About 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 in wide-open spaces with my father fishing for mackerel and at home with my mother's hoarding and mental health issues inherently informs my practice. Consequently the work is often imbued with the atmosphere and narrative of both these experiences whilst exploring the liminal space between abstraction and figuration: a guttural and painterly response to both the darkness and luminosity of being. Lyrics from songs, things said, current affairs, sexual politics, passages from literature, presence and absence all play their part, whilst I ultimately long to find an emotive and visual balance within the work which I hope, will in turn, speak to the viewer’s inner self.”

When not in her painting studio and whilst traveling, the Artist “paints with her camera”, seeking to find painterly illusions of scape, form and fictional places 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.

To date, she has produced series of photographs from: Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka, Cuba, France, Spain and Morocco. These Limited Edition photographs are often mistaken for her paintings.