Gabriela Szulman
Studio #6 - Empress Mews. This studio can be visited safely without the requirement to book in advance.
Artist Bio
Gabriela is a printmaker and mixed-media artist whose work features layered images coupled with a fair amount of bright colour and surface decoration.
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Artist Statement
Gabriela grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but South London has been her home for many years now. She took her first degree in ceramics at Camberwell College of Art in the early 90s and after graduation ran a ceramics studio for twelve years, supplying a number of galleries across the UK and also selling internationally. Later on she moved away from clay to explore working on paper and canvas, which led to an MA in studio printmaking from The University of Brighton in 2007.
The layering of found imagery and memorabilia runs across all her creations, whether they be mixed media works on canvas, collages, greeting card designs, or decorative objects. Her work draws on memory, nostalgia and the reassembly of found images, and she creates pictures by blending painting and collage onto paper, canvas and the surfaces of found objects.
Gabriela’s creative inspiration comes from her growing archive of ephemera, which includes photograph albums, technical manuals, illustrated dictionaries, vintage documents, her grandmother’s fashion magazines, knitting pattern books and scraps of writing among other things.
In addition to making her own work, Gabriela teaches collage and decoupage techniques from her studio and other locations including online.
Artist CV
2015-19
Dulwich Open House, London
Camberwell Arts Open Studios, London
2014
Memoria Armenia Viva (Solo-show) - Sivori Museum, Buenos Aires
2013
King’s 100 Artworks - KCH, London
Drawing Inspiration (Joint-show) - Orso Major Gallery, London
Lacuna Art Prize Exhibition - ArtLacuna Space, London
2012
Pasion por la memoria (Solo-show) - Hoy por el Arte Gallery, Buenos Aires
2009 Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries, London
