Isabelle Gaborit

2012-01-28T02:49:00.000-08:00

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

Depth #1 of the 'Fallen ' series

2011-10-05T02:57:00.000-07:00

Painting.

2011-09-27T05:00:00.000-07:00

You and I needed to talk.

It always starts out of the darkness

Standing on opposite sides of the room

Gazing

Separated by the whiteness of the sheet.

The stillness fills the space

Paced by the oppressive echo of my racing heart.

No yet

Hold breath

Savour the fear

Await the unspoiled moment

The leap to take

The fall in the void.

Feel the serpent power rise

As I come closer

And dive

To feel whole again.

Remaining are fragments of my essence

Naked

Exposed

To your eyes.

Sticks and stones, roots and bones

2011-08-18T12:26:00.000-07:00

' underbelly' , a fanzine project for the ' collective consciousnes'exhibition

2011-08-10T12:48:00.000-07:00

Inside pages of the fanzine

As part of the creative Consciousness exhibition at the Galway Art centre, I produced a ‘fanzine’ type of magazine which was distributed as a limited edition (100) to the public during the show. All copies were in Black and white and numbered.

My ‘job’ was, as the editor of the fanzine, to gather from each of the willing artspace artists drawings, quotation, pictures, poems, any creative response they wished to have published.

It was basically an opportunity for the public to see how artists think, respond to an idea, or work within an internal process. The idea was to publish drawings, doodles, texts anything thatwe would not necessarily show to anybody, or which would be part of their practise but privately, the ‘underbelly’ of their practice or creative process .

Front and back of the fanzine

cover for lammas edition of Brigit's Fire

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Beltane 2011

Proposed samhain 2010

Lughnasadh 2010

Beltaine 2010

Imbolc 2010

2011-07-20T06:16:00.000-07:00

Domestic bliss

A Bird in a cage,

Gilded, her home a castle.

But she cannot fly.

2011-07-20T06:13:00.000-07:00

Thoughts

I have walked among the stars,
skated the surface of the sun.

Touched the coolness of the moon.

Then I held her, my hand in hers
and I flew.

Hearts racing, climbing higher
till, caught in the moment;
to tumble and fall without fear.

Landing in the soft cushion of love.

2011-07-20T06:10:00.000-07:00

Beltane

Cow garland of Kingcup flower,
bright yellow with power.

Cattle through twin fire
pass, so milk will not tire.

Shee collecting morning dew
washes her face to renew.

Sees snail track silvery white
left during the nite.

Is there a single letter?
Her lover or someone better?

2011-07-20T06:06:00.000-07:00

Eclipse

THE FIERY-RED CREATIVE SUN COLLIDED WITH

THE COOL-SILVERY TRANSFORMING MOON.

THEY BURST INTO A FLAME OF SILVER-RED

WARMING AND COOLING TO BOTH,

AND HAVING BEEN MADE WHOLE THEY WERE HAPPY.

Simon Large

First gate

2011-07-20T06:02:00.000-07:00

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

Ephemeral , definition

2011-07-19T02:39:00.000-07:00

e•phem•er•al

noun /əˈfem(ə)rəl/
adjective /əˈfem(ə)rəl/

1. Lasting for a very short time
2. Having a very short life cycle

(from Greek εφήμερος - ephemeros, literally "lasting only one day”)Ephemeral means to be transient and short lasting.

A sensation which is felt by a person for a certain period of time before needing replenishment can be referred to as ephemeral. Often happiness is described as being ephemeral, as one does not find it to be a permanent state, within the scope of human lives. There are always varying shades of happiness and disappointment.

Ephemeral can also be used as an adjective to refer to a fast-deteriorating importance or temporary nature of an object to a person. Lasting a short time.
Pertaining to individual plants, completing the life cycle (germination through death) or growth cycle in much less than one year. 2. Pertaining to plant parts, falling early or remaining functional for a relatively short time (e.g., less than a day for flower parts).

(adj.) short-lived, fleeting (She promised she’d love me forever, but her “forever” was only ephemeral: she left me after one week.)

may eve

2011-07-18T13:56:00.000-07:00

I danced the circle of fire
A dance of life for you
Embracing new life and the wonders that you bring
Within the radiance of promised growth and renewal

Within me, flames awaken
As a I call forth your glory

Blessed is your love as I lay on the morning dew
Yearning for your warmth
Allowing my soul to be moved by the rhythm of your breath

Seek for me for I am all around you

Labyrinth

2011-07-18T13:53:00.000-07:00

My love for you
Makes no sense and defies gravity
I am loosing balance
For I lost my sense of sight
I tie the golden tread around my ankle
And follow my heart
Out of the labyrinth
To find you

Ebb and flow

2011-07-18T13:50:00.000-07:00

I am the sea
Ebbing and flowing
Wrapping myself around your body
Enveloping you in my waters
You remain motionless
You hold me together.

Ephemerals #2

2011-07-18T13:39:00.001-07:00

ephemeral

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2011-07-18T13:28:00.000-07:00

Frozen beauties

2011-07-18T13:15:00.000-07:00

It all started with ' I love the colours of the Borage at this time of the year' and then it morphed into 'how can I keep the vibrant colours ...the idea was easy and came quickly: freeze them. So just like the amber preserved insects from thousands of years, I started to freeze the borage. And it looked fab. Of course it did not stop here, how about the corn flowers, the Nasturtiums, and the glorious marigold, why not preserve their glory too...So n ow the freezer is full of flowers, we are going through as quikly as we can with thee frozen food so we can leave space for the new discoveries…we are gonna need more tubs …bigger ones

Exhibition 2011

2011-07-18T08:13:00.000-07:00

COLLISION

ISABELLE GABORIT
&
SIMON LARGE

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”—Carl G. Jung
In this multi - media collaborative body of work, artist Isabelle Gaborit, and writer Simon Large are presenting people, collaboratively and individually, both poetry and visual art, intending to shift the emotional centre: thereby generating movement back and forth between two receptive fields, to encourage people to see poetry and art differently, perhaps to set them off balance. So you may move from the poem to the painting or vise versa, but also they exist autonomously from each other
Large creates texts to accompany the paintings that make the words as vital as the images. The poems are not an understanding of the respective paintings, but a reflection, a response to their vibes.
He has responded to some works that already existed, reflecting, completing and extending. In some cases the image and words existed side by side, while in some instances, the text was written, and then incorporated into the visual work as it was being made; text blending with image rather than existing beside it.

Gaborit explores liminality and threshold. Anthropologist Victor Turner has described it as ‘a place that is not a place and a time that is not a time’. In her work she is exploring this threshold place, this space in between space, neither here nor there, a space of transformation between phases of separation and re-incorporation, representing a marginal state or period of ambiguity. Gaborit’s paintings and the texts coexist, juxtapose blends that merge and emerge, knitting two worlds together.
Resolution is not being sought but rather it is perceived as a vital process when working with opposing forces.
The creative relationship between Isabelle Gaborit and Simon large started a year ago, when Simon commissioned Isabelle to provide drawings during an archaeological survey he was undertaking. It was during this period that they shared and discussed his poetry and other writing he had done, mainly for his own enjoyment. What followed was the concept of creating poetry and / or art that reflected – inspired each to the other. The poetry associated with this exhibition is his first public presentation.