The Monro Room

May 9 – Oct 7 2022

House of St Barnabas presents #SlimeSeries by Gabriella Anouk

Gabriella Anouk is a contemporary artist creating hyperrealist artwork with a twist. After many years of drawing commissions and working in different media and methodologies, Gabriella developed her new expressive #SlimeSeries during 2021. She uses pencil techniques, which require hundreds of hours of dedicated time to complete each piece.

Gabriella also explored and developed her creativity across a number of digital platforms and is hugely influential and inspirational introducing many of her social media followers to art for the time, whilst sharing her art practice and development of her #SlimeSeries.

Gabriella is inspired by surrealist artist Salvador Dali. She particularly loves Dali’s ‘nuclear-mysticism’ phase, assimilating scientific knowledge and mysticism, his technical skill, precise craftsmanship and the striking and bizarre images in his work bordering on absurdism.

Left: Claudette Johnson, Afterbirth (1990), pastel on paper, 118 x 83cm. Image credit: Claudette Johnson and Hollybush Gardens