Gabrielle Pool, Peek Gallery artist makes waves at Byron Bay

We offer two artworks for rental or purchase or exhibitions from accomplished artist Gabrielle Pool

1. Rain Flung Mountains
2. Who’s There?

Rain Flung Mountains by Gabrielle Pool (2019)
Oil and 24-carat gold leaf on canvas
150cm x 150cm
Price: POA
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Who’s There? by Gabrielle Pool (2019)
Size: 200 cm x 100 cm
Media: Oil on Canvas
Price: POA

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Gabrielle Pool artist

Salient Points:

• Over the last 20 years leading contemporary artist Gabrielle Pool has exhibited in over 30 domestic and international solo and group exhibitions.
• She was a 2011 Finalist in the prestigious national Sulman Art Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, previous winners include Brett Whiteley, John Olsen and Tim Storrier.
• 2007 Finalist Mosman Art Prize, which is the longest running municipal art prize in Australia.
• Top price paid by a private collector for a single artwork is $100,000.00 and a current Auction Record of $60,000.
• In 2005 Gabrielle was invited by Nelson Mandela to travel to Africa to collaborate in the production of the Unity Series.
• Included in many important domestic and overseas private and corporate collections.

Gabrielle Pool, artist biography:

New Zealand artist, Gabrielle Pool was born in 1976 and has been exhibiting since 1993. Her paintings and mixed media works have been exhibited in solo and group shows in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, China, U.S.A, The United Kingdom, Greece, The Bahamas, Germany Hungary The Netherlands, Sweden. and Italy.

Partly schooled in Japan, Gabrielle’s early inspiration from her teacher, Mori Sensei led to a powerful oriental influence, with her first solo exhibition in Chiba-Ken at the age of 16.

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.

In 2005 Gabrielle was invited by Nelson Mandela to travel to Africa to collaborate in the production of the Unity Series, alongside 20 other leading international artists.

The works depicted the five phases of Mandela’s life, culminating in his vision for the future, launched at the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland in the same year.

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

The Unity Series:

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician Nelson Mandela and in honour of the beloved leader’s milestone birthday, House of Mandela, a company started by his daughter and granddaughter, revealed a series of previously unseen drawings by Mandela.

“These sketches are not so much about my life as they are about my own country”. Mandela once said of his artworks, which he began making after his retirement from the presidency in 1999, in part as a way of making sense of his historic life.

“I hope that it will give you as much pleasure as I have had, in creating these images,” he told his viewers. The ‘Homeland’ collection was inspired by his love for the peace and tranquillity of Qunu, his spiritual home.

He documented his life’s journey in a series of simple drawings called the “Struggles” series, which saw each stage of Mandela’s life elegantly reduced to a sequence of evocative hand gestures.

A clenched fist, recalling his revolutionary activities; two fists in handcuffs, representing his long imprisonment; the shackles breaking, to show his release; one person’s hand grasping another, for unity; and a child’s hand in his, setting forth into a better future.

At the same time, a series of works was also presented titled ‘Unity’ that were inspired by the ‘Struggles’ drawings.

The works were created by Gabrielle alongside 38 other artists that Mandela personally invited to artistically respond to his “Struggles” series in 2003 and 2004.

Read the full story here: Nelson Mandela Was an Artist, Too.

Suspirium Series:

In 2019, Gabrielle Pool produced a body of work which was exhibited with Art Index, named Suspirium. The title refers to the expiration of arborescent morning mist- and as Gabrielle explains- she sees the morning mist as the very “breath” of trees.

Described by many leading market figures as ‘the best work Gabrielle has ever produced’.

Gabrielle imaged her former home in Nana Glen in Northern NSW and perfectly encapsulated the mood and spirit of the property and land as if you were wandering amongst the trees and through the fields.

To view a speech from the CEO of Oasis Africa and a commonwealth valuer on Gabrielle, her journey and her moving story, please click here: Suspirium Speeches.

Gabrielle Pool Art Market Analysis

Gabrielle’s paintings have shown a progressive rise in their retail value over the last 15 years. To date her top price (which was paid by a private collector) for a single artwork is $100,000.00.

She has also sold her works at $60,000 at an international auction conducted by a well-known fine art auctioneers, for the charity Oasis Africa.

Currently works of 180 x 120cm from her Indigenous series paintings retail for $28,000.00 while her top auction price domestically is also $28,000.00 for a large work sized at 180 x 120 cm.

Other prices realised at these auctions have regularly sold for $22,000.00 for large works, $10-15,000.00 for medium sizes and multiple auction sales of her smaller works and work on paper.

With the international market being a clear focus for Gabrielle coupled with her strong domestic following and critical acclaim the potential upside for her paintings for the next five to ten years looks exceptionally strong.

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