Artworks by Gina Parr

Gina Parr 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 symbiosis between them.

In both my painting and photography I’m seeking to find a topography that is wholly mine, formed out of past chaos, present state of mind and future expectations."