Dr Maggie Parker

Lecturer: Digital Artist: Computer Game Developer

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***News***
August 2011 - An International exhibition is planned to take place in South Korea with a reciprocal 'swop' curated by Maggie.  This will constitute small drawing works on paper.

***News***
'Alchemy'
In response to a poem by James Oates, Maggie and calligrapher Hazel Abbott produced a series of art-pieces, both 2d and 3d, to be shown in a forthcoming exhibition at the Lamplight Gallery in Stanley in July.

ScMARTiii
Python Gallery hosted School of Computing staff creative work in February -March 2011
Jointly curated by Maggie Parker and Peter Hesleton, the exhibition showed the art-practice research by lecturers and ancillary staff, was viewed by many people from both the University and the outside community and received good reviews from the press.

edan@Brussels
3rd floor ASP building, from 11 to 15 October 2010, in Brussels
Mr Stephen Hughes, MEP, has requested edan to exhibit at the European Parliament Building, in Brussels.  Curated and organised by Maggie, this took place in the 3rd floor ASP building, from 11th - 15th October, 2010.



March 2010
'Coast NEWS'
The North-East of England 'swopped' galleries with the South-West coast of England.  edan and St Ives artists completed a reciprocal art-swop.  St Ives artists were shown the the Courtyard, Seaham and edan artists were shown in St Ives harbour front Art Gallery.  The private views happened simultaneously and the shows were hugely successful. 

December 2009
ScMART Exhibition

Work shown here is some of my 3d printing and animation work translated into a real world 3d effigys.

'ScMART' was a project conceived to showcase staff art-practice and research projects by staff employed in the School of Computing. 

Due to the success of this exhibition, School of Computing lecturers and ancillary staff showed their work at the Python Gallery, Middlesbrough in February 2010.  The next exhibition will be January 2011 to tie-in with Animex, the hugely successful animation festival organised by the School of Computing and to be held in Teesside University in 2011 in February 7th - 11th.



Second Life: Inserting student artwork into 3D Web site

Creating a gallery in the virtual world 'Second Life' to showcase undergraduate and graduate work has now been completed.  You can find the gallery in co-ordinates 70,230,70 and also teleport to it from co-ordinates 78,68,23 by the entrance to 'Teeslife' and also 69,216,23 near the Bayeaux Tapestry by using 'Touch' and 'Teleport' commands into the gallery via the info boards.
 'Digital Dreams' project
2009

In conjunction with Easington District County Council, this project was teaching digital art to year 09 - 14 pupils at secondary schools in the East Durham area.

An exhibition of this work took place at edan's premises, The Courtyard [behind the Pan Din Thai Restaurant in Seaham, Durham] in March/April.  John Cummings, MP of Easington at the time, officially opened the exhibition and spoke about the vibrant culture and art-scene in the North-East.