gaelen pinnock

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Selected Projects:

Something to Declare
Right of Admission Reserved
Fortress (Sculptures)
Fortress (Print)
Invisible Cities
Citadel typology 1
Citadel typology 2
Citadel typology 3
Dystopias
Home Series
Monoliths
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Work showing in "Rapid Response Restitution: Home Museum" at LagosPhoto Festival 2020.

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Sculpture showed at the 2020 Cape Town Art Fair in the Smith Gallery booth.

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Work showed in the Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, 2019.

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I recently completed an intervention for the Lagos

I recently completed an intervention for the LagosPhoto Festival in Nigeria. “Something to Declare” is a large sculpture that inhabits a space under Falomo bridge, linking Ikoyi and Victoria Island. For the festival, numerous artists have interpreted this years theme, "passports" by looking at a diverse range of subjects such as migration, heritage, identity, belonging etc. I've drawn on my work investigating the embodiment of various kinds of power in built and urban form, to create an intimidating structure. The work echoes recent isolationist tendencies of nation states and the bureaucracy and alienation associated with this. The sculpture envelops a mythical, fragile core, much like the constructed identities at the heart of the nation state. Made from a few hundred meters of bamboo, a local Nigerian construction material, the work has an imposing presence in the busy intersection.

I recently completed an intervention for the Lagos

I recently completed an intervention for the LagosPhoto Festival in Nigeria. “Something to Declare” is a large sculpture that inhabits a space under Falomo bridge, linking Ikoyi and Victoria Island. For the festival, numerous artists have interpreted this years theme, "passports" by looking at a diverse range of subjects such as migration, heritage, identity, belonging etc. I've drawn on my work investigating the embodiment of various kinds of power in built and urban form, to create an intimidating structure. The work echoes recent isolationist tendencies of nation states and the bureaucracy and alienation associated with this. The sculpture envelops a mythical, fragile core, much like the constructed identities at the heart of the nation state. Made from a few hundred meters of bamboo, a local Nigerian construction material, the work has an imposing presence in the busy intersection.

I recently completed an intervention for the Lagos

I recently completed an intervention for the LagosPhoto Festival in Nigeria. “Something to Declare” is a large sculpture that inhabits a space under Falomo bridge, linking Ikoyi and Victoria Island. For the festival, numerous artists have interpreted this years theme, "passports" by looking at a diverse range of subjects such as migration, heritage, identity, belonging etc. I've drawn on my work investigating the embodiment of various kinds of power in built and urban form, to create an intimidating structure. The work echoes recent isolationist tendencies of nation states and the bureaucracy and alienation associated with this. The sculpture envelops a mythical, fragile core, much like the constructed identities at the heart of the nation state. Made from a few hundred meters of bamboo, a local Nigerian construction material, the work has an imposing presence in the busy intersection.

Work in progress, part of a series called "Right o

Work in progress, part of a series called "Right of Admission Reserved" looking at the structural components of division in South African cities.

My studio is a haven... a space where my inner wor

My studio is a haven... a space where my inner world can find freedom. Sometimes it feels like it belongs to a better version of myself. This pushes me to keep up the fight and not disappear into the daily rhythm of merely making ends meet.

My studio is a haven... a space where my inner wor

My studio is a haven... a space where my inner world can find freedom. Sometimes it feels like it belongs to a better version of myself. This pushes me to keep up the fight and not disappear into the daily rhythm of merely making ends meet.

Work in progress, part of a series called "Right o

Work in progress, part of a series called "Right of Admission Reserved" looking at the structural components of division in South African cities.

Ideas for "Armilla"

Ideas for "Armilla"

"Maurilia" included in Antilia Gallery's "Mirabili

"Maurilia" included in Antilia Gallery's "Mirabilia" exhibition in Bitonto, Italy: 55 interpretations of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. (Steel and paint)

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Archived Projects:

Independence House
XYZ
Remnants
Recollection Mislaid
Artifacts
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