Gillian Appleby - Artist Profile

New Zealand artist.
Oil on board and canvas.
Illustration

Lived in New Zealand and UK. 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.

Her body of work stems from sourced, everyday photographs and departs into mixtures of fact and fiction.
Ongoing work seeking to create tensions between illustrative and material investigations around the figure and identity.
Works can involve the photograph as the starting point but frequently….the arrival can be a distant departure from this.
Often the works are delayed impressions through a kind of imagery absorption and osmosis.
Lives in Auckland.

Showing work at:Tennyson Gallery, Napier and Upstairs Gallery, Titirangi.
Exhibited at: Hastings City Gallery with East 2016, 2020. and recently the Mayoral Foyer Gallery in the Hastings City Council Chambers.
Exhibited in Molly Morpeth Canaday Painting and Drawing: 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021.
Solo Exhibition at The Grey Place, Ponsonby, Auckland in 2019.
Created an apple for The Big Apple Project 2022 Hawkes Bay
Ongoing artist with Corban Estate Arts Centre-Auckland 2019-2023.