Gina Bold is an English artist/poet, who makes paintings, stained glass and sculpture. She was an artist in residence at Arlington House from May to November 2007."Biog" page from ginabold.com.

Life and work

Gina Bold was born in London to a Greek mother and Scottish father and lived in Abbey Road, London.Wroe She studied fashion at Kilburn Polytechnic and pattern cutting.Wroe She started painting in 1987 with the encouragement of personal friend Shaun Parry-Jones. In 1993, she attended the Mary Ward Center and learned how to make

stained glass windows Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...

. She started to make small sculptures in 2006. She was exhibited for the first time in 2002 by

Barnet College Barnet and Southgate College is a further education college in North London, England. The current college was established in 2011. It has three main campuses and two other learning centres in the London Borough of Barnet and the London Borough o ...

and also at the

Stuckism International Gallery The Stuckism International Gallery was the gallery of the Stuckist art movement. It was open from 2002 to 2005 in Shoreditch, and was run by Charles Thomson, the co-founder of Stuckism. It was launched by a procession carrying a coffin marked ...

. In 2007, she held her first solo show, ''Born to Be Bold'', at the Arlington Gallery in

Camden Town Camden Town (), often shortened to Camden, is a district of northwest London, England, north of Charing Cross. Historically in Middlesex, it is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Camden, and identified in the London Plan as o ...

, London.Wroe the show consisted of 67 paintings and 10 sculptures.

Shows

*2002: Barnet college end of term show *2002: The First Stuckist International (guest artist) *2002: F-EST *2003: Art4All, Prince's Trust.Buckman p.158 *2003: Kith and Kids charity show *2003: Stuck in Wednesbury (guest artist) *2004: The Clifton, St Johns Wood, London, solo show *2004: ODPM with Vision Impossible (group show) *2005: Bull and Last, Highgate Road (solo show) *2007: Born to Be Bold (solo)Wroe *2007: The Other Side Gallery Christmas fair, Novas Gallery (group show) *2008: Spirit of Arlington: (group show) *2009: A Bite of Bold: (solo show) *2009: Bold in the Basement: (solo show) *2009: Bold 'n' Blue: (solo show) Charlotte Street Blues, London *2009: Outside In: (group show)Pallent House Gallery, Chichester

References

"Biog"
ginabold.com. Retrieved 2007-07-29. *Buckman, David (2006), "Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945", page 158. Art Dictionaries, Bristol. *McArdle, Peter

stuckism.com. Retrieved 2007-07-29. *Milner, Frank (Editor) (2004), ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', National Museums Liverpool, . An essay from the book is online a

*Thomson, Charles (2007)
"Stuck Inn II. Part two: Gina - Getting into the Gallery"
2004-04-07. Retrieved 2007-06-24. *Wroe, Simon (2007),

''Camden New Journal'' 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2007-06-21.

External links

Gina Bold web site

Review of ''Born to Be Bold''

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