Artist in Residence Gina Southgate

Across Cultural Boundaries Festival

Gina will be painting each gig live in the room for the whole Festival.

She well known on the London free music and jazz scene where she has painted and/or performed live at gigs for 30 years. She had her first solo exhibition of gig paintings at London’s Jazz café in 1988. She works with the frisson of the music observing the relationship between the musician and instrument. She tries to capture the energy and essence of the gig in the real time. Sometimes she works solely with sound and ignores the visual content producing abstract imagery. In performance situations she uses her materials and surfaces sonically.