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Gina Parr is a widely collected
Artist who works predominantly in the medium of painting,
but also photographs when traveling, her way of painting
whilst on the move.
Originally trained as a Fine Artist, graduating with
a First Class BA Honours Degree, she went on to Chelsea
College of Art to study Set Design, leading to a 25
year career Production Designing a multitude of sets
and stages for the likes of David Bowie, Kylie, Robbie
Williams, “Shooting Stars” with Vic and
Bob and the original Albert Square for “Eastenders”.
She has Art directed for Richard Eyres on "Insurance
Man", the Alan Bennett Drama for BBC, has had work
featured on set of David Hares Drama for BBC “Worricker”,
and recently has her paintings and photography on set
of “Breeders” starring Martin Freeman and
Alun Armstrong for Sky 1. She returned to work as an
Artist in 2007, bringing her creative experience as
a designer to her Art practice.
Gina Parr’s work has both nature and self at its
heart, it’s about expressing who she is, where
she has come from, and the notion that we are formed
by our personal journeys, our experiences and our relationships.
Her themes: family, childhood, loss, love and gender
are played out in a chimerical space, which lies somewhere
between abstraction and figuration, but is equally about
painting, about the basic tools of being a painter;
colour, surface, mark, and form and the creative journey
itself. When painting, she is completely immersed in
the process, building a reverberating relationship with
the canvas, a push and pull of spontaneity and controlled
intention. She uses palette knife, cloth, brush, sponge
and fingers, to add, remove, scratch, blur and work
the paint, recently drawing into the paint with charcoal,
all aiming to invoke an atmosphere drawn from the process,
the initial emotional trigger and the colour palette
employed.
She has also lectured in art and design in various colleges
including Chelsea College of Art and Nottingham University,
has exhibited in galleries and art fairs in the UK,
Denmark and Italy, exhibits with the Society of Women
Artists annual at the Mall Galleries London, and has
completed commissions in The Middle East, Belguim and
London.
Her works are held in collections worldwide including
Keble College Oxford, Director of Jestico + Whiles Architects
London, President of the Boston's Children's Museum
USA, and Goldman Sachs Senior Economist, London.
She now lives and works between Devon and London’s
East End.
1957
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Born Exeter Devon England |
1975 - 1976 |
Foundation Course - Exeter College of Art |
1976 - 1979 |
1st Class BA Honours
Degree in Fine Art - Lanchester Polytechnic Coventry |
1982 - 1983 |
PGCADE - Middlesex
Poly London |
1982 - 1983 |
Design for Television - Chelsea College of Art London
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Solo Exhibitions /
Commissions / Performance Art
2019 |
Two
Artist show "Deceived with Ornament" - Renata Maiblum
Gallery Copenhagen |
2019 |
Solo
Show "Night Fishing" David Lolly Gallery
Cambridge |
2018 |
Solo
Show "Casting Off" Brook Contemporary
Budleigh Salterton Devon |
2018 |
Commission
Belmond Cadogan Hotel London - Artefact Hotel Consultants |
2018 |
Commission
Belgium - Artefact Hotel Consultants |
2017 |
Commission
for 2 large works for the Middle East - Artefact
Hotel Consultants |
2014 |
Solo
Show Candida Stevens Gallery Chichester |
2013 |
Four
paintings purchased by Keble College Oxford permanent
collection |
2012
- 2014 |
Devon
Open Studios |
2009 |
Coningsby
Gallery London |
2007 |
Four
Walls Gallery Brighton |
1981 |
Performance "Eat me drink me" Spacex Gallery Exeter - Arts Council England grant funded |
1981 |
Performance "Chocolate" Heaven London |
1980 |
Performance "Walking with Ducks" Middlesex Polytechnic London |
1980 |
Performance "The Line" The Drill Hall London |
1980 |
Performance "Not enough room to swing a cat in here" Waterloo Gallery London - Arts Council England grant funded |
1980
- 1983 |
Various
large scale murals London |
Selected Group Exhibitions
/ TV
2020 |
"Art for the Earth” Fund raising Exhibition for Weald Action Group ( online ) |
2020 |
