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artportfolio: Gina Parr

Gina Parr

Gina Parr

Paint, Photography, Craft/Design

London
United Kingdom

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At Bay

At Bay

This painting is from the series Bye bye baby about the loss and opportunity of grown children leaving home. In this series I explore apertures metaphorically as voids resulting from loss and openings to future possibilities for both children and parent.

Original
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
30cm x 30cm

Introduction

Statement

I trained as a Fine Artist and after graduating with a First Class Honours Degree, I went on to Chelsea College of Art to study Set Design for Television. My credits for stage, studio and location for BBC, Chanel 4 and ITV span 27 years and have included Designing Sets for : 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 2003 I returned to my first love Painting, which I feel compelled to produce as an emotional response to all that life deals us, autobiographical and personal but relating to common human experience both good and bad. I grew up in Devon where rolling hills , wild moors and dramatic seascapes played a large and influential part in my childhood. Not surprisingly this landscape is still very important to me, but for the past 30 years I have lived and worked in London, a much loved urban existence and so both places seep into my Painting. I want my work to convey a bold atmosphere and mood which stems from the many years of doing just that in my Set Design work for Television.

In 2011 whilst traveling in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, I Photographed several series of transient forms and marks on walls and surfaces which suggest unique atmospheric worlds, each with their own pictorial resonance or echo. Many are redolent of things half remembered, some resemble fragments of old charts and maps, while others feature overt elements of graphic representation. 

Both my Painting and Photography display a continuing need to explore the fine line between pure abstraction and figurative recognition, between chance and control, discovering and cajoling the work through the different media, employing colour, surface and texture.

Biography



             gina parr

1957                  Born Exeter Devon England
1975 - 1976       Foundation Course  Exeter College of Art
1976 - 1979       1st Class Honours Degree in Fine Art  Lanchester Polytechnic Coventry
1980 - 1981       PGCADE  Middlesex Polytechnic London
1982 - 1983       Design for Television  Chelsea College of Art London


                  Selected Solo Exhibitions and Performance/ Installation Art

2011                  Featured Artist Skylark Gallery 2 London SE1
2009            Coningsby Gallery 30 Tottenham St. London W1T 4RJ
2005            The Tin Drum, Dyke Rd.   Four Walls Galleries Brighton                                        
2005            The Garden Cafe  Four Walls Galleries  Hove
2005            The Tin Drum, James St.  Four Walls Galleries 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

2012                  Devon Open studios, September 2012
2012                  The Other Art Fair, Ambika P3, Marylebone Rd, London, NW1
2011                  The Other Art Fair Bargehouse Southbank London SE1
2011 - 2012       Skylark Gallery 2, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank London SE1
2011-  2012       Painting on set of Holby City BBC Television
2010 - 2011       Gloss Gallery 1 Barnfield Crescent Exeter  EX11QY
2010                  Artswipe Remasters Heneage Street London E1
2010                  BCAF  London SW11 5TN
2009                  Jelmoni Studio Gallery Viale Vittorio Veneto Milan Italy.
2009                  Brick Lane Gallery London E1  Art In Mind
2007 - 2012       Sandra Higgins Fine Art London     
2006                  Mission to Seafarers group exhibition  Mary Penley Fine Artists London
2006                 “Bishopsgate” group exhibition  Mary Penley Fine Artists London
2000            “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 )


                   Television Production Design  see www.ginaparr.com for full CV
                          The Royal Variety Performance, The Brit Awards, Shooting Stars, Goodness Gracious Me, Children in Need, Eastenders etc etc......

1996 - 2010       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

                          Design

2005            Visualisation and Design with 17-7 Marketing Experts for 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