CV

Qualifications

• Educated at North London Collegiate School
• MB BS St Mary’s Hospital Medical School 1974
• MRCOG 1980
• Fellow Royal College Obstetricians & Gynaecologists FRCOG 1995
• FdA Applied Art & Design, Wiltshire College 2011
• BA Creative Arts: Applied Art and Design, Bath Spa University 2013
• MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking, with distinction, University of the West of England 2017
• Meir Agassi Book Art Prize 2017

2009 – 2015

• Participated in ‘One and Other’, Antony Gormley, Fourth Plinth, August 2009
• R K Burt, ‘Paperworks’, London, 2010
• Silk Mill, ‘Body Matters’, Frome, 2010
• FdA Show, ‘Off The Wall’, Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, 2011
• Studio assistant & gallery work with Martin Creed at Hauser & Wirth, Savile Row, London,
  prior to the opening of his exhibition ‘Mothers’ in January 2011
• School of Art & Design Degree Show, Creative Arts, Elements Art Space, Bath, 2012
• Off the S{h}elf, Stockwell Studios, London, 2012
• Say Something – An Impression of My 2012, SoapboxPress
• Bath School of Art & Design Degree Show, Dartmouth Avenue, 2013
• Nine months studio, fabrication & gallery work with Martin Creed
  for his two New York shows 2013 and ‘What’s The Point of It’ at The Hayward Gallery 2014
  MC WORK 1695 https://dailyartfair.com/exhibition/2286/martin-creed-hauser-wirth

2015

• United Artists for World Book Night, ‘Shine On’, contributor
• ‘Cracker’, collaborative project at Artists’ Books Club (ABC) at UWE

2016

• turn the page Norwich, symposium attendance & book fair, for ABC UWE
• United Artists for World Book Night ‘Serena Joy’, contributor & Halifax workshop
• Arnolfini UWE Annual Miniature Print exhibition
• Adana CPD workshop, UWE summerschool
• Cover design for Blue Notebook Vol. 11 No. 1
• Residency – Studio Guiglio Inaugural Screenprinting, Siena

2017

• Degree Show, Bower Ashton, UWE, & InDesign degree show leaflet
• Pilgrim Passport selected for ‘Redesigning the Medieval Book’ exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries
• Paper Structures course attended during year at Spike Island, with exhibition at Centrespace, Bristol
• United Artists for World Book Night, ‘BookIshNess’, contributor and travelling investigator
• BABE (Bristol Artists Book Event) Arnolfini, with ABC
• Poster presentation at the first UWE Student Conference, Can Sophie Take Care of Herself?
• Liverpool Book Art Fair
• Room accepted for Museum of Lost Public Notices, Melbourne
• books sold at Art Book Berlin
• MA Professional Practice Residency, Ravenna
• TopShed Residency, Norfolk
• Print in online curated exhibition, Cultivate: Something Blue

2018

• Bound to Bristol. Pop-up exhibition by UWE curating students
• The Tetley, Leeds, launch of AMBruno ‘Cover’ project
• Berlin Art Book Fair MISS READ with AMBruno ‘Cover’
• Liverpool Library Frankenstein, exhibition also transferred to Kirkby Gallery in Knowsley
• ‘Redesigning the Medieval Book’ exhibition and artists talk, Bower Aston Library at UWE
• United Artists for World Book Night ‘Found on the Isthmus’ exhibition UWE Bower Ashton Library
• Asheville Bookworks, North Carolina, USA ‘It’s Alive!’ Frankenstein 200 Exhibition Miserable Apparition
• Artist in Residence, Adana Masterclass Angie Butler summer school UWE
• OFFSET book accepted by Rejectamenta
• ‘Interruptions’ print exhibited in Municipal Gallery of Pireus

2019

• BABE Bristol Artists Book Event
• turn the page symposium attendance, Norwich
• United Artists for World Book Night, ‘Gwalia Gazette’, tour guide and staff reporter
• Exquisite Book project, Artists Book Club, UWE
• TopShed Residency, Norfolk
• Invitation to participate in ‘Posted/Unposted British Isles’ letterpress publishing project https://cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/project/posted-unpostedbritish-isles-second-iteration-of-the-posted-unposted-project/
• Libros de Artista exhibition, Marie Curie, San Telmo Museum, Donostia, Spain

