Gabrielle Pool New Zealand; Australia, b. 1976-

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Dingo Lane at Dusk II, 2024
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Gabrielle Pool (b. 1976 in New Zealand) is an established artist recognised as much for her innovative painting as for her explorative spirit. Originally from New Zealand, she has traveled extensively and honed her inventive skills in some of the most eclectic locations on the planet. From an early mentorship in Japan, Pool has learned new methods at their creative source – from traditional techniques in the Chinese Guilin mountains, to rough-hewn innovation on the remote banks of Southern Ethiopia’s slow moving Omo River. Pool has been exhibiting globally since 1993. In 2004 she was invited by Nelson Mandela to collaborate in the 2004 Unity Series. A finalist in the Sir John Sulman Prize, Mosman Art Prize and Paddington Art Prize, she is best known for her large-scale commissions now held in private and public collections. Pool’s work has also been featured by various media outlets including TVNZ and National Geographic.  Gabrielle has held 30 solo shows over the past 26 years and has had numerous invitations to exhibit in selected group exhibitions.  

 

In 2004 Gabrielle began to record several of the world's vanishing tribes - the Hamer Tribe in Ethiopia, the Maasai of Kenya, and in 2010, the Indigenous women artists of Utopia in Australia's Northern Territory.  Gabrielle has immersed herself in tribal life, often using sacred body paint pigments within her work.  "My painting has always been driven by a desire to preserve and record the history of ancient people and their environments, in a world that seems to be trying its very best to eradicate them and 'civilize' them."

 

Gabrielle’s concerns have included imaging expeditions to Amman Jordan, Budapest Hungary, and the exquisite country around her home and studio in  Northern NSW.

 “Now I am celebrating this vast country of Australia and the exquisitely beautiful shire around my home.  Painting the landscape with an echo of the people who have populated and farmed it, I would like to pay tribute to this land and to the ancestors and forefathers who developed it”.

 

Her practice has long been enriched by her itinerant existence, and thus she has set out on a painting journey around Australia in 2024, and is currently imaging the thickly wooded country around Daylesford in regional Victoria.

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Biography
Gabrielle Pool

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 'Suspirium' Art Index, BCFA, Sydney, Australia

          'Studio Sale' with Brenda Colaha Fine Art, The Rocks, Sydney

2017  'Halcyon' Two Tails Winery Nana Glen, NSW AUS

2015 Capital Culture Gallery, UK
2014  Art Auction for Charity Oasis Africa Australia, Syd.
2013  Studio Exhibition, Sydney, Australia
2013  Muk Muk Fine Art Gallery, Alice Springs + Darwin, Australia
2012  The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, CA, USA
2011  Dreamings, Gallery McCollum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA
2010  Utopia 26 S 148 E, Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney, Australia
           Nurybah Gallery, Byron Bay, Australia
           Fat Prophets, Sydney, Australia
2009  Waterbar, Blue Hotel, Woolloomooloo, Australia
2008  Amisfield Winery, Queenstown, New Zealand
           The Ivy, Sydney Australia
2007  Bayswater Brasserie, Sydney, Australia
           Griffith Cottage Gallery, Griffith, Australia
           M1NT, Hong Kong
2006  Square 1 Gallery, London, UK
2005  Touch of Mandela Gallery Sydney, Australia
           Griffith Cottage Gallery, Griffith, Australia
2004  Touch of Mandela Gallery, Sydney, Australia
           Griffith Cottage Gallery, Griffith, Australia
2003  Kamel, Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia
2002  Applause Art Gallery, South Melbourne, Australia
           Pomegranate, South Melbourne, Australia
2001  Kamel, Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia
1998  Tap Gallery, Sydney, Australia
           Luigi Bros, Sydney, Australia
1996  Fat Dog Gallery, Rotorua, New Zealand
           Freos, Rotorua, New Zealand
           Astrolabe, Taupo, New Zealand
           Replete, Taupo New Zealand
1995  Rotorua Art and History Museum, Rotorua, New Zealand
1994  Freos, Rotorua, New Zealand
           La Cucina, Auckland, New Zealand
1993  Mobara City Council Gallery, Japan

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023  'Spirit of Place' Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney  Australia
2023  ’Nest’ Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney Australia 
2023   'Of This Century' Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney, Australia 
2022   'Concrete Candy' Group Exhibition, Peek Gallery, Byron Bay, Australia

