Isabelle Gaborit

Saturday, January 28, 2012

The press release for the Beijing show in March where I have some paintings showing ..

BIGsmall: IRISH WAVE 2012
A SERIES OF VISUAL ART EVENTS CELEBRATING IRELAND’S PRESENCE IN CHINA
Irish Festival, Beijing & Shanghai March 2012

Sponsored by Culture Ireland, Crafts Council of Ireland, Embassy of Ireland, CIT, IMOCA and Irish Centre Shanghai

MISSION STATEMENT
IRISH WAVE aims to enable Beijingers and Shanghainese to gain insight into
contemporary Irish culture, to portray the diversity and global aspect of ‘Irishness’.

In order to achieve this we aim to hold a series of exhibitions & installations across a broad
spectrum of themes at venues which are accessible to a wide and diverse section of the
Beijing and Shanghai community.

IRISH WAVE can act as a partner for Irish business and institutions wishing to develop links
and markets in China and is already supported by CIT (Crawford College of Art & Design
Cork) and the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art - IMOCA, Dublin.

We want to take risks and break new ground so that Beijing will be exposed to the richness
of our cultural heritage and the cutting edge practise of our artists whose work will be
shown side by side with their Chinese peers at most of these events.

Our aim is for IRISH WAVE 2012 to be significant step towards the creation of a visually
iconic Irish identity and the promotion of women practitioners in international practise.

The 2011 film can be viewed on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoojkUgHTlM

EXHIBITIONS IN 2012
- National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing - 'Instruments of Pleasure' (11.03.12)
- With Space Gallery, 798 Beijing - 'Convergence 3' (24.03.12)
- Siemens Arts Space 798, Beijing - 'Intimate Revolution: Discourse on Disappointment'
   (08.03.12)
- Yan Chao Collection Gallery, Guomao, Beijing - 'Hidden Meanings' (09.03.12)
- Shengling Gallery, Red Town, Shanghai - 'Elements' (16.03.12)4pm
- Irish Centre Shanghai - 'Telling Tales' (16.03.12)6pm

website www.bigsmallartists.com
images of work by participating artists are currently being uploaded


Raine Hozier Byrne      Ricky van den Berg                           Gao Yuan                                             Jane Locke                      Gail Ritchie

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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.