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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.”

Published by lisagingles

Lisa Gingles is an artist born in Northern Ireland and based in Valencia since 1998. She graduated in fine arts from the University of Ulster in Belfast, where she began to develop her narrative style. She has exhibited nationally and internationally over the past years. Gingles´ artistic repertoire primarily consists of small drawings that are crafted using pages from old books or their covers as a foundation. Additionally, she has begun incorporating larger charcoal drawings and sculptures into her body of work. " The artist´s works conjure a bewitching world of eerie fairly tales and ancient folklore, a world where both menacing and benign forces of nature are at play" Sunday Business Post, Susan Morrel.

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