Gina Glover | Photographic Artist and Educationalist

Gina Glover was born in London, England. She trained in Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art, later obtaining a photography degree at the University of Westminster. She is a co-founder and Director of the Photofusion Photography Centre, London and a freelance photographic artist and lecturer.

Gina makes site specific artwork for hospitals and lectures on themes such as 'Creativity, Photography and the Mind'. In 2004 she was interviewed for the British Sound Archives of the British Library. She was winner of the Medical Research Council/Novartis/Daily Telegraph Visions of Science Award in 2003 and 2004 for her pictures ‘Chromosomal Stripy Socks’ (2003) and ‘Portrait of Portraits’ - A Picture of a Dialysis Patient (2004). These photographs were created during her artist-in-residency in the Genetics Department at Guy’s Hospital, London and in Northwick Park Hospital, London.

In 2005, she received a Research And Development Award from the Arts Council (East Midlands) for her project, ‘Site Transition’. Part of this series was exhibited in The Archaeology of Everyday Things at Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Gallery, Northamptonshire in May 2006. Another exhibition in 2006 includes: ‘Dedale: Photographs from the Gresigne Forest’, France in May.

Her ‘Sea’ photographs were exhibited as part of Fotofest, Houston in 2004 and in both the Des Santos gallery, Houston and Harris Interiors Gallery in Poole in 2005.

A portfolio of her work appears in Dislocation magazine, Toronto (2005), AG magazine (issue 29), and Portfolio magazine (issue 36).

Photofusion picture library distributes her social documentary photography, and Millennium and Corbis distribute her art photography. Her fine art prints are distributed by Des Santos Gallery, Houston, USA; Harris Interiors, Poole, UK; and Le Blue Ciel, Lyon, France.

Her public artwork can be seen at:
St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton
Trinity Hospice, London
The Conquest Hospital, Hastings
Bexhill General Hospital, Bexhill On Sea
All Saints Hospital, Eastbourne
George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton
Central Middlesex Hospital, London
Guy’s Hospital, London
St Thomas’ Hospital, London




		1986	BA in Photography (Distinction), Polytechnic of Central London.
		1971	Post Graduate Teachers' Diploma, Whitelands College, London.
		1967	BA Art & Design, Chelsea School of Art, University of London.


		2002 -	External Examiner, BA in Public Art / Fine Art, Middlesex University London
		2000	External Examiner, BTEC HN Public Art, Barnet College London
		1998-2001	External assessor, City and Guild Photography and BTEC HN Public Art.
		1981 -	Freelance Photographer, Artist, Educationalist, Curator and Workshop Leader. External assessor City and Guild Photography and BTEC HN Public Art.


		2000 - 2001	DPICT.
		1991 -	Photofusion Photography Centre.
		1995 - 1997	Women's Art Library.
		1985 - 1986	Arts Council Photography Advisory Panel (Member).
		1984 -	Glanmoor Investments Ltd.
		1983 - 1984	Camerawork.


		2003 -	Harris Interiors (fine art prints).
		2001 -	Picassomio (web distribution).
		2000 -	Digital Prints distributed by Inside Space. Manuela Hofer Print Gallery (web distribution).
		1998 -	Slide distribution by Flowerphoto Agency. Slides and supportive material held in the IRIS collection.
		1996 -	Corbis Picture Library (web distribution).
		1991 -	Photographs distributed by Photofusion Photo Library.
		1986 -	Slides and supportive material held by Women's Art Library.


		2003 -	Artist in Residence, Northwick Park Hospital London, Renal Unit.
		2003	Artist in Residence, Guys Hospital London, Genetics Department.
		2001	Pinhole Workshop. Photofusion. Photograms Workshop Photofusion.
		2000 -	Mentoring and portfolio advice. Photofusion.
		2000	The Secret Garden, Residencies at St. Andrew's Psychiatric Hospital, Northampton.
			The Hole Thing, Residencies at Thomas Coram Foundation.
			Pinhole to Pixel Workshop. Photofusion.
		1999 - 2000	Chemical Communication, Artist advisor and co-ordinator 'It's in your head' exhibition. Photofusion Gallery and Natural History Museum, Kensington.
		1997 -	Joint Curator of Photofusion Education and Gallery Programme.
		1998 - 2000	Gwen Mahoney Garden, Residency, Hopton Road Residential Home for People with Long term Mental Illness.
		1999	Closing Days Opening Eyes, Queen Charlotte's Psychiatric Hospital, Hastings.
			Poetry Labels Documentation of poet Sarah McGuire, The Chelsea Physics Garden, London.
		1996 - 1998	Camera Fun, Residency, The Closed Unit, Springfield Psychiatric Hospital.
		1997	Inside Out, Residency, Royal Bethlem Psychiatric Hospital.


		2003	Sea Scape, George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton
		2002	A Portrait of All Saints Hospital, All Saints Hospital, Eastbourne
			Shaking the Tail Feather, Bexhill Museum, Bexhill
			Corridor Voices, Central Middlesex Hospital, London, Permanent Exhibition
		2000	Sea of Nectar. Woodlands mental health unit, Conquest Hospital, Hastings- Permanent Exhibition.
			Closing Days Opening Eyes. Queen Charlotte's Psychiatric Hospital, Hastings - Permanent Exhibition.
		1997 - 1998	The Four Seasons. Residency Permanent Exhibition, Trinity Hospice, Clapham.
		1997	Inside-Out. Exhibition celebrating 750 years of Royal Bethlem Psychiatric Hospital.
		1994	Outside-In. Maudsley Hospital, London, Permanent Exhibition.
		1992	Posters for Mainliners Drugs/HIV Campaign.
		1991	Waiting. Photographs of Mozambican refugees in Malawi for Aid Agencies.
			Documentation of Artist in Residence, Hammersmith Hospital for Public Art Development Fund.
			Life in Lambeth. Permanent Exhibition, St Thomas's Hospital, London.
			Breast Feeding. Exhibition for National Childbirth Trust.


