Mark is the Major Lead for the Bachelor of Creative Arts Fine Art major in the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University. Mark completed his BA (Social Science) at Edith Cowan University, Perth in 1994, BA (Art) (Honours) in 2006, and MA (Visual Art) in 2007 at Curtin University of Technology, Perth and PhD (Creative Practice) at RMIT Melbourne. 
 
Mark Parfitt’s creative practice connects to themes of site-specificity, installation, and socially engaged practice. Drawing on contemporary sculpture theory informed by the practical conditions of artistic production, Mark uses the house as a site to produce and exhibit new sculptural artworks. To date Mark has produced a range of house-based events that utilises domestic architecture and shifts the audience from passive spectators to co-producers of artworks. Their participation and active involvement represent the disruptive and playful way a community can change their immediate environment when operating in everyday life. Recent work tests the house as a site for hosting art events while exploring the display and transmission of participatory artworks as means of providing an alternative space to the conventional art gallery. 
 
For more than two decades, he has exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions, featured in several institutional and private collections and has attracted the funding of numerous grants, residencies and prizes. Mark is the Chair for WA Arts organisation Sculpture West, University Representative for Years 11/12 Visual Arts Curriculum Advisory Committee (CAC) Department of Education WA Government and, Consultant for the Town of Victoria Park Public Art Advisory Group.