Artist’s Statement
For most of the last forty years my investigations have been based on developing ideas in paper using it variously as substrate, as independent medium, and in combination with other materials.
My work draws on two areas of subject-matter which separately and together continue to sustain me: a response on the one hand to changes in landscape and the elements, and on the other to information, its containment and manipulation.
Jacki Parry travelled from Australia to Europe in 1965 and has lived and worked in Scotland since 1970. She studied at Glasgow School of Art 1970 -1975, gaining a Diploma of Art in Printmaking & a Post-Diploma in Printed Textiles.
Jacki was a founder member of the Glasgow Print Studio in 1972 and The Paper Workshop (Glasgow) in 1985, before becoming Head of Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art from 19912001.
In Barcelona she studied papermaking with Laurence Barker and in Shiroishi, Japan with Tadao Endo. She has exhibited and lectured internationally and her
work is represented in private and public collections in the UK and abroad, including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, the Hunterian Print Collection, Glasgow, and the British Council, London.
For the past forty years she has continued to explore the material and perceptual possibilities of paper and print, implicit in the dissemination of knowledge and information in the sense of printed matter, and also in the development of a personal aesthetic.
Born 1941, Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia
1961 TSTC Melbourne (Art & Craft) 1972 Founder-member, Glasgow Print Studio 1974 Diploma of Art (Printmaking) Glasgow School of Art
1974. Postgraduate Diploma (Printed Textiles) Glasgow School of Art
1976-1981 Studio Assistant, Printmaking Department, Glasgow School of Art
1981-1985 Lecturer (p/t) MA (Design) Course, Glasgow School of Art
1983 Studied with Laurence Barker at Barcelona Paper Workshop
1985-1991 Lecturer (p/t) Sculpture Department, Glasgow School of Art
1986 Founder of The Paper Workshop, Glasgow.
1989 Studied with Tadao Endo, Shiroishi, Miyagi, Japan.
1991-2001 Senior Lecturer, Head of Printmaking, SOFA, Glasgow School of Art 2001-2006 Senior Lecturer (p/t) School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
2009 Elected to the Royal Scottish Academy SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITONS
2024 Jacki Parry, Paper and Prints, Line Gallery, Linlithgow
2019 Reverberations, Gallowgate Studios, Glasgow
2016 Jacki Parry, Gallery Zembla, Hawick no book can be a ladder? Weisse Villa, Biorama Projekt, Joachimsthal, Germany 2013 resonance, Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh Jacki Parry, Recent Work, Lorient Inter-Celtique Festival, Brittany, France
2012 resonance, Glasgow Print Studio Gallery, Glasgow / Peacock Gallery, Aberdeen
2011 Memory Weaving, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria, Australia 2008 The Towers of Babel, Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr
2003 Recent Work, Roger Bilcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2001 ways of editing, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, Outer Hebrides
1999 ways of editing, Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh ways of editing, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London ways of editing, Peacock Gallery, Aberdeen
1998 ways of editing, Pepper Street Gallery, Adelaide ways of editing, Nonohana Museum, Iwate Art Festival UK’98 Japan ways of editing, Gallery Hosokawa, Osaka, Japan
1991 Museum & Art Gallery of N.T, Darwin, Australia Visible Traces + Works in Handmade Paper
1990 Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney Isles Smiths Gallery, Covent Garden Festival, London
