Gabrielle Pool has been producing painting and mixed media works since 1993, with over 30 solo and group exhibitions across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Her oeuvre reflects a profound engagement with diverse cultural narratives and landscapes, articulated through a sophisticated visual language.Early exposure to Eastern aesthetics profoundly shaped her formal sensibilities, informing her nuanced approach to composition and materiality.

 

Her inaugural solo exhibition in Japan at sixteen marked the commencement of a sustained investigation into cross-cultural dialogue.Central to her practice is a rigorous commitment to the preservation and interpretation of endangered cultures.

 

Since 2004, Gabrielle has undertaken extensive fieldwork among indigenous communities in Africa and Australia, integrating sacred body pigments within her practice to forge an embodied connection between ritual and contemporary form.

 

 Her work critically engages with themes of cultural displacement and the tensions wrought by globalization. In 2005, Gabrielle was invited to collaborate with an international cohort of artists on a series commemorating Nelson Mandela’s legacy, creating works that explore motifs of unity, resilience, and visionary hope.Her itinerant approach encompasses a diverse range of environments, from historic urban landscapes and remote tribal territories to the distinctive topographies of Australia. Through plein air practice, she captures the atmospheric and textural qualities of these locales, balancing gestural immediacy with contemplative rigor

 

.Gabrielle’s work has been acknowledged through finalist placements in prominent awards including the Sulman Prize (AGNSW), the Mosman Prize, and the Paddington Art Prize, and the Hawkesbury Landscape Prize.

Her work is held in significant private and corporate collections internationally.She is represented by Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney; Thom Gallery, Byron Bay; Capital Culture, UK; and online through Peek Gallery.