Gabrielle Lockwood Estrin

Biography

Gabrielle Lockwood Estrin’s practice explores the relationships between our internal and external worlds.

Often working on collaged surfaces of paper or fabrics with a previous history, she layers shapes that interact and undulate, mapping internal journeys. Folding and glueing old drawings and monoprints, creating structures on which to build the surface.

Negative and positive spaces both become active within the work, reflecting absence and presence: reliant on each other, they can only exist through an experience and memory of each other. The work gives shape to the spaces created by loss and explores what grows from and within them.

Abstraction is used to create a visual language that gives colour and form to emotions and experiences, exploring how these manifest and shift in our bodies as we navigate environments, relationships, and changes around us.