Gina Parr

Gina Parr is a painter and photographer who 'paints' with her camera when traveling.

Nature, memory and identity serve as the cornerstone of her work, her childhood spent diversely in wide-open spaces with her father fishing for mackerel and at home with her mother's extreme hoarding and mental health issues inherently informs her practice. Consequently the work is often imbued with the atmosphere and narrative of both these experiences whilst exploring the space between abstraction and figuration: A guttural and painterly response to “being.”
Lyrics from songs, things said, current affairs, sexual politics, passages from literature, presence and absence all play their part, whilst she ultimately longs to find an emotive and visual balance within the work which she hopes, will in turn, speak to the viewer’s inner self.

Originally receiving a First Class BA Honours Degree in Fine Art, she went on to Chelsea College of Art to study set design, leading to a 25 year career Production Designing many notable shows for BBC Television, returning to her full time Art practice in 2007.
She has lectured at Chelsea College of Art and Nottingham University and has widely exhibited in galleries and art fairs in the UK and Europe.

Parr has wor...

b: 1957 Exeter Devon UK
1975 - 1976 Foundation Course Exeter Art College.
1976 - 1979 First Class BA Honours Degree in Fine Art Lanchester Polytechnic Coventry
1980 - 1981 PGCADE Middlesex Polytechnic London
1982 - 1983 Design for Television Chelsea College of Art London.
2021 Associate Member of The Society of Women Artists London UK

Awards
2020 Shortlisted and Exhibited The Chaiya Art Awards (online)
2018 Shortlisted and Exhibited The Chaiya Art Awards OXO Gallery London
2017 Aesthetica Art Prize Longlisted
2014 Aesthetica Art Prize Longlisted
1996 Royal Television Society Design Award 1 of 3 Shortlisted London
1981 Awarded Arts Council England Grant Exeter
1980 Awarded Arts Council England Grant London

Solo Exhibitions / Commissions / Performance Art

2025 - Launch of commissioned "Air" artwork featured on front of Glen Scotia 50 Year Old Whisky release
2024 - Collaboration / Painting Commission with Glen Scotia, Loch Lomond Group
2023 - Painting “Waiting for everything and nothing” selected to feature on Album CD cover
2019 - “ Deceived with Ornament " Renata Maiblum Gallery Copenhagen
2019 - “ Night Fishing “ David Lolly Gallery Cambridge
2018 - “ Casting off “ Brook Contemporary Devon
2018 - Commission Belmond Cadogan Hotel for The Royal Suite, London
2018 - Commission Belgium - Artefact Hotel Consultants
2017 - Commission for 2 large works for the Middle East
2014 - Candida Stevens Gallery Chichester
2013 - Four paintings purchased by Keble College Oxford Permanent Collection
1981 - Performance “Eat me drink me” Spacex Gallery Exeter – Awarded Arts Council England Grant
1980 - Performance “Not enough room to swing a cat in here” Waterloo Gallery London – Awarded Arts Council England Grant

Selected Group Exhibitions / TV features

2025 - Group Show Milsom Gallery Bath - Sandra Higgins Art
2025 - RWA group show of Artist Network members
2025 - The Empire, Bath, Sandra Higgins Art
2024 - Immersed and Imbued, One Paved...