SHAPE SHIFTERS

SOLO SHOW IN SPORTING CLUB RUZAFA, VALENCIA

I havent had one minute to post this year, and I had a super group shoe in Blacklight Gallery aswell, so I will have to get my $*/t together and post some new work up soon….

Meanwhile….Tomorrow I am delighted to invite you to my solo show in Sporting Club Valencia! All new work, and a mix of sculptures, drawings, and digital paintings!

I will leave you the text AI helped me write about the show (getting very modernised)

Hope to see you at the show!

Sporting Club Ruzafa, Calle Sevilla 5, Valencia

Opening night 4th of July from 7.30pm till 9.30pm

Exhibition continues till the 27th of July.

“Lisa Gingles (1974) is a Northern Irish artist based in Valencia since1998.
Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Ulster, she has participated in
many artistic residencies worldwide and has exhibited her work both in Spain
and internationally in prestigious spaces such as the MUVIM, the Centre for
Contemporary Culture of Carmen or the Ulster Museum in Belfast.

Her nomadic childhood, living with her family in different countries and
continents, hasprofoundly influenced her artistic work:on one hand, adapting
to constant change is a fundamental aspect of her creative process; on the
other,contact with diversecultures anddifferent waysof liferepresentsone
of her greatest sources of inspiration. With her work, she often explores the
threshold between reality and fantasy, also drawing inspiration from
mythological andfolkloriccharacters.

Through her drawings, paintings, and sculptures, Gingles captures the moment
of transition in which something is no longer what it was, but not yet what it
will be, thus conveying the power of the past, the melancholy of lost
childhoods, andthedarknessoftheunknown.

Her art, ultimately, reflects her own life journey: a heterogeneous path that
questions the nature of identity and transformation. In this exhibition, Gingles
explores how, by wearing animal masks, we access the primal forces that
shape our identities and how we become those creatures, embodying their
instincts,strengths, and weaknesses.
This transformation reveals the complex interplay between our true selves
and the personas we project ,confronting us with the blurred line between the
human and the animal, as well as the masks we wear in our daily lives.”

RUSSAFART 2024

I am thrilled to once again be part of the Russafart art festival this year with “La Gestoria.” This space serves as the art studio and workshop of Elsa Pérez and Maria Renedo Martos. Russafart offers a weekend brimming with events, exhibitions, and workshops in the Russafa area of Valencia. Opening night for all exhibitions is tomorrow, Fruday the 7th of June from 7pm. Looking forward to seeing you there!

“La Gestoria” Calle Luis Oliag, 6 7,8 and 9th of June 2024

“Behind the Masquerade and other Conundrums”

Graham Gingles & Lisa Gingles

9th September – 7th October 2023

Hamilton Gallery – Sligo

“The exhibition “Behind the Masquerade and Other Conundrums” by Graham Gingles and his daughter Lisa Gingles invites viewers to explore the hidden depths and complex layers of the human experience. Through the use of intricate and thought-provoking art, the father-daughter duo challenge us to look beyond the surface and to question the masks we wear and the enigmas we encounter in our daily lives. The title suggests that there is more to these works than meets the eye, and the exhibition promises to be a captivating and enlightening journey into the mysteries of the human psyche.!”

I have posted this a bit late, the show has now closed. However you can still see our work in the Hamiltin Gallery web (link below)

https://hamiltongallery.ie/masquerade-graham-lisa-gingles

Update on Exhibitions

My my, how time flys in the pandemia, or not!! I havent been posting much here, and I need to update this site desperately, but dont seem to have the time.

I have bee busy working for shows, and also my small brand “Paralle Project” has been taking up some time.

I have 3 shows in Ireland for the next few months.

Firstly one being in the Hamilton Gallery in Sligo, with 8 artists in total, and the theme is Bram Stoker, author of the famous “Dracula”. You can see the full catalogue online following this link:

https://hamiltongallery.ie/bram-stoker-selected-artists

The next show I am in, which is also a group show, with the theme “Unknown”, is in the Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast. The show will will continue threw Christmas.

These are my two oil painted pieces that are available threw the Fenderesky Gallery:

Finally, for now, I made five A5 charcoal drawings for a show coming up in Modeenaugh Studio in Fermanagh, in N.Ireland on the 5th-23rd of December 2020! It will be hosted by The Drawing box, showing work from over 50 artists. This is a touring expo of unframed works y artists created during, before & after the lockdown. The show will be travelling to: Cyprus, Lithuania, Australia, New Mexico, Netherlands & Scotland.

