Gabrielle J Moore

Degree: Fine Art BA (Hons)
University: Cardiff School of Art and design
Graduation Year: 2014

New Blood Art Commentary

Gabrielle J Moore’s paintings carry a rare, complete vision, one that moves instinctively between materiality and subject, between the seen and the unseen. Narrative doesn’t simply thread through her work - it hums, tilts, surfaces. Scenes form around found images and lived experience, charged with a quiet surrealism that is both comic and unsettling.

This is a practice alive with its own frequencies: psychic rituals, social commentary, dreamscapes. The work resists single interpretation, offering instead a layered, intuitive world where story, memory, and the unconscious meet. Moore is not borrowing from the world, she is building one of her own.

Artist Statement

I work with multiple different supports for my paintings playing with the way paint interacts with an untraditional surface. Much of my landscape based work focuses on a pairing down of the marks to recreate the emotion of the moment, these are often created in my studio from quick sketches made on hikes.

My other key interest in my practice is a theatrical narrative or emerging story within an image. I am interested in imagery that rests between the comical and unnerving, the film-like and the real. Often this includes my interest in true crime and occultist imagery and the poignancy and increased narrative they acquire through painting. However some of my work of travel and people from my own life also leans over into this category.