Isabelle Gaborit: First gate

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

First gate

FIRST GATE

Secure......
Then changes begin,
Away I move from what I know.
Toward feelings unknown,
Yet there is no choice but follow.
And I was spun,
Never losing my connection
A thread
A cocoon wrapped in threads of silk, enclosing, protecting-----stillness.
Morphed, the cocoon splits, a butterfly emerges:
Taking wing.

Simon Large

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artist statement

In my work I am dealing with fragments of memory and isolated thoughts like a personal jigsaw. The end effect plays on different layers, planes or levels. The eye of the viewer is drawn into the painting, into details, floating, drifting across the ethereal outlines of fragments of a story. Structures build on top of one another in layers creating veils. I mainly explore the concept of fragmentation of time over one another, and my body of work is an attempt to remember and look underneath, to weave these pieces together, in other words, to unwrap the numerous layers and to offer the viewer a space in between, a void in the midst of reality and memory.
I use the layering of mixed media, collage and paint to explore a personal lore, a viewable expression of the many facets of my thoughts. .I combine and overlap found objects and drawings I created, leaving them exposed but also concealed within the work.
Veils become translucent and reveal hints of past forms, layers of textured structures, and colour. Each drawing is fragmented and isolated like a lost memory. Remaining are fragments, incomplete, unfinished, broken or torn off, the extant scrap of what was once familiar.

Media

I work within the medium of paint and mixed media,photography,digital prints, collage of found objects, ink, watercolours, acrylic, pastels, and pencil drawings.

solo exhibitions

2011, April, Collision, collaborative show with poet, Simon large

2010, November, group show, the empress Gallery, Belfast

2010 September, solo show, Tipperary Excel Arts Centre, Tipperary, co. Tipperary.

2009 May- July, solo show at the Ivy House, Drumcondra, Dublin.

2009 April, solo show, Iontas Theatre, Castleblayney.

2008 1-31 Octobre: solo show, somewhere in between, Town Hall theatre gallery, Galway.

2008 4-26 Sept: solo show, Samhlaiocht Gallery, Tralee.

2008 25 April – 6 June, Solo show, Anima Locus,curated by Mary Butler, Kilkenny Art Officer ,Watergate Theatre Upstairs Gallery, Kilkenny.

2007, July, solo exhibition, Bloodlines, Westside Library, Galway.

2003 July –august, solo exhibition tangible vision, Brennans’ yard Hotel, Galway. Opened by James C. Harold, City Arts Officer.

Group shows

2011, group show, 25 years of artspace, Galway arts centre, Galway

2011 conflict, Iontas Arts centre Castleblayney

2010 September, Seen/unseen, group show at John Mc Ging's, High Street , part of Blink Visual Art , Westport arts Festival

2010 May, Artspace Collective at Galerie du Faouëdic, Lorient, France

2010 group show, Sol Art Gallery, Athenry

2009 sept, Artspace studios Gallery, members group show.

2009 August, Arts trails, Tuam Arts festival, Co. Galway.

2009 August, Group show, Dunamaise Arts centre, Portlaise, Co. Lais

2009 February, group show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast.

2009 January, The 2nd Annual 126 Members' Show, G126 gallery, Galway.

2008 3^rd December-24^th January, Christmas group show, the Source Arts Centre, Thurles.

2008 4^th December-21^st December, Nature Nurture, Christmas group show, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, co. Clare.

2008 25 Sept: Enniskillen visual Arts Open, Enniskillen, Fermanagh.

2008 16-31 August: duo show with Cassandra Dorer, Anton’s café and art gallery, Galway.

2008 May, is mise Ireland, seeing Hibernia, curated by411 Gallery, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Beijing, China.

2008 march is mise Ireland, seeing Hibernia, curated by411 Gallery, Shanghai, China, opened by Mr Dick rocheT.D. , Minister for European Affairs.

2008 23 April-28 April, group show, Ladyfest, Cork.

2008 24 April- 27 April, group show, Spring Awakening, Solstice Art group, curated by Maeve Mulrennan, Galway Art centre visual art officer, Headford.

2008, February, Duo show, The Mill Theatre Gallery, Dundrum, Dublin 14.

2007, December, Christmas exhibition of selected gallery artists, The Loft Gallery, Dublin 2.

2007, October, group show, RioArt Gallery, Newbridge, Co. Kildare.

2007, September –October,’ autumn at the Loft’, an exhibition by selected gallery artists, The Loft Gallery, Dublin 2.

2007, August, Group show, Ballylongford, co Kerry.

2006, Sept – November, work selected for the RDS Student Art Awards travelling exhibition.

2006 August, RDS Student Art Awards, Dublin.

2006, June, Honours Degree show at Cluan Mhuire, Galway.

2006 April –May, Document, collaborations between writers from NUI, Galway and artists from GMIT, National University of Ireland, Galway.

2005 October-November, Interim, group exhibition part of Tulca 2005, Galway.

2005 June –July, Document, collaboration between poets from NUI, Galway and artists from GMIT, National University of Ireland, and Galway.

2005 May, End of Diploma year exhibition in Cluan Mhuire, Galway.