Below are my charcoal pieces for the show:

Thats all for now folks!

Stay Safe!

Next Exhibition…Hamilton Gallery, Sligo

I am delighted to be showing once again in the Hamilton Gallery in Sligo.

My work will be shown amongst 115 invited artists which have responded to the iconic poem “Among School Children” by W.B. Yeats.

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Among School Children opens for the summer season as part of the annual Yeats Day Celebrations in Sligo which takes place on Saturday June 13th

In keeping with Covid 19 Guidelines there will not be an official opening reception

We ask all visitors attending the gallery over the coming weeks to please observe social distancing guidelines during their visit

The full exhibition can be viewed on-line by following this link

http://www.hamiltongallery.ie/among-school-children

“Among School Children” 30cm x 30cm. Oil and Graphite on Canvas.

Continue reading “Next Exhibition…Hamilton Gallery, Sligo”

Coming up next…Art Residence in Canada, Newfoundland!

I am delighted to tell you that on the 31st of October, Me and my dad, Graham Gingles, will be flying off to Pouch Cove in Newfoundland, Canada, for a art residency for a whole month!!

The residency is run by Jaimes Baird, and we were both invited to his residencial programe for the month of November!

http://www.pouchcove.org

New York, New York!

Thanks to the Hamilton Gallery, we have the opportunity to show in NYC this month!

The exhibition features work by 129 artists, themed around the eponymous poem by W B Yeats.

I can’t tell you how thrilled and honoured I am to part of this show, and part of this Gallery, who always strives to support and show our art in every way possible!

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New Studio/Workshop/ Shop

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I am delighted to tell you that from last week I moved to a new sapce, and I am delighted to be part of this coworking space in Ruzafa, Valencia!

You will also find my brand @parallelprojectdesign and my art work in the shop this week in Calle Puerto Rico 52, from Monday to Friday, 10:00-14:00/ 17:00 or visit me in the studio/showroom by appointment only!

Co Work Shop, Calle Puerto Rico, 52, Ruzafa, Valencia.

Inicio

http://www.parallelprojectdesign.com

St Brigid´s Day!

St Brigid’s Day

Contemporary Exhibition | 90 Women Artists

The 12 Star Gallery London – January 23rd – February 1st 2019

Hamilton Gallery Sligo – 16th February – 31st March

Lisa Gingles “Luck & Irony” Pencil & Found paper on board.

The iconic early Christian symbol St Brigid has been chosen to serve as a catalyst for 90 invited Irish women artists to create an original painting for this exhibition.

Folk custom, the four seasons, women’s lives and crafts, poetry, all intersect at the 1st of February feast-day of Saint Brigid in Ireland. What is celebrated is the rebirth of the living earth; it was usual in some places to turn a sod of earth with the spade, the work of cultivation beginning again. Many customs, especially around food and cattle, are connected with the day, but the best known was the making of St Brigid’s crosses out of straw or rushes.

Women’s political journey in the last century of Irish history makes it right to choose the day for special celebration of Irish women artists and the works of art are further held in focus by their relation to the poem “St Brigid’s Day 1989” by Leland Bardwell, which positions the poet as observer, half outside the culture that she watches.

This exhibition is a dynamic and vibrant contemporary response, to the import and changing cultural significance of powerful traditional female symbolism not just in Ireland, but in all contemporary societies.

Organised by Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland, with the support of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in association with the Irish Embassy to Great Britain as part of the annual St Brigid’s Day events celebrating the creativity of women.

Exhibition tonight in Valencia

I am delighted to show tonight in an old favorite, Trentatres Cafe & Galeria in Calle Sueca 33! The opening is from 7pm-10pm and the show will continue on till the end of January!

The work I will be showing is work I have produced this year, where I have been exploring myths and facts of places and animals related to death! I also have been experimenting with new techniques in painting and drawing using oils and charcoal as a medium!

“Around the world, the crow has been associated with war, death, the Otherworld, or as a cunning trickster not to be trusted. Despite this, there has also been a grudging acknowledgement of its intelligence.

In Irish mythology, the crow is seen as a manifestation of the Morrigan (in Irish, Mór-ríoghain), meaning phantom/great Queen. She was a deity signifying ‘battle, strife and sovereignty’, a harbinger of war and death, who spoke of the battlefield as ‘her garden’.

It was said that she would often fly above a battle, her cry bringing courage and encouragement to her warriors, whilst simultaneously striking fear into the hearts of the enemy. Sometimes she would join in the battle in her human form.”

information taken from aliisaacstoryteller.com