1989 Prints and Sculpture, Galleria Harmonia, Jyvaskyla, Finland.
1988 Recent Work, Galerie Zabo, Nurnberg
Daly River Night – Images of North Western Australia, Paper-works and Prints, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, touring to Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling. 1985 Recent Work, Galerie Zabo, Nurnberg Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie
1976-1985 1984 Prints & Paper-works, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1981 Prints, State University of New York 1980 Prints & Drawings, Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee 1980 Prints & Drawings, Langthorn Art Centre, Livingston 1979 Prints & Drawings, Richard Demarco Gallery,Edinburgh
1978 Prints, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop
1977 Prints & Drawings, Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen Prints & Drawings, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock Prints & Drawings, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
1976 Glasgow School of Art Museum (Cargill Scholar)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Exhibition with Jacki Parry and Donald MacDonald, Tatha Gallery, Newport on Tay
2024 In Conversation with Trees, Fen Ditton Gallery, Cambridge
2023 The Love of Print, Kelvingrove Art gallery & Museum, Glasgow
2022 Assembled, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2021 Drink in the Beauty, GOMA, Glasgow
2017 Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition Amateras, International Paper Exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria Ink, Glasgow Print Studio Gallery, Glasgow
2015 Ripples on the Pond, GOMA, Glasgow
2014 Sculpture at Mompesson House, Salisbury Craft Generation, FCAC, St. Andrews
2013 40x40, Glasgow Print Studio, Gallery, Glasgow
2013 21 Revolutions: Two Decades of Changing Minds at Glasgow Women’s Library, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2012 21 Revolutions: Two Decades of Changing Minds at Glasgow Women’s Library, CCA, Glasgow Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Studio 58. Women Artists in Glasgow Since WWar2, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2011 In Japan, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Craft in Dialogue, Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh
2009-2021 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh
2008 Merge: Developments in Digital Printmaking, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow 2007 Demarcos Festival, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh Working Drawings, Glasgow In Print, Pentagon Centre, Glasgow
Scottish Blend, Galerie in Zabo, Nurnberg, Germany
2006 Women in Contemporary Printmaking, University of Baroda, India Curated by Kavita Shah. A touring exhibition. Catalogue 20 Years of Gallowgate Studios, East Campbell Street, Glasgow Thirty Years, Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr
2005 Tower of Babel, Carnegie Museum, Hobart, Australia
2004 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Tower of Babel, Gallery 101, Melbourne, Australia
2002 In Praise of Trees, Sculpture in the Cathedral, Salisbury Festival, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London Jacki Parry / Nobuko Watanabe, Gallery Hosokawa, Osaka 2001 On Paper: New Paper Art curated by Jane Thomas, Crafts Council Gallery, London (Catalogue) Paper as Object, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland curated by Christine Ballinger, touring throughout Australia (Catalogue) In-Print: Evolution in Contemporary Printmaking, curated by Roland Box, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. A touring exhibition (Catalogue) Crossing Borders: British Art in Norway, Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, curated by Elin Solstad. A touring exhibition (Catalogue) Thirteen Hands, West Highland Museum, Fort William & touring Gifted. Inches Carr Craft Bursary Winners, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh
2000 Gallery Taf, Kyoto, Japan Paper Sphere, Mannga Centre for Japanese Culture, Cracow, Poland Cambridge / Glasgow, Ten Prints for New Hall, Hughson Gallery, Glasgow and New Hall, University of Cambridge (Catalogue) Expressions: Scottish Art 1976-1989, Aberdeen Art Gallery & DCA, Dundee T-House for the City, Lighthouse, Glasgow The Book Society, St. Magnus Festival, Stromness Library, Orkney Isles (Catalogue) Royal Glasgow Institute invited artist, Maclellan Galleries, Glasgow (Catalogue)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
UK