Gallery Artists group show The Archive Fine Art 14 The Guild Salisbury |
2020 |
Chaiya Art Awards Exhibition (online) |
2020 |
SWA 159th Annual Exhibition (online)
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2020 |
Paintings and Photography on set of drama series Breeders on Sky 1 starring Martin Freeman, Daisy Haggard and Alun Armstrong |
2020 |
Group
show The Irving Gallery, Oxford |
2019 |
Group show Renata Maiblum Gallery Copenhagen, December |
2019 |
Selected
to exhibit at SWA Annual Exhibition Mall Galleries
London SW1 |
2019 |
Brook
Gallery Fresh Art Fair Ascot Racecourse 2019 |
2019 |
Virginia
Damtsa Gallery Group show |
2019 |
David
Lolly Gallery - AAF Battersea London |
2018 |
Boecho
Gallery London - Christmas show |
2018 |
100%
Design Fair - Brook Gallery with Art Haus at Olympia
Grand London |
2018 |
Summer
show The Stratford Gallery |
2018 |
Online
Exhibition at Artsy with David Lolly Gallery |
2018 |
Fresh
Art Fair Cheltenham with Brook Contemporary |
2018 |
“The
Blues” Boecho Gallery London |
2018 |
Shortlisted
for The Chaiya Art Awards OXO Gallery London |
2018 |
Paintings
on set of new BBC Production staring Martin Freeman
in 2020 |
2017 |
Christmas
show Candida Stevens Gallery |
2017 |
Christmas / Jan 18 show The Stratford Gallery Stratford
Upon Avon |
2017 |
Candida Stevens Gallery, The Affordable Art Fair
Battersea London |
2017 |
Brook
Contemporary Budleigh Salterton, Fresh Art Fair
Cheltenham |
2017 |
"The
Land" Candida Stevens Gallery Chichester |
2017 |
"Beyond
the real" The Stratford Gallery Stratford Upon Avon |
2016 |
Artdog
Gallery Edinburgh Art Fair, Hampstead AAF, Manchester
Buy Art Fair |
2015 |
"Kind of Blue"
Candida Stevens Fine Art Chichester |
2015 |
"Driven to Abstraction"
Atom Gallery London |
2014 |
Thomas and Paul
Gallery Collection and Mixed Media Summer show Little
Venice London |
2014 |
Paintings and
Photographs on set - David Hares BBC 2 Drama Woricker
- Salting the Battlefield |
2013 |
"An abstract view"
Thomas and Paul Gallery Little Venice London |
2013 - 2015 |
AAF Battersea
London Skylark Artist Collective |
2011 - 2013 |
The Other Art
Fair, Ambika P3, The Truman Brewery, The Bargehouse
London |
2013 |
Paintings on set,
Ben Elton series The Wright Way BBC1 |
2011 - 2013 |
Painting on set,
Holby City BBC1 |
2010 |
Artswipe Gallery
Remasters, London |
2007 - 2014 |
Sandra Higgins
Fine Art London |
Television Production
Design
The
Royal Variety Performance, The Brit Awards, Shooting
Stars, Goodness Gracious Me, Children in Need, Original
design of Eastenders Albert Square, World Cup, etc. |
1996
- 2007 |
Freelance Production
Designer for Television BBC, Channel 4, ITV |
1996 |
Royal Television
Society Design Award Nomination |
1984 - 1996 |
Television Production
Designer / Senior Designer BBC Design Department
London |
1983 |
Television Design
Yorkshire Television Leeds |
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Design
2005 |
Visualisation and Design, 17-7, The Lost Gardens of Heligan Cornwall |
Teaching / Lecturing
2009
- 2010 |
Artist
in Residence |
Ravenscourt School
and Technology College, London |
2003 |
Television Design
Consultant |
Turkish Radio
and Television, Istanbul Turkey |
1991 - 1996 |
Design for Television |
BBC Television
London |
1990 - 1991 |
Design for Television |
Chelsea College
of Art |
1988 |
Design for Television |
Nottingham University |
1986 |
Design for Television |
London College
of Fashion |
1980 - 1983 |
Art and Design |
Southgate College
London |
Publications
Where is God in our 21st Century World
The Independent Review
Homes and Gardens
Tallulah Art and Design Journal
The Londonist
Discover Art |
Notable Public and
Private Collections
Keble
College Oxford (Permanent Art Collection)
Senior Economist Goldman Sachs London
President Boston Children’s Museum USA (Private
Collection)
Director Jestico + Whiles Architects London (Private
Collection)
The Belmond Cadogan Hotel Sloane Street London (Collection
of female Artists)
William Gaminara (Actor - Leo - Silent Witness BBC)
and Kate Locke London (Private Collection)
Kate Buffery (Actress and voice of Digital Switchover)
London (Private Collection )
Vedanta Resources Ltd Berkley Square London
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