Gina Parr is a painter and photographer who paints with her camera when traveling.
Nature, memory and identity serve as the cornerstone of Parr’s work. Her childhood spent diversely in Devon’s wide-open spaces with her father, fishing for mackerel, and at home living 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, utilising a guttural and painterly response to these childhood memories, whilst she explores the space between abstraction and figuration.
Lyrics from songs, things said, current affairs, sexual politics, passages from literature, climate change, presence and absence all play their part, whilst she ultimately, and not surprisingly, longs to find an emotional, spatial and visual balance of order within her work.
 

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 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. Parr has works in worldwide collections including: Keble College Oxford, The Belmond Cadogan Hotel London, Argentex Foreign
Exchange Headquarters London, and has completed commissions in UAE, Belgium, London, USA, and for Glen Scotia Whisky, part of the Loch Lomond Group Scotland, for a their 50 year old whisky release in
2025.
 

Parr has also lectured at Chelsea College of Art and Nottingham University.
She was selected for the RA Summer Show 2024 and has shown at the Royal Western Academy in 2023 and 2025.