Gina Bold
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Gina Boldis an English
England
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 artist/poet, who makes paintings, stained glass and sculpture. She was an artist in residence at Arlington House from May to November 2007.

Life and work

Gina Bold was born in London
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 to a Greek mother and Scottish
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 father and lived in Abbey Road
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, London
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. She studied fashion at Kilburn Polytechnic and pattern cutting.

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
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. She started to make small sculptures in 2006. She was exhibited for the first time in 2002 by Barnet College
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 and also at the Stuckism International Gallery
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.

In 2007, she held her first solo show, Born to Be Bold, at the Arlington Gallery in Camden Town
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 London
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, England
England
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. 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.
  • 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)
  • 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

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