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Isabelle
GABORIT


Isabelle Gaborit was born in La Rochelle in the south west of France but currently resides in Co. Galway. As a student she gained a foundation in sculpture, drawing and painting at l’ecole des beaux arts in Poitiers. Since 1993 she has been in Ireland playing an active part in the artistic community, where in 2006 she graduated with an honours degree in fine arts from GMIT, Galway. Since then she has been exhibiting her work extensively, among others: Enniskillen visual Arts Open; Samhlaiocht gallery, Tralee; Watergate Theatre Upstairs Gallery, Kilkenny; Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; the Mill Theatre Gallery, Dublin and the Loft Gallery, Dublin 2.

     


http://isabellegaborit.blogspot.com/

Solo Exhibitions

2008

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

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

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 Exhibitions

 2010

Couleurs d'Irlande
Artspace Group Show
Galerie du Faouedic - Lorient - France

2009

February, group show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast.

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

2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



 

 


CV
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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.

2008

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

2007

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

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

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

August, Group show, Ballylongford, co Kerry.

2006

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

August, RDS Student Art Awards, Dublin.

June, Honours Degree show at Cluan Mhuire, Galway.

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.

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

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

Memberships

Visual Artists Ireland

Artspace, Galway.

G126 

Association sans titre (France)



Aideen Barry

John Brady

Laura Brennan

Juliette De la Mer

David Finn

Simon Fleming

Kathleen Furey

Isabelle Gaborit

Ben Geoghegan

Dave Holland

Robin Jones

Valerie Joyce

Mark Kelly

Dolores Lyne

Triona Mac Giolla Ri

Louise Manifold

Paul Maye

Kevin Mooney

Megs Morley

Catherine O' Leanachain

Anne O'Byrne

Lisa Sweeney

 
 
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