		2004	Sea At Rest, Fotofest, Houston, USA
		2003	About Time, Gables Yard Gallery, Norfolk
		2003	Encounters Sussex Open 03, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
		2002	Round Trip, group exhibition, Tom Blau Gallery, London
			Outside Time, Trace Gallery, Weymouth, Dorset
			Obsessions, group exhibition, Huddersfield Art Gallery
		2001	Tunnel Visions. Conquest Hospital, Hastings.
			Shore Light. De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea.
			Telling Tales from A Garden and Tunnel Visions. Part of Other Peoples Gardens. Bridport Art Centre, Dorset
			Pathways to Memory. Part of Shifting Horizons -Women's Landscape Photography Now. Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
		2000	Hereford Festival, Telling Tales from a Garden. Part of Obsessions exhibition. The Globe Art Gallery, Hay on Wye.
			Pathways to Memory. Part of Shifting Horizons -Women's Landscape Photography Now. M.A.C. Gallery, Birmingham.
			Landscapes, Pinhole Photography. Conquest Hospital, Hastings.
			Organics, Tunnel Visions. Manuela Hofer Photographic Print Gallery, London.
			Portrait of a Village- Kynnersley 2000. Bear Steps Gallery, Shrewsbury.
		1999	Pathways to memory. Obsessions exhibition, Standpoint Gallery, London.
		1998	Tunnel Visions. Photofusion, London.
			Tunnel Visions. Watershed Media Centre, Bristol.
		1996	Tunnel Visions. Peterborough Art Gallery.
		1995	Our Bodies Ourselves. Exhibition, Edinburgh.
		1994	Creating the Subject. Morley College Gallery, London.
			Our Bodies Ourselves. Exhibition, Nottingham Castle.
		1993	Earth. South Bank Open Photography Show, London.
			Growing Pains / Out of the Glass House. Photofusion, London.
			HIV/AIDS Facts. Impressions Gallery, York. Photographers' Gallery, London.


		2004	a-n magazine, April 2004
			Semta Matters, April 2004
			Health Service Journal 26.02.04
			Public Health News, 09.02.04
			Financial Times, Letter page 06.02.04
			The Guardian, Public Enquiry 04.02.04
		2003	Informed Magazine, 20.12.03
			British Medical Journal Volume 326, 28.06.2003
			British Journal of Photography 23.04.2003
		2002	Portfolio Number 36, December 2002
			Ag magazine Volume 29, October 2002
			The Lancet 15.06.02
			British Medical Journal Volume 324, 19.01.02
			British Journal of Photography 16.01.02
		2001	Mental Health Today, Technical to the Imagination, November 01
			Shifting Horizons, Women's Landscape Photography Now. Edited by Liz Wells
		2000	'Portraits of a Village' Kynnersley
			British Journal of Photography 07.06.00
		1999	Mental Health Care Journal Volume 3 Issue 3
		1998	Mental Health Care Journal Volume 1 Issue 3
		1996	International Women's Art Diary
		1993	British Journal of Photography 8 July 1993
		1988	Creative Camera June


		2003	Visions of Science First prize DNA Award
		2002	Arts for All award Obsession 2, group show.
			South East Arts project Development award
		2000	Year of the Artist Award, East Midlands Arts for Residency, St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton.
		1999	Koestler Award.
		1998	Art for Everyone Group Show Award for Obsessions, a four woman show.
		1996	Individual Artist Photographer - London Arts Board Award.
		1985	Individual Artist Photographer - London Arts Board Award.


		2004	BA in Photography, Stockport College
			Photographic Art in Hospitals, Brighton Conference
			MA in Photography and Urban Studies, Goldsmiths College
		2003	Photogenetics, York Genetic Conference
		2002	May - BA in Photography / Mixed Media, Croydon College - Photography and Urban Studies, Goldsmiths College London
			April - Art in Hospitals, St Georges Hospital London
			March - Dark Light, London Independent Photography
			February - An Artist Practice, Public Art NVC Diploma, Barnet College, London
			January – MA in Public Art, Chelsea School of Art
		2001	November - MA Photography, De Monfort University, Leicester
			May - Beyond Perception. MA in Curation, University of Essex.
			March - Creative Photography and the Mind. Castle Day Centre.
			Pathways to Recovery, Bridport Art Centre, Dorset
			February - 1st Year Degree Photography. Nottingham and Trent University.
			January - Dark Light. MA Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art.
		2000	June - An Artist Practice. Public Art NVC Diploma, Barnet College, London.
		1999	September - Picture Libraries and Agencies. Site Gallery, Sheffield.
			September - Chemical Communications. part of 'It's in your Head' an Art Meets Science Project. Photofusion Gallery, London.
			February - Pathways to Memory. Standpoint Gallery.
		1998	October - Creativity, Photography and the Mind. Beyond Perception, Lambeth.
			June - Creativity and Madness. Tunnel Visions. Photofusion Gallery, London.
			February - Inside Out, Method and Madness: Creativity and Mental Illness. Museum of London.