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Gina Bold (born 1959 in London) is an English artist. She was exhibited by the Stuckists art group, and has been an artist in residence of Novas Arts from May to November 2007.
Life and work
Gina Bold was born in London to a Greek mother and Scottish father and lived in Abbey Road, London. She studied fashion at Kilburn Polytechnic and pattern cutting.
She started painting in 1987 with the encouragement of personal friend Shaun Parry-Jones, and by 2002 was at the Stuckism International Gallery studio of Charles Thomson, whose style was an influence on her work at this time with a style of black outlines and flat areas of colour. She was exhibited for the first time in 2002, in The First Stuckist International at the gallery. She took part in other Stuckist shows at the gallery, as well as the first show of the group in a public museum in Wednesbury. In 2002, she took part in the Stuckist demonstration, "The Death of Conceptual Art", carrying a coffin to the White Cube gallery in Shorditch, and also in the Stuckist anti-Turner Prize demonstration at Tate Britain.
In 2003, she had a disagreement with Paul Harvey about the "S&M/fetish allusion" of his painting of model Emily Mann holding a placard saying "Serota needs a good spanking", intended to promote The Stuckists Real Turner Prize Show. The show was cancelled and she left the Stuckists.
In 2003, after the death of her father, she suffered a breakdown, which she saw as a "breakthrough" to inform her art:
- I don’t think these things should be brushed under the carpet. I have severe emotional problems, panic attacks and depression, but I’m not looking for the sympathy vote. This is life – it happens and it’s hard. When I make something visual it helps. It’s not just in my mind any more; it’s there for people to see. If my work makes other people with similar problems feel less alone then I think I would have achieved something worthwhile.
In 2004, Bold vetoed the inclusion of her work in The Stuckists Punk Victorian show at the Walker Art Gallery and it was withdrawn by the museum. Disputes with the Stuckists have continued since.
In 2007, she had a solo show, Born to Be Bold, at the Arlington Gallery (since renamed the Novas Gallery) in Camden Town London, England. She became the first associate artist of the Novas Group, (Novas Scarman Group)the charity who run the gallery.
Shows
- 2002: The First Stuckist International
- 2002: F-EST
- 2002: The Real Turner Prize Show
- 2003: The Stuckists Summer Show
- 2003: Stuckist Artists
- 2003: Art4All, Princes Trust
- 2003: Kith and Kids charity show
- 2003: Stuck in Wednesbury
- 2004: Stuckism at the Affordable Art Fair
- 2004: The Stuckists Punk Victorian fringe shows
- 2005: Hysterical Shock (solo)
- 2007: Born to Be Bold (solo)
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Buckman p.158
- ^ "Biog" page from ginabold.com.
- ^ Wroe
- ^ Milner, p 23. From "Stuckist on Stuckism" essay (also online)
- ^ Milner, p 74.
- ^ McArdle
- ^ Thomson, "Stuck Inn II".
References
- "Biog", ginabold.com. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
- Buckman, David (2006), "Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945", page 158. Art Dictionaries, Bristol. ISBN 095326095-X
- McArdle, Peter, "Gina Bold", stuckism.com. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
- Milner, Frank (Editor) (2004), The Stuckists Punk Victorian, National Museums Liverpool, ISBN 1-902700-27-9. An essay from the book is online at "A Stuckist on Stuckism".
- Thomson, Charles (2007), "Stuck Inn II. Part two: Gina - Getting into the Gallery", 2004-04-07. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
- Wroe, Simon (2007), "Bold Strokes From Gina". Camden New Journal 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2007-06-21.