Geoff Parr (b.1933 Earlwood, NSW) is a long-time resident of Hobart. He is not only a visual artist, but an art teacher, art researcher and environmental activist. Over the period of Parr’s art practice he has worked in painting, photography and since 1995, in digital printing.

Parr’s work stretches the possibilities of surface tension created by neo-pointillist techniques. He is inspired by the patterns and forms of natural materials found in the Tasmanian bush, and his recent work has incorporated imagery sourced from the state’s widely publicised old growth forests.

Instrumental in the development of the Digital Arts Research Facility (DARF) at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Parr was also a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council grant exploring the formative pixel structures in computer generated images.
In 2008, Geoff Parr was awarded membership of the Order of Australia ‘for service to the visual arts through leadership in the development of tertiary education in Tasmania, research and advisory roles, and as an artist’.

Parr has been extensively collected throughout Australia, with the National Gallery of Australia holding a large number of Parr’s early works in their permanent collection.

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Geoff Parr’s CV