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Gina Parr Coast Exmouth 2012 Photograph Printed on Hahnemuehle 310gsm German Etching Paper with Archival Inks Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Scape, memory and identity are ever present in my work. My childhood, spent diversely in wide-open spaces with my father fishing for mackerel and at home with my mother's hoarding and mental health issues, defined my relationship to the sea and land: The uncertainty of the deep, the spirit and memory of the open space, evoking freedom and connectedness. I do not wish to recreate those experienced places, but to unearth the truth, to centralise the feelings and emotions that were and are present and to not be afraid of the material of my past. My work is an expression of the intermingling of both joy and pain: the human condition. Education Originally trained as a Fine Artist at Coventry University, graduating with a First Class BA Honours Degree, she went on to Chelsea College of Art to study set design, leading to a 25-year career in Production Design, working on many prestigious shows for television. She returned to her Artist's practice in 2007. Select Exhibitions/Awards Solo Exhibitions / Commissions 2021 Commission of 4 large works at Neon Gallery London for Squire & Partners London 2019 "Deceived with Ornament" Renata Maiblum Gallery Copenhagen 2019 Solo show "Night Fishing" David Lolly Gallery Cambridge 2018 Solo show "Casting off" Brook Contemporary Budleigh Salterton Devon 2018 Commission Belmond Cadogan Hotel London - Artefact Hotel Consultants 2018 Commission Belgium - Artefact Hotel Consultants 2017 Commission for 2 large works for the Middle East - Artefact Hotel Consultants 2014 Solo show Candida Stevens Gallery Chichester 2013 Four paintings purchased by Keble College Oxford Permanent Collection Awards 2021 Associate member of Society of Women Artists 2020 Shortlisted and Exhibition The Chaiya Art Awards (online) 2017 Aesthetica Art Prize Longlisted 2014 Aesthetica Art Prize Longlisted 1981 Awarded Arts Council England Grant 1980 Awarded Arts Council England Grant Gallery Representation Irving Contemporary Oxford, The Stratford Gallery Broadway, The Archive Gallery Salisbury, Rise Art London. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork When she is traveling and away from her painting studio, Parr uses a camera as her way of 'painting' whilst on the move, often mistaken as reproductions of her paintings, her photographs are Original Limited-Edition pieces. Renata Maiblum Art Consultancy Copenhagen says of Parr's work: Parr´s approach is a microcosm of surface, fragments of diversity founded on variety of exteriors; some human made, others adopting form by natural causes. Their very strong presence lends them the appearance of enlarged particles, those vibrant atoms of the country. The images exist by themselves, without need for definitions or description and, with their tactile and lively texture, seem as paintings. These 4 Photographs which were taken, paradoxically, in the overpopulated and chaotic streets in Southern India become chimerical worlds and fictional places.