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Gina Parr
About
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.
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- Location
- Exmouth, Devon, United Kingdom
- Website
- http://www.ginaparr.com
Television Production Design see www.ginaparr.com for full CV1983 Television Design Yorkshire Television Leeds1984 - 1996 Television Production Designer / Senior Designer BBC Design Department London1996 Royal Television Society Design Award1996 - 2010 Freelance Production Designer for Television BBC, Channel 4, ITV Design2005 Visualisation and Design The Lost Gardens of Heligan Cornwall Teaching / Lecturing1980 - 1983 Art and Design Southgate College London1986 Design for Television London College of Fashion 1988 Design for Television Nottingham University1990 - 1991 Design for Television Chelsea College of Art 1991 - 1996 Design for Television BBC Television London2003 Television Design Consultant Turkish Radio and Television Istanbul Turkey2009- 2010 Artist in Residence Ravenscourt School and Technology College London , … Read More
1957 Born Exeter Devon1975 - 1976 Foundation Course Exeter College of Art1976 - 1979 1st Class Honours Degree in Fine Art Lanchester Polytechnic Coventry1980 - 1981 PGCADE Middlesex Polytechnic London1982 - 1983 Design for Television Chelsea College of Art London Solo Exhibitions and Performance Art2009 Coningsby Gallery 30 Tottenham St. London W1T 4RJ2005 The Tin Drum, Dyke Rd. Four Walls Galleries Brighton 2005 The Garden Cafe Four Walls Galleries Hove2005 The Tin Drum, James St. Four Walls Galleries Brighton 1981 Performance Eat me drink me Spacex Gallery Exeter1981 Performance Chocolate Heaven London1980 Performance Walking with Ducks Middlesex Poly London1980 Performance The Line The Drill Hall London Group Exhibitions and Performance Art / Public Art2010 BCAF Battersea London 2009 Jelmoni Studio Gallery Milan Italy. Oct 22nd - Nov 5th 092009 Brick Lane Gallery London E1 Art in Mind Sept 1st - 14th 092007 - 2009 Sandra Higgins Fine Art London and Art for Living 2006 Mission to Seafarers group exhibition Mary Penley Fine Artists London2006 Bishopsgate group exhibition Mary Penley Fine Artists London2000 BBC Vision BBC Television Centre London1981 - 1983 Various large scale Murals Southgate, Tottenham, Streatham, Hornsey London1981 Performing Arts Company Royal College of Art London1981 Waterloo Sunset Not Enough Room... Waterloo Gallery London … Read More
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Events & Exhibitions
Events
2012 Selected Artist for The Other Art Fair, Ambika P3,Marylebone Rd, London, NW1 10th May - 13th May 2012 www.theotherartfair.com/projects/gina-parr-2/
2012 September 2012 Devon Open Studios.( Artists studio Exmouth, Devon)
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2012 Collective Artist at Skylark Gallery 2 Oxo Tower Wharf,London.
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Exhibitions
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
2011+ 2012 (Oct)Featured Artist Skylark Gallery 2 London SE1
2010 - 2011 Gloss Gallery 1 Barnfield Crescent Exeter EX11QY
2010 Artswipe Remasters Heneage Street London E1
2010 BCAF London SW11 5TN
2009 Coningsby Gallery 30 Tottenham St. London W1T 4RJ
2009 Jelmoni Studio Gallery Viale Vittorio Veneto Milan Italy.
2009 Brick Lane Gallery London E1 Art In Mind
2007 - 2011 Sandra Higgins Fine Art London and Art for Living London … Read More
