Gina Parr

Gina Parr b: 1957 is a British Painter and Photographer.

"Nature, memory and identity serve as the cornerstone of my work. My childhood spent diversely sea fishing for mackerel with my father and at home with my mother's hoarding and mental health issues inherently informs my practice. Consequently the work is imbued with the atmosphere and narrative of both these experiences, whilst exploring the liminal space between abstraction and figuration, absence and presence.

My paintings are formed through layers of oil, charcoal, pastel and acrylic, scratching, drawing, removing and adding into the surface, until reconciled. When not in my painting studio and whilst traveling, I 'paint with my camera’, instead, seeking to find my paintings within the marks, stains, colours and textures of distressed and weathered walls and other surfaces, some of which have intentionally or accidentally been laid down by others. My intent is to photographically frame these images and subsequently print them exactly as found. To date, I have produced series of photographs from: Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka, Cuba, France, Spain, Morocco and most recently Italy. My photographs are often mistaken for my paintings and I've found a continuing sy...

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 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

2026 - The Viewing Room Sandra Higgins Gallery Bath
2025 - Courting Colour - Sandra Higgins Gallery Bath
2025 - RWA Secret postcard Auction Exhibition
2025 - Sandra Higgins Gallery Bath
2025 - RWA gr...