Patricia McParlin, is an award winning British artist who lives and works in Wales. She studied at The University of Wales and The West Wales School of the Arts. She has recently been selected as a member of The Royal Cambrian Academy.
Primarily a painter, she has also worked as a musician, writer and theatre practitioner.
Her work shows this cross-disciplinary influence, encompassing film, installation, sculpture and performance art.
She has exhibited widely and her work has been purchased by corporate and individual collectors, both nationally and internationally.
Artist Statement
I am interested in the power art has to transgress boundaries. It can be in, (at least), two places at once; inner and outer, real and imagined, present and past.
It offers an instant synthesis of thought and emotion, challenging divisions between what is seen and imagined, observed and remembered. An expression both literal and metaphorical in the same moment.
'I partly see my art as a form of visual poetic, or static music….the impulse to transform…to harmonise discords…walking the line in-between beauty and brutality…the bitter sweet…'
I am currently concerned with the physicality of painting; colour, form, space, texture and the alchemy that can arise from a response to materials.
Education
B.A.(Hons) 2:1/1st English/Education, U.C.C. Cardiff 1982
P.G.C.E. English/Art/Drama, U.C.C. Cardiff 1986
B.A.(Hons) 2:1 Fine Art Painting, C.C.T.A. 2003
M.A.(Year 1) Swansea Institute 2005
Awards
Welsh Artist of the Year, student award 2001
Selections
The National Open Art Competition 2017
The Royal Cambrian Academy, selected and member 2017
The Mall Galleries, London, Society of Women Artists, 2017
British Women Artists, selected 2017
Memberships
The Royal Cambrian Academy, elected 2017
Publications
The Dictionary of Welsh Artists, 2014
Imago Mundi, Contemporary Artists from Wales, Fabrica 2016
Gallery Experience
King Street Gallery Member 2003-2006
St Dogmaels Gallery Manager 2003-2011
Selected Exhibitions
Art at the Hall, 2019
'Songlands', a large solo show, Ffwrnes Theatre, 2019
King Street Gallery, solo show, 2018
Sticks Gallery, Gosport, Female Abstraction, 2017
Oriel Q, Summer Show 2016, 2017
Boundary Art, 2015
Art at Waunifor, 2014
Off the Wall Gallery, Summer Show, Cardiff, 2012
Off the Wall Gallery, Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures, Cardiff, 2012
Oriel Q Gallery, 2011, 2014
Art @ rhos y gilwen, Pembrokeshire, 2010
Women’s Work, Off the Wall Gallery, Cardiff, 2010
Art @ rhos y gilwen, Pembrokeshire, 2008
Blood Relative,Paintworks, Bristol, 2007
Welsh Artist of the Year, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 2000,2001,2003,2007
Fresh Art, London, 2003
The National Eisteddfod of Wales, 2002
R.K.Burt Gallery, London, 2002
Art West, Carmarthen, 2002
Fairy Hill Sculpture Park, Swansea, 2002
Fifteen Individuals, Queens Hall, Narberth, 2000
Brief History
Born near Cardiff, I have always practiced as an artist, exhibiting and selling work since the early 1990’s. My first degree was in English, and following my post-graduate qualification, I taught arts in London for several years.
I completed my formal art training relatively recently, graduating in 2003. I have exhibited in many shows, both in London and Wales, winning The Welsh Artist of the Year, (student award), and being selected for The National Eisteddfod.
Currently, I continue to make work, exhibit and develop my practice across the arts.
Contact Details
E-Mail tmcp.art@gmail.com
Websites https://www.axisweb.org/p/patriciamcparlin
https://www.riseart.com/user/patricia-mcparlin
