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.
Group Exhibitions
(2023) Resilience, Made, Cardiff
(2023) Rising Artists, Bankside gallery, London
(2021) Hanging Around, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff
(2021) Music - The Art and Soul of Cardiff, Duke Street Arcade, Cardiff
(2016) Somewhereto_, Harbour festival, the control room, Bristol
(2015) Autobiography, Arts2life, The crazy fox, Bristol
(2014) Theatre of doors, The alchemist gallery, Cardiff
(2014) CSAD fine art degree show, Howard Gardens, Cardiff
(2014) North Bristol arts trail, HMP Bristol, Bristol
(2014) Undetermined paths, The Abacus Gallery, Cardiff
(2013) Process space, Made in Roath arts festival, Cardiff
(2012) Modern Alchemists, Capitol Arcade warehouse, Cardiff
(2012) Birth to death and hereafter, Capitol Arcade warehouse, Cardiff
(2011) Summer Show, The Poly, Falmouth
Competitions, Prizes & Awards
(2013) Derwent Art Prize, Exhibition of shortlisted artists
(2021) Jackson's painting prize, Longlisted Artist
(2023) Jacksons painting prize, shortlisted Artist