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Gina Parr was born
in Devon where rolling hills and dramatic seascapes
played a major part in her childhood. For the past 30
years she has lived and worked in London and so consequently
both places influence her work as an Artist.
Originally trained as a Fine Artist she graduated with
a First Class Honours Degree and went on to Chelsea
College of Art to study Set Design for Television. Her
credits for stage, studio and location for the BBC,
Channel 4 and ITV span 27 years and have included set
designs for Dame Shirley Bassey, Lesley Garrett, Vic
and Bob, Kylie, Bob Monkhouse, Robbie Williams, David
Bowie, Cher, Amy Winehouse and Julie Walters on shows
as diverse as The Brit Awards, The Royal Variety Performance, Shooting Stars, Goodness
Gracious Me, the original design of Eastenders and The
World Cup in 2006.
In 2003 she returned to painting and in 2010/11 whilst
travelling in France, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, started
photographing marks on walls and surfaces as
her way of “painting” with her camera whilst
on the move. Both her painting and photography uncover our complex
potential connections and disconnections with form and
landscape, the fine line between pure
abstraction and figurative recognition, between chance
and control, each piece suggests a unique atmospheric
world with it’s own pictorial resonance or echoes
which in turn provoke our capacity to imagine a space
beyond our known territories.
Her work has been described as muscular, strong, vibrant and bold and is in private collections in the United States, Norway,
Germany and Eire and here in the UK both in London and in the South West. She has exhibited in shows in London, Milan,
Brighton and Exeter.
She has also lectured and mentored in both Art and Design
and Design for Television at Chelsea College of Art,
the BBC and Nottingham University.
Qualifications
1st
Class Honours Degree in Fine Art
PGCADE
Design for Television |
Lanchester Poly
Coventry
Middlesex Poly London
Chelsea College of Art London |
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Performance / Installation Art
| 2012 - 2013 |
Devon
Open Studios |
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| 2011 - 2013 |
Featured
Artist Skylark Gallery 2 |
London SE1 |
| 2009 |
Solo
Exhibition |
The Coningsby
Gallery London W1 |
| 2005 |
The Tin Drum,
Dyke Rd |
Brighton |
| 2005 |
The Garden Cafe,
Four Walls Galleries
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Hove |
| 2005 |
The Tin Drum,
James St |
Brighton |
| 1981 |
Performance “Eat
me drink me” |
Spacex Gallery
Exeter (Arts Council Grant) |
| 1981 |
Performance “
Chocolate” |
“Heaven”
London |
| 1980 |
Performance “Walking
with Ducks” |
Middlesex Poly
London |
| 1980 |
Performance “
The Line” |
The Drill Hall
London |
Selected Group Exhibitions
and Performance Art / Public Art
| 2013 |
Paintings on the set of a new Ben Elton series The Wright Way BBC1 |
| 2011 - 2012 |
The
Other Art Fair, Ambika P3, Marylebone Rd, London,
NW1 and The Bargehouse SE1 |
| 2011 - 2013 |
Skylark
Gallery 2, Oxo Tower Wharf, London SE1 9PH |
| 2011 - 2013 |
Painting on the set of Holby City BBC Television |
| 2010 - 2011 |
Gloss Gallery |
1 Barnfield Crescent Exeter EX1 1QY |
| 2010 |
Artswipe Remasters
- Dec 2nd - 5th |
The Rag Factory
London E1 |
| 2010 |
BCAF 2010 May
14th - 16th |
Battersea Arts
Centre |
| 2009 |
Oct
22nd - Nov 5th |
Jelmoni Studio
Gallery Milan Italy |
| 2009 |
Art in Mind -
Sept 1st - 14th |
Brick Lane Gallery
London E1 |
| 2007 - 2013 |
Sandra Higgins
Fine Art London |
Art for Living |
| 2006 |
Mission to Seafarers
London |
Mary Penley Fine
Artists Bishopsgate London |
| 2006 |
“Bishopsgate”
group exhibition |
Mary Penley Fine
Artists Bishopsgate London |
| 2000 |
Exhibition “BBC Vision” |
BBC Television
Centre London |
| 1981 - 1983 |
Various large
scale Murals |
Southgate, Tottenham,
Streatham, Hornsey London |
| 1981 |
Performing Arts
Company |
Royal College
of Art London |
| 1981 |
Waterloo Sunset
“ Not Enough Room...” |
Waterloo Gallery
London (Arts Council Grant) |
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 |
Television Production
Design
| 1996
- 2010 |
Freelance Production
Designer for Television BBC , Channel 4, ITV |
| 1996 |
Royal Television
Society Design Award |
| 1984 - 1996 |
Television Production
Designer / Senior Designer BBC Design Department
London |
| 1983 |
Television Design
Yorkshire Television, Leeds |
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at www.ginaparr.com |
Design
| 2005 |
Visualisation and Design with 17-7 Marketing Experts for The Lost Gardens of Heligan Cornwall |
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