2021   Finalist, Paddington Art Prize 2021, Defiance Gallery, Paddington, Australia

2021   'East of Everywhere' Group Exhibition, Peek Gallery, Byron Bay, Australia

2020   Finalist, Paddington Art Prize 2020, Defiance Gallery, Paddington, Australia

2019   Brody 10 year Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary

2018  20/20 Vision 20 years 20 women, Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney

          Capital Culture Gallery Official Opening, Coltishall Norfolk Broads UK

          Capital Culture Gallery AAF Hamburg Germany
          Capital Culture Gallery AAF Milan Italy

          Capital Culture Gallery AAF Stockholm SWE

          Capital Culture Gallery AAF Hampstead, London UK
          Capital Culture Gallery Art Fair East Norwich, UK

2017 Last Looks, Brody Studios Budapest, Hungary

          Capital Culture Gallery AAF New York, New York USA

          Capital Culture Gallery AAF Battersea Park, London
          Capital Culture Gallery AAF Hampstead, London
          Capital Culture Gallery Art Fair East Norwich, UK

2016 Capital Culture Gallery AAF Battersea Park, London
          Capital Culture Gallery AAF Hampstead, London

          Capital Culture Gallery AAF Stockholm SWE
2015 Capital Culture Gallery AAF Battersea Park, London
          Capital Culture Gallery AAF Hampstead, London
          Capital Culture Gallery Liverpool Contemporary Art Fair
2014 Capital Culture Gallery, AAF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
          Capital Culture Gallery, AAF, Hamburg, Germany
          Capital Culture Gallery, AAF, Hampstead Heath, London, UK
          Capital Culture Gallery, AAF, Battersea Park, London, UK
2013 Oasis Africa Australia, Charity Auction, Sydney, Australia
2011 'Frost ', The Happening Gallery, Venice, CA, USA
           'True Love', The Happening Gallery, Venice, CA, USA
           'Melange 70', Gallery 6, Islamabad, Pakistan
           'A Painted Odyssey', Capital Culture, UK
           'Sulman Prize', Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
           'Haunt', The Happening Gallery, Venice, CA, USA
           'Summer Days', Genesis Gallery, Athens, Greece
           'Understanding Country', Francis Keevil Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010  Genesis Gallery, Athens, Greece
2007  Cuban Cultural Festival, Square1 Gallery, London, UK
           Art International, Guaranty Trust Bank, Lyford Manor, Nassau, Bahamas
           International Womans Day, Cannizaro House, London, UK
           International Womans Day, Square 1 Gallery, London, UK
2006   Art International, Guaranty Trust Bank, Lyford manor, Nassau, Bahamas
2004  Collectors Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Brenda Colahan Fine Art,  Sydney,            Australia
1999  French Chamber of Commerce- 100 Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1998  Tap Gallery, Sydney, Australia
           Luigi Bros, Sydney, Australia
1996  Fat Dog Gallery, Rotorua, New Zealand
           Freos, Rotorua, New Zealand
           Astrolabe, Taupo, New Zealand
           Replete, Taupo New Zealand
           1995 Rotorua Art and History Museum, Rotorua, New Zealand

 

AWARDS

2023  Finalist, Hawkesbury Art Prize, Purple Noon Gallery, NSW, Australia 
2021   Finalist, Paddington Art Prize 2021, Defiance Gallery, Paddington, Australia

2020   Finalist, Paddington Art Prize 2020, Defiance Gallery, Paddington, Australia

2011  Finalist Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, sydney, Australia
2007  Finalist Mosman prize, Sydney, Australia
1999  Selected NSW Art Gallery, French Chamber of Commerce 100 Years,            Australia
1995  Selected RAHM Emerging Young Artists Exhibition, Rotorua, New Zealand
1993  Finalist Chiba-Ken regional Art Competition, Japan

 

COLLECTIONS

Bond University Collection

Princess Guirey
Princess Borghese
Schroder Equities
First Folio
Van Eyk
VM Ware
The Thought Group
HA Centurion Enterprises
Equity Partners
Schiavi
Nanyang Venture Capital
Sugar International
Conexus Financial
Fat Prophets

Brody House Collection

RZA

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