2020

• New Modernist Editing workshop, Edinburgh
• United Artists for World Book Night, librarian for ‘Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?’
• ‘United in Isolation’ exhibition, letterpress response to a pandemic, Animales de Lorca, Valencia
• Artist’s Book Yearbook 2020/2021 Artist’s Page
• General Scholarship awarded by Gladstone Library, to explore the use of colour in books
• Postcards for Perec, project initiator
  https://cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/project/postcards-for-perec/

2021

• United Artists for World Book Night, co-ordinator for ‘The Herbarium’.
• ‘Lockdown Retrospective’ presentation for Artists’ Books Club UWE Book Arts
• Postcards for Perec slideshow, and artists books, shown online in ‘The Lost Weekend’ Bristol Artists Book Event
• Postcards for Perec featured by invitation in Bulletin No. 78 of the Association Georges Perec
• Postcards for Perec launch and exhibition Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol
• Postcards for Perec exhibition Winchester School of Art
• Artist’s Book for AMBruno, ‘Volume’, Life A Listener’s Manual https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MsLtyfLfwTk
  Collection bought by British Library.

2022

• Postcards for Perec, poster exhibition, The Street Gallery Bath Spa University Locksbrook Campus
• United Artists for World Book Night, co-ordinator for ‘Ghosts in the Machine’.
• Postcards For Perec published, ISBN 978-1-906501-21-1
• Online presentation to ‘Space, Place, Practice’ Postcards for Perec
• Artist’s Book Proposal accepted for AMBruno ‘Margins’
• Postcards For Perec exhibited at Bristol Artists Book Event at Bower Ashton
• turn the page book fair, Norwich
• Postcards For Perec featured in ‘Patastrophe! No. 5 by Surrealerpool ISBN 9781910467220
• Postcards For Perec exhibited at Special Collections Library, Cardiff University
• Life A Listener’s Manual exhibited and for sale with AMBruno at Printed Matter Inc. New York
• cfpr summer school Advanced Tetrapak with Stephen Fowler
• Inaugural Bristol Editions book fair, Centrespace, Bristol
• Print Tower of Hercules in Exhibition V International Mini Print Cantabria, ‘The Sea and the Lighthouses’, then incorporated into the Port Authority of Santander Collection.
• Plate in online exhibition Liverpool Book Art ‘2020 Vision: Magellan’s Voyage of Discovery’
• ‘Beyond The Pale’ Bodleian Library call for prints, awarded first prize for Black Album.
• Istanboulipo – exhibition of Postcards For Perec in Istanbul Festival of Architecture & Design
• Pushing the Margins launched with AMBruno at Small Publishers Fair
  http://www.ambruno.co.uk/margins.html
• Postcards For Perec exhibited at Collins Memorial Library, Puget Sound University, Washington
• Circumnavigation conceptual book included in compilation ‘A Material Book of Conceptual Books’ by Gomez and Sherman ISBN 9780998071121
• Postcards for Perec reviewed by Corinne Welch in Printmaking Today, Vol 31 Winter 2022 Issue 124
• Postcards for Perec acquired by the National Art Library, V&A Museum
• Full sets of AMBruno Volumes and Margins projects, including Life A Listener’s Manual and Pushing the Margins bought by The British Library