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen
B.B.C. British Council, London
Creative Scotland Department of the Environment, London
Dumbartonshire Education Authority, Dumbarton
Dundee Education Authority, Dundee
Glasgow Print Studio Archive, Glasgow
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Glasgow University Print Collection, Glasgow
Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow
Hunterian Print Collection, Glasgow
Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
Inverness Art Gallery
Leeds Education Authority, Leeds
Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie
Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr
New Hall Art Collection, University of Cambridge
People’s Palace, Glasgow
Strathclyde Education Authority
Tayside Print Loan Scheme
Scottish Office, Edinburgh
Australia Darling Downs Institute, Queensland
Latrobe Valley Regional Art Gallery, Morwell,Victoria
Japan Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
USA National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Paper Conservation Collection)
COMMISSIONS AND AWARDS
2024 Ottilie Helen Wallace Prize, RSA Annual Exhibition
2017 St. Enoch Centre, Glasgow in conjunction with Wave Particle
2013 Gillies Award, Royal Scottish Academy
2012 Hope Scott Trust Glasgow Women’s Library 21st Anniversary Print
2011 Glasgow Visual Arts Award
2008 Commission, New Victoria Hospital, Glasgow
2003 Crafts Council/Trade Partners UK Scottish Arts Council
2000 British Council Grant World Crafts Council
1998 Inches Carr Craft Bursary British Council Grant
1993 Public Sculpture Commission, East Kilbride Development Corporation International Kunst Preis, Nurnberg Consument Art Major Bursary, Scottish Arts Council
1990 British Council Grant Glasgow Lady Artists Club Trust Award (travelled to Japan) Scottish Arts Council Award Rite of Spring Commission, Glasgow Print Studio Calendar Series, Peacock Printmakers
1976 Cargill Scholarship, Glasgow School of Art (travelled to Poland)
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2008 Cill Riallaig, Co.Kerry, Ireland
1998 H.Suzuki, Papermaker, Geibikei, Iwate Art Festival, Japan UK’98 University of Tasmania, School of Art at Hobart, Australia WASPS Studio, Glasgow Garden Festival Soulisquoy Printmakers Workshop, Kirkwall, Orkney Isles Castle Toward, Strathclyde Education Authority Churchill College, Victoria, Australia Riverina College, New South Wales, Australia Darling Downs Institute, Queensland, Australia 1989 Galeria Harmonia, Artist in Residence, Jyvaskyla, Finland
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Jacki Parry, resonance, catalogue. Essay by Ruth Pelzer
2006 Women in Contemporary Printmaking, catalogue and collaborative print portfolio, University of Baroda
2005 Tower Of Babel, catalogue, University of Tasmania at Hobart, Australia
2001 New Paper Art, catalogue, Crafts Council, London Crossing Borders, catalogue, British Contemporary Art in Norway In-Print, catalogue, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull New Possibilities for Paper, catalogue, University of Sunshine Coast, Australia Thirteen Hands, catalogue Gifted, catalogue, National Museum of Scotland In Praise of Trees, catalogue, Salisbury Festival
1999 Jacki Parry: ways of editing: works in handmade paper. Essays by Katie Deepwell & John Calcutt. Pub. by The Paper Workshop (Glasgow) Paperwork, Crafts Magazine no. 158. May-June
1999. Essay by David Whiting
1998 Jacki Parry, ways of editing, Iwate Arts Festival catalogue UK98, Japan Later Editions: Prints from Glasgow, catalogue (as above) IAPMA Conference, Adelaide Textile Fibre Forum, Australia IAPMA Bulletin, 24th May, 1998. Adelaide Conference Report, pp10-12
1994 Jacki Parry by Alan Mann, Imprint, Journal of the Print Council of Australia Full Fathom Five, catalogue, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia
1987 Contributor to Strange Papers from around the World. Published by Fred Siegenthaler, Basel, Switzerland Jacki Parry: Daly River Night: Images of North-Western Australia, Third Eye Centre Catalogue. Essays by Liz Lochhead, Hilary Robinson and Jacki Parry
1985 Women Artists in Glasgow. Arts Review Supplement May. Essay by Jacki Parry, Kaye Lynch and Sheena MacGregor. Third Eye Centre Publication
1984 Paperworks. Essay by Thomas Wilson. Craftwork magazine (7) SDA
1983 Etching and other Intaglio Techniques, Catalogue and Essay, Scottish Arts Council publication
1980-1981 A Guide to Grants, Jobs and Other Opportunities for Art School Graduates, Jacki Parry & Roger Hoare