Joy Parker: CV
Exhibitions
Forthcoming
Exhibitions
Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln: 2012
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
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
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