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                                              Joy Parker: CV

 

Exhibitions

 

Forthcoming Exhibitions

Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln: 2012

Solo Exhibitions

                Cakes and Cossacks, Tonia’s, Birmingham: 2011

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

Wasps Spring Exhibition, Selkirk: 2011

Sunflower Restaurant, Peebles:2011, 2010

Smoke House Gallery, Eyemouth:2010

Spring Art Exhibition, Hawick Museum:2010, 2007

A Ferrari Through India, with invited artists, Woodbridge Gallery, Birmingham: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

Beltane Studios, Peebles:2005

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

Woodside Nursery, Harestanes, Jedburgh:2004

 

 

Performance

Facing Back, In collaboration with Robert Leach, University of Cumbria: 2006

 

 

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

 

 

Theatre

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

 

 

Residencies

Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India: 2009

Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi, Kerala, India: 2008

 

 

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

 

 

Workshops/Educational projects

Living Room Project: Exploring a sense of place in the Scottish Borders: Hawick Vision 2014 Viewing Points, 2011

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:2011, 2010

Willow Sculpture with Liz Douglas,  Galashiels Academy: 2010, 2001

Life Drawing, Borders College: 2007- 2008

Painting for Pleasure, Borders College: 2005-2008

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

 

Publications

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