personal memory. The conversation also explores the materials and motifs in the exhibition, from thorns, birds, and cages to her papier-mâché rocking horse, as well as the pressures of making a first solo show and her work co-founding Filthy Fox Auction Club, which supports recently graduated artists in London.