Gillian Lawler (b.1977) is originally from Co. Kildare but is now living in Dublin. She received a BA in Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design in 2000. She has won numerous prestigious awards, has had over 17 solo exhibitions throughout Ireland and has had international exhibitions in North America, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Croatia, Poland, Spain, Holland and Italy. Gillian Lawler’s artistic practice revolves around landscape and memory, delving into the interplay between reality and imagination. She draws inspiration from her own fallible recollections of human habitats, desolate wilderness, and abandoned settlements. Through an amalgamation of references, she constructs a version of reality that exists in her mind rather than in actuality. These places embody a state of flux, ultimately presenting a perspective of nature that is reconstructed as a series of indefinite structures. Gillian's concepts are rooted in the notions of boundaries, edges, transitions, and transformations. Often, the canvas is divided into distinct territories defined by boundary lines, where forms intersect, undergo metamorphosis, dissolve, disperse, or assimilate.
Gillian Lawler
