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"One Eye sees the other feels" Paul Klee

 

 

 

​My Work

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Gaby Reade works in printmaking and paints in oil.

In printmaking she uses non toxic methods such as solar plate etching, embossing, monoprint and collagraph.

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Gaby's work encapsulates the natural world and the small and complex ecosystem that exist and flourish around plants and insects. Their symbiotic relationship are her focus. Highlighting and celebrating the precarious balance of nature and the beauty of patterns to be found in the world small creatures inhabit. 

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Her work has no singular narrative, but exists of multiple layers working together simultaneously.

One creative project feeds into the next, and the articulations that emerge along the way help her to make sense of her place in life.

Each new series of work poses new challenges. Medium, colour, paper and style of presentation are carefully chosen and applied. 

“What it is all about chrysalises most often while working on a project, and as it reaches a conclusion, I realise I stare at the relationship and reaction I have with the world that surrounds me.”

 

Other work includes:

Brothers Grimm Fairytales. They are as relevant today as they were many centuries ago, they are timeless reflections of basic human fears, beliefs, dreams and emotions.

In order to give justice to these tales she learned the art of bookbinding - each story is presented in hand bound books of an edition of 5.  

Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. G.K. Chesterton

 

Born in Heidelberg, Germany she immigrated to Aotearoa/New Zealand in 1986.

  

She is a member of Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand and The Critique Group Christchurch, where peer review and a supportive network amongst artists is the core principle. 

 

Group Shows - Highlights:

2023    Tupu/Growth, Eastside Gallery, Christchurch

2023    Celebration, Aratoi, Martinborough, PCANZ                          selected group show

2023    Vibrant Brilliant Women, Eastside Gallery, 

             Christchurch

2022    Borderless, Napier NZ and Brisbane Australia

2021    The Colombo, group show with the Associates

             Christchurch

2021    A Stone to Strike and a Rock to Stumble over,                      Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton

2021    Kintugi, Artists Against Slavery, Diamond Harbour

2020    The Junction, Live in Vacant Spaces, Christchurch

2019    On Our Own, Critique Group Christchurch,                          Eastside Gallery, Christchurch

2019    Reverie, Pop Up Exhibition, Winter Wander, 

            Christchurch

2019    Transience, Fo Guang Yuan Gallery, Christchurch

2019    Lyttelton Art Auction, Lyttelton

2018    Associated, COCA, Centre of Contemporary Art,

            Christchurch

2018    Small Print Exhibition, PCANZ, various venues in

            New Zealand

2018    Celebrating Women's Suffrage Movement

2018    Overwintering Project, Australia, various venues 

2018    Kaiapoi Art Show, Kaiapoi

2017    Cuban Hurrican Relief, George Fraser Gallery,

            Auckland

2017    Sanctuary, Artists against Slavery, Arts in Oxford,                Oxford

2017    Kaiapoi Art Show, Kaiapoi

2017    From the Rivers to the Shore, travelling group                      show North&South Island New Zealand

2017    Te Pataka, Gallery 50, Lyttelton (stories of Banks                 Peninsula)

2016    Kaiapoi Art Show, Kaiapoi

2016    New Zealand Art Show, Wellington

2016    Uncommon Ground, The Critique Group CHC,                    Artbox

2016:   Upfront, The Critique Group CHC, Chambers 241

2015:   Small Works, Arts In Oxford, Oxford

2015:   In Miniature, Tin Palace, Lyttelton

2015:   Hot off the Press, Arts in Oxford, Oxford

2014:   Us Now, Arts in Oxford, Oxford

2013:   Present, Tin Palace, Lyttelton

2013:   In Miniature, Tin Palace, Lyttelton

2013:   Transit of Dreams, Tin Palace, Lyttelton

2013:   Current, Arts in Oxford, Oxford

2011:   Canterbury our Place, Arts in Oxford, Oxford

2010:   Eleven, CoCA (Centre of Contemporary Art),                        Christchurch

2008:   Te Ara Whakatau (Creative Routes), finalist CoCA,               Christchurch

2006:   Looking In, Lyttelton Art Gallery

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Solo Shows:

2016:   The Frogprince, Bryce Gallery, Christchurch 

2015:   Are you sitting comfortably? Then let me begin....,                Art on the Quay, Kaiapoi

2015:   Once Upon a Time, Tin Palace, Lyttelton

2013:   Seven Virtues, Two Rivers Gallery, Cheviot

2011:   The George Hotel, Christchurch

2011:   Bread Matters, Selwyn Art Gallery, Darfield

2009:   Walter, The Penguin with a Difference, Akaroa

2009:   Memory, Silvan Gallery, Christchurch

2008:   Foundation, Lyttelton Art Gallery, Christchurch  

 

 

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