Ray Parry
Dressed in his costume for one of the
Lismore Lantern Parade 2016 performances,
Ray decided to drop into the Serpentine
where, once again, he put a smile
on everyone's face - 22 June 2016
Serpentine Community Gallery director/manager Corinne Batt-Rawden serves a delighted Ray Parry
the Arts Cafe's first cuppa
for this year's show
Colourful stall markers: Ray Parry artworks and a Chang mural
Ray Parry art, Ray hard at work,
Ray with Anthony Eden new owner of a Ray Parry original,
and Ray with his twin brother Alan Parry
Fellow artist Kane Bowman, our neighbour stage manager Darryl and Ray enjoy a
'creative men's moment'
Poet Ray performs for an ever increasing audience with 2NCR DJ Margy
Alexander recording his first political poem "Bullshit" for broadcast on air.
CreativExchange @ Lismore Show 2012
18 - 20 October
'I Love Music'
'My Heritage'
Artist statement: 'Being part of something, belonging to something or someone and having a go.
My own flag represents my ancestral links, who I am and where I come from - Cornwall, Ireland and Scotland.
The corner flag is my own invention, a mixture of them all and Australia including indigenous Australia.'
- Ray Parry, October 2012
Acrylic on canvas artworks from
held 5 - 24 October 2012
'Ray's Box'
Mixed media
'What I am – Art Start' - a poem by Ray Parry
I paint what I am, day-to-day,
I draw what I see to be happy.
What I am beyond feeling and beyond the mind,
And the colours become real beyond the mind.
Dance free in the spirit, and the sun will shine,
And you’ll glow, like a fire in the wintertime.
I write what I am and the things around me,
I sing songs about ‘me’, about ‘you’ and ‘I’ and ‘us’.
Well I am, what I am, and the days are all clear,
Because I draw what I am,
Well I am what I am,
I’m happy in ‘it’!
I am happy in ‘it’!
from Home Sweet Home
- a combined exhibition by members of the Blue Knob Hall, Roxy and Serpentine galleries -
August 2012 @ the Serpentine Community Gallery
September/October 2012 @ Blue Knob Hall Gallery
At the opening of Miniatures in March 2012, Ray Parry is pictured with his
'Visions Of Being Small' series (mixed media on canvas board) - No 1 above
'Visions Of Being Small 4'
'Visions Of Being Small 2'
'Visions Of Being Small 5'
'Visions Of Being Small 3'
'What I Am'
by Ray Parry
I paint what I am, day to day
I draw what I see to be happy
What I am, beyond feeling and beyond mind
And the colours become real beyond the mind
Dance free, in the spirit
And the sun will shine
And you will glow,
Like a fire in the wintertime
I write what I am and the things around me
I sing songs about me, about you and I and us
Well I am what I am
And the days are all clear because I draw what I am
Well I am what I am
I am happy in it! I am happy in it!
from Place February 2012
'Ray's Place'
Tex-card
The Serpentine Community Gallery's
CreativExchange @ Lismore Show '11
proved to be a very inspiring place for Ray Parry who demonstrated an impressive array of skills
as he created (and marketed) a range of much admired artwork.
Ray and Corinne Batt-Rawden
display some the works he made and sold
from the 20th to the 22nd October.
Ray Parry and his artwork,
'Dreaming of Flowers'
Oil on recycled canvas,
at the opening of Trash - October 2011
'Standing Stones'
'What I Am'
'Art-Ist Hands'
from Wild Dreams September 2011
'Ray of Light'
Portrait of Ray Parry by Peter Lehner
from Salon des Refuses
on view from 29th April to 3rd June 2011
Ray takes the opportunity to get creative during one of the workshops
held by Claire Chatfield during her Trash and Treasure exhibition
March 2011
'Freedom of Trees'
'Dreaming of Trees'
from Tree
February/March 2011
In between the wood chop events and his choir performances, Ray enjoyed the opportunity
to share his artistic talents - painting, mixed media works and poetry - morning, noon and night
at the Serpentine Community Gallery's
Creative Exchange @ Lismore Show, 21st to 23rd October 2010.
Ray (purple scarf 2nd from right) and his fellow choir members assemble
at the Artcafe prior to performing. Ray becomes art - 'Ray at Work' by Sue Alford.
'Out Of My Mind'
Acrylic on board
'Sea of Dreams'
Acrylic on board
from Don't go all Mary Poppins on Us Now!
September/October 2010
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