Stemming from Gina's early work as a Performance Artist, her interest has been and continues to be in space, atmosphere, time and memory. Parr's childhood environment, where she had neither control nor space as Gina's mother was an undiagnosed hoarder, deeply informed her Performance Art, Set Design TV career and subsequently her Painting and Photographic work; space and atmosphere are no longer just desirable commodities, she now feels it is necessary to create and recreate them, bouncing between clutter and clear. Parr's early performance work, “Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat in Here” at the Waterloo Gallery in 1980 explored the connection between possessions, confinement and absence of space. Subsequently, the series of photographs, “Horizon” has expanded this theme to create illusionary space from a cramped and chaotic environment in urban India and the Far East, and the Painting series, "River meets sea,” has been an exploration of the open space where two large bodies of fluid merge and has lead to the series “Spatial history”.
Considering the fine balance between chance and control has understandably also become increasingly important in Gina's work and this marks the tension between how much it is allowed to happen by chance, and the need to intervene and engineer the paint to control the developing relationship formed on the canvas. Whilst Gina's work is fundamentally abstract, the foundations are born out of figurative reference and autobiographical themes and draw on personal emotional passage and scenario.
In 2007 Gina returned to work full time as an Artist having originally graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art in 1980 and having practiced as a Performance Artist in London in the early 1980’s, going on to study Television Set Design at Chelsea College of Art and worked for the BBC as a Senior Production Designer, and later as a Freelance Production Designer across a number of channels.
Gina Parr's work is in private collections in the United States, Canada, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Eire, New Zealand and the UK.
Considering the fine balance between chance and control has understandably also become increasingly important in Gina's work and this marks the tension between how much it is allowed to happen by chance, and the need to intervene and engineer the paint to control the developing relationship formed on the canvas. Whilst Gina's work is fundamentally abstract, the foundations are born out of figurative reference and autobiographical themes and draw on personal emotional passage and scenario.
In 2007 Gina returned to work full time as an Artist having originally graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art in 1980 and having practiced as a Performance Artist in London in the early 1980’s, going on to study Television Set Design at Chelsea College of Art and worked for the BBC as a Senior Production Designer, and later as a Freelance Production Designer across a number of channels.
Gina Parr's work is in private collections in the United States, Canada, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Eire, New Zealand and the UK.
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