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    Gabriele Richter

    Born in Munich, Germany. For twenty-five years, Gabriele lived in China, Indonesia and Japan, working as an instructor for German as a Foreign Language, graphic designer and photographer. She had numerous solo exhibitions and publications of her work in Asia and Europe, e.g. the photo-books China 1979-1982, Kamakura: A sojourner in a Japanese Town and Frauen.
    Since 2003 she has lived in Australia on the Central Coast of NSW. After studying Fine Arts at the National Art School in Sydney, she started a new career as a painter. Her paintings were accepted several times for the Gosford Regional Gallery Art Competition, and in 2004 she won the Spikefest Art Competition with the Funniest Portrait. The St Albans Gallery showed two solo exhibitions of her paintings and drawings, entitled Japan and Beyond (2005) and Phantasma (2008).
    Under the auspices of the German Goethe-Institute in Sydney and the Central Coast Art Society she gave various workshops from 2006 to 2009.

    In her current exhibition of paintings, she has looked into Japanese culture. Her fascination with the traditional 'Butoh' style of Japanese dance is expressed in her almost Surreal series of paintings.

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    The Red Shoes
     
           
     
    		 
           
     

    Now and Then :Oil on canvas 95x65cm

    		 

    Matsuri: acrylic on canvas 92x61 cm

       

     

    		                  
      About her work the artist said: My paintings are images and reflections of my inner world seen with the minds eye. Fantasy and memories, enriched by dreams and narratives. Having been an expatriate for most of my life, has deeply imbued my work with palpable images of and experiences from far off places, both as a resident and lifelong traveller. Consequently, cultural and natural diversities seep subconsciously through my palette and metamorphoses from one cultural state, to another.
    The current body of psychoscapes is an ongoing visceral response to the slow and profound effects of constantly being a stranger in a strange land.    		        
                           
     

    Memento:acrylic on canvas153x76cm

    		  Kujukushima Butoh at Sunset SOLD Dominance :acrylic on canvas 84x95cm

     

    		 Glimpse :acrylic on panel 71x56cm   Icarus :acrylic on canvas 61 x 51 cm Bunraku :acrylic on panel SOLD To Page 2