Gillian Appleby - Artist Profile

New Zealand artist…
Oil on board and illustration.

Lived in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.Part time art study in London through College of Fashion and Central Saint Martins.
A graduate of Ideas School (EIT Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand) in 2014.

Body of work stems from the photograph and departs into mixtures of fact and fiction.

Ongoing work seeking to create tensions between illustrative and material investigations around the figure, identity using photographs sourced from everyday.

Works can involve the photograph as the starting point..but more often….the arrival can be a distant departure from this. More often the works are from fresh air.
Lives in Auckland……leaving soon.

Showing work at: Tennyson Gallery, Napier. Red Peach Gallery, Ahuriri, Napier, New Zealand.
Exhibited at: East 2016, (Hawke’s Bay) and Molly Morpeth 2017 and 2015.