Gabrielle Pool New Zealand; Australia, b. 1976-
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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Gabrielle PoolDingo Lane at Dusk II, 2024Oil on Belgian linen170 x 100cmSold
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Gabrielle PoolBox Hill, 2023Oil on canvas50 x 50cmSold
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Gabrielle PoolCoorabell, 2023Oil on canvas50 x 50cmSold
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Gabrielle PoolHeidelberg, 2023Oil on canvas50 x 50cmSold
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Gabrielle PoolLightening Ridge (Rabbits Cinema series), 2023Oil on canvas100 x 150cmSold
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Gabrielle PoolShed on a Hill, 2023Oil on canvas100 x 150cmSold
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Gabrielle PoolYallambie, 2023Oil on canvas50 x 50cmSold
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Gabrielle PoolDingo Lane at Dusk, 2022Oil on linen101.5 x 101.5cmSold
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
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
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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