2023

• Postcards for Perec exhibited at the Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex, Colchester
• United Artists for World Book Night, co-organiser for ‘We Remember’.
• Artist’s book Snow exhibited in ‘The Mountains are calling…’ at Bower Ashton library in Bristol as part of the LAND2/UWE collaboration
• Pushing the Margins included in ‘Space, Line, Colour’ curated by Julie Johnstone in Bower Ashton Special Cabinets
• Pushing the Margins at Offprint London 2023, Tate Modern Turbine Hall with AMBruno
• Postcards for Perec exhibited 10th International Design Week, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta
• Tower of Hercules tetrapak miniprint in exhibition at Castle Lighthouse, Castro Urdiales Hall, Cantabria
• ‘We Remember’ exhibited at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK and at Hong Kong Design Institute
• Artists’ Books Club UWE Night and Day exhibition at Bower Ashton Library.
• Postcards for Perec exhibited at the Waverley Library, Bondi Junction, NSW.
• Postcards for Perec photo-essay published in Axon Journal: Creative Explorations Text/Page/Art
  https://www.axonjournal.com.au/issues/13-1/two-hundred-and-forty-three-postcards-real-colour
• Circumnavigation analysed in ‘Thinking Books’ on the CBAA Book Art Theory Blog: https://www.collegebookart.org/bookarttheory/13234699.
• Books shown at inaugural Wales Artists’ Book Fair, Newport, Powys.
• Screenprints Canekkale I&II exhibited in VI International Mini Print Cantabria, Santander.
• Interview and mention in ‘Redesigning the Medieval Book’, chapter ‘Creating Playful First Encounters with the Pre-Modern Past: Teaching the Middle Ages’ by Daniel Wakelin.
• Postcards for Perec interview online magazine Bi_özet
  https://bi-ozet.com/2023/04/14/soylesi-linda-parr-ile-perec-kartpostallari-sergisi-uzerine/
  

2024

• Co-organiser for United Artists for World Book Night at UWE, ‘In Praise of Birds’.
• Bower Ashton UWE exhibition installation for #wbn2024.
• ABC UWE Abecedarian project and book contributor.
• ‘In Praise of Birds’ Exhibition in Library Gallery Bower Ashton UWE.
• Bristol Artists Book Event BABE at Bower Ashton
• Artist’s Book ‘Periodicity‘.
• Artist’s Book in collaboration with Kate Bernstein ‘Drinks in the Library‘.
• Artist’s Book ‘Uncoupled Derailed‘ with Risograph printing by Csilla Biro.
• Digital prints Hornby Lighthouse & Heemskerck exhibited in VII Int. Mini Print Cantabria, Santander.
• ‘Exercises for All’ exhibition in Bower Ashton Library UWE
• Postcards for Perec exhibited in Bower Ashton Library UWE
• Artist’s Book ‘1984 ‘ for Book Art Museum Łódź
• Literary Pies digital pie charts in print and online in ‘Patastrophe!#9
• Contributor to ‘Anthology’, celebrating ‘turn the page’ Norwich
• Presented and exhibited Postcards for Perec at ‘Rendez-vous’ symposium, British Library
  
  2025
  
• United Artists for World Book Night, co-organiser for ‘Tell it to the Trees’.
• Postcards for Perec exhibited at Institut français, Edinburgh
• Postcards for Perec article published by UCL PRESS Paper Trails, The Social Life of Archives and Collections
  https://ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article/3/157
• Artists’ books shown at ‘Into The Fold’, Winchester Artists’ Books & Zine Fair
• ‘Tell it to the Trees’ exhibition in Library Gallery Bower Ashton UWE.
• ‘Bestiary’ exhibition in Library Gallery Bower Ashton UWE.
• Postcards for Perec exhibited at Institute français du Royaume-Uni
  https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/postcards-for-perec/#/
• Postcards for Perec interview at IFRU
  https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/read-watch-listen-list/interview-with-linda-parr/#/
•  Artist in Residence 2025 in the Library of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni
• BIODIVERS 2 International diversity collaborative print project from Odine Lang
• AMBruno FINALE, or The Death of The Author launched with performance at Tate Britain
• Hermitage puppet digital print, magazine and online ‘Patastrophe!#10
• FINALE, or The Death of The Author acquired by British Library

Work held in private and public collections including UWE Bower Ashton Library, British Library, Bodleian Collection, National Art Library at V&A, Bath Spa University Library, Winchester School of Art Library, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Rare Book Collection of the State Library of Victoria, Newberry Library, Chelsea College of Arts Library & Tate Britain Library and Archive.