About me

Gina Parr is a painter and photographer who 'paints' with her camera when traveling.

Nature, memory and identity serve as the cornerstone of her work, her childhood spent diversely in wide-open spaces with her father fishing for mackerel and at home with her mother's extreme hoarding and mental health issues inherently informs her practice. Consequently the work is often imbued with the atmosphere and narrative of both these experiences whilst exploring the space between abstraction and figuration: A guttural and painterly response to "being."
Lyrics from songs, things said, current affairs, sexual politics, passages from literature, presence and absence all play their part, whilst she ultimately longs to find an emotive and visual balance within the work which she hopes, will in turn, speak to the viewer's inner self.

Originally receiving a First Class BA Honours Degree in Fine Art, she went on to Chelsea College of Art to study set design, leading to a 25 year career Production Designing many notable shows for BBC, ITV and Chanel 4 Television, returning to her full time Art practice in 2007.

Since then, she has widely exhibited in galleries and art fairs in the UK and Europe. She has works in Worldwide collections including Keble College Oxford and has completed commissions in UAE, Belgium, London and USA. Parr has also lectured at Chelsea College of Art and Nottingham University.

She was selected for the RA Summer Show 2024 and the Royal Western Academy Open 2023.
She has recently collaborated with Glen Scotia Whisky of Loch Lomond Group Glasgow to paint a painting for the cabinet front of their 100 Limited Edition of their 50 year old whisky release in May 2025.