Joy Parker

I am a visual artist using both traditional and contemporary methods to investigate contemporary life, including painting and sculpture as well as performance and installation. 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.

  Curriculum Vitae

Exhibitions

Forthcoming

Wise and Unwise, Old Gala House, August 2008

Solo Exhibitions

The Ford Factory Series, Ettrick Riverside, Scottish Enterprise, 2007, Selkirk

The Ford Factory Series, The Forest Bookshop, 2007, Selkirk

Untitled, Jaggy Thistle, 2005, Selkirk

Planted in the Air, 2004,  Tolbooth Arts Centre, Kirkcudbright

Undertones of India 2, 2002, Woodbridge Gallery, Birmingham

Undertones of India, 2001, Robson Gallery, Selkirk

The One & The Many, 2000, Stonebow Farm House, Peopleton, Worcestershire

New Paintings & Sculptures, 1997, Penicuik Community Arts Centre

Group Exhibitions

Flat Cat Gallery, 2008, Lauder

Over and Out. MA Show, 2007, Carlisle

Corte Real Gallery, 2007, Portugal

Gallery on the Green, 2007, Denholm

Wasps Artists, 2007, Hawick Museum

MA Show, 2006, Cumbria Institute of Art & Design

Old Gala House, 2006, Galashiels

Scottish Borders Council Head Quarters, 2006, 2008Newtown St. Boswells.

Beltane Studios, 2005, Peebles

Maggie’s Art Sale, 2005, Just Scottish, Edinburgh

Art in the Mall, 2005, Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh

Wasps Artists, 2005, 2006, 2007, Selkirk Studios

Art on the Links Gallery, 2005, St Andrews

Art @ City Park, 2004, City Park, Glasgow

Stoneworks, 2004, Coldstream Museum

Wasps Artists, 2004, Tweeddale Museum, Peebles

Wasps Artists, 2004, Ettrick Riverside, Selkirk

Woodside Nursery, 2004, Harestanes, Jedburgh

Wasps Opendoors, 2005, 2004 & 2003, Selkirk Studios

Flat Cat Gallery, 2003, Lauder

Branded, 2000, Cumbria Institute of the Arts degree show

Seconds Out, 1999, Carlisle

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, 2007. Portrait. Faculty of Public Health . Royal College of Physicians, UK

Kist, 2003  Southern Upland Way.  Part of the project Waymerks

Workshops

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; Museum Ocean Terminal Edinburgh 2005; Gala Studio Club, 2005; Wasps Opendoors, 2003, 2006

Make a Mosaic: Melrose Grammar, 2006; Tweeddale Museum, 2005 & 2004; Coldstream Museum, 2004; Hawick Museum, 2004 & 2003; Hawick High School, 2004,  Wasps Opendoors 2004; Galashiels Academy, 2003

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 Talk

Kea Centre for Contemporary Art, Greece, 2004

Theatre

Actor training masks Birmingham University, 1999,  Rhinoceros masks  Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco, C I of A, 2003

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, Cumbria Institute of the Arts. 2007

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

Employment (current)

Painting & Drawing Lecturer, (Evening Class) Borders College, Hawick

Life Drawing Lecturer, (Evening Class) Borders College, Hawick