Joy Parker
Curriculum Vitae
I am a visual artist
specialising in figurative painting, though I also use other art forms such as
mosaic, sculpture and performance. I take individual commissions and make work
for exhibition. I also lead art workshops for children and adults, emphasising
the value of art-making as much as the final art product.
Exhibitions
Forthcoming Exhibitions
Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln, 2012
A Ferrari Through India, Penicuik Community Arts Centre, 2010
A Ferrari Through India, Robson Gallery, Selkirk:
September, 2009
Wise
and Otherwise, Gallery 8, Pershore
Arts Centre, 2009
Wise and Otherwise, Old Gala House, Galashiels, 2008
The Ford Factory Series,
Ettrick Riverside, Scottish Enterprise, Selkirk:,2007
The Ford Factory Series, The
Forest Bookshop, Selkirk: 2007
Untitled, Jaggy Thistle, Selkirk:
2005
Planted in the Air, Tolbooth Arts Centre, Kirkcudbright: 2004
Undertones of India 2, Woodbridge Gallery,
Birmingham: 2002
Undertones of India, Robson Gallery, Selkirk:
2001
The One & The Many, Stonebow Farm House, Peopleton, Worcestershire: 2001
New Paintings &
Sculptures,
Penicuik Community Arts Centre: 1997
Selected Group Exhibitions
Sunflower Restaurant, Peebles, 2011, 2010
Smoke House Gallery, Eyemouth,
2010
Spring Art Exhibition, Hawick Museum, 2010
A Ferrari Through India, with invited artists, Woodbridge Gallery, Birmingham: December 2009
Flat Cat Gallery, Lauder: 2003 and 2008
Over and Out, Cumbria Institute of the
Arts: 2007
Corte Real Gallery, Portugal: 2007
Gallery on the Green, Denholm:
2007
Wasps Opendoors, Selkirk Studios: 2003, 2004, 2005 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010
Wasps Artists,
Old Gala House, Galashiels: 2006
Art in the Mall, Ocean Terminal,
Edinburgh: 2005
Art on the Links Gallery,
St Andrews: 2005
Art @ City Park, City Park,
Glasgow: 2004
Stoneworks, Coldstream
Museum: 2004
Wasps Artists, Tweeddale Museum, Peebles:
2004
Performance
Facing
Back, In
collaboration with Robert Leach, University of Cumbria: 2006
Residencies
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India: 2009
Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi,
Kerala, India: 2008
Events
Building a Shoe Cairn, 2002. I facilitated the building of a cairn of
shoes to launch the sculpture project Waymerks, which placed 13 kists, made by
different local sculptors, along the Southern Upland Way. The Kists contain
waymerks which can be collected by walkers.
www.waymerks.org.uk
Public Commissions
Rod Griffiths, Portrait. Faculty
of Public Health . Royal College of Physicians, UK, 2007
Kist, Southern Upland Way. Part of the project Waymerks, 2003
Gipsy
Palace Mosaic Sign, Yetholm,2001
Workshops
Paint a Portrait in the Style of Frans Hals, Wasps Studios 2010, Selkirk Art Club, 2011
Discover India Through Words
and Images, Eyemouth High School, 2010
Willow Sculpture with Liz
Douglas, Galashiels Academy
2010, 2001
Make a Mosaic:
Wasps Opendoors 2009, 2004; Melrose Grammar, 2006; Tweeddale
Museum, 2005 & 2004; Coldstream Museum, 2004; Hawick Museum, 2004 & 2003;
Hawick High School, 2004, Galashiels Academy,
2003
The Big Draw, Selkirk Studios,
2007
Caught in the Act: (wire
& plaster bandage): Old Gala House, 2006; Hawick High School,
2006; Stirches Primary School, 2006; Hawick Museum, 2006;
Ocean
Terminal, Edinburgh ,2005; Gala Studio Club, 2005; Wasps Opendoors,
2003, 2006
Explore the Body in Space: Centre
for Contemporary Arts, Kea, Greece,
2004
Make an Indian Puppet: Selkirk Library, August
2001
Puppet Making & More:
Philiphaugh Community School, August 2001
Memory Bottles:
Heriot Primary School, 2000; Kirkhope Primary
School, 1999
Expressive Painting: Selkirk Summer School, 1999
& 1998
Gallery Talks/ Demonstrations
Paint
a Portrait in the Style of Frans Hals,
Selkirk Art Club, 2011
A Ferrari Through India, with
collaborator Robert Leach, Hawick Art Club, 2010
A Ferrari Through
India, with
collaborator Robert Leach, Robson Gallery, Selkirk, 2009
The
Positioning of the Figure, Issues of Gender and Representation. Lalit Kala Akademi,
New Delhi, 2009
Artist’s
Talk, Kea Centre for Contemporary
Art, Greece, 2004
Portrait of Camille: for Therese Raquin, University
of Cumbria, 2008.
Rhinoceros masks: for Rhinoceros by
Eugene Ionesco, C I of A, 2003,
Actor training masks:
for Birmingham University Department of Drama, 1999
Selkirk Lapwing Press:
With my partner I run a small poetry
publishing company for which I am responsible for the book design.
Education
MA in Contemporary Fine
Art, University of Cumbria, 2008
Arts of India, Oxford
University Department of Continuing Education, 2006
BA (Hons) Fine
Art, Cumbria
Institute of the Arts, Carlisle, 2000
Diploma in Therapeutic Massage, College of Holistic
Medicine, Glasgow, 1995