Cosmic Bird Barbara Parise

Cosmic Bird

This is the artwork gallery of Barbara Parise (outsider artist active since 1980) also known as Lady U. Plush (1999 - 2011) Runelda De MoonSun (art name) and Cosmic Bird (2011— ).
She is an Italo-British multi-disciplinary
Visual/ aural creator, cosmic entrepreneur.

Avant-garde composer, voice, screenwriter/writer/poet, film-maker director/ photographer, film/theatre director, muse, actress, dancer, performer, producer, editor, expert researcher, sound designer and art/ film curator, seasoned traveller. Currently Lecturer/ educator in various institutions, editor and artist. Previously Content provider, event manager, art gallery & vintage shop owner, film critic/curator, historian/consultant.

In the past (amongst other ventures) I contributed to :

Rorscharch company (screenwriting and writing projects, post-automatic writing); loose art collective Ambassadors Of Plush, Plush Productions Ltd; Plush Shop and Art gallery;

Event creator, director / film-maker, organiser, manager & performer of Surrealists/ decadent live events/ happenings with Alt Media at the Masonic Lodge, St Leonards-On-Sea;

As artist with HAF, Coastal Currents Art Festival, Hastings; Rye Arts Festival, Venice Itsliquid festi...

Trained at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Media Department, (Master of Arts: FEATURE FILM) with a previous BA degree from the DAMS, University La Sapienza, Rome, parallel to practical film school Lab Cinema, with additional screenwriting training at historical Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome, with late master guru Luigi Di Gianni - and subsequently professionally trained in several mixed media artistic disciplines; i.e. theatre acting, new media / multimedia, multidisciplinary art practice in UK (Goldsmiths, Westminster College, Westminster University, Kingsway, Kings College , LUX Center among others), previously training in Ireland, Paris, France, Italy and UK.

Bilingual Italian-English
French: A level
Spanish: A level

Exhibits or published released work/ film/shows/performance to date :

Theatre Director Dancer/singer/performer for Children theatre shows Rome, 1984-1988

Poetry in the park, London 1986-87

Poetry nights/visual poetry: Testaccio, Pietralata, Monteverde, Trastevere, Rome 1992/94.

Video art and visual poems, analogue and VHS 1990-1994

1998 published poems on Poems Of Light And Darkness (An anthology) - The Beehive Press, UK

1999 published poems on Water - An Anthology - The Beehive Press, UK

The Crypt, Brixton; Brixton street shows South London and ROSCHARC proj, 1998-2000

Group show at The Old School/ Hastings 2007

2007-09
Group shows Hastings Arts Forum

Solo show screening/photos exhibition of 'The Air Catchers' own film, HAF, UK

Maisons Des Phantasmes, France

Masonic Hall, St Leonards On Sea/ Hastings shows and performance live events+art installations:
The Edict, The Challenge, Tea in the Garden, The Isms(filmed 2007-2009.)

Solo show/ screenings 'The Edict' and 'Grayson Perry's' doc at Electric Palace cinema, Hastings, UK

Screening as producer/director with Plush Productions of 'Grayson Perry documentary' on his touring exhibition at the DWLP, Bexhill, in collaboration with the Arts Council Of England. Electric...