Gisella Stapleton

Born in Lima, Peru, Gisella Stapleton is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores female interiority, cultural memory and belonging. Working across painting, mixed media, embroidery and muralism, she examines the relationship between our inner landscapes and the natural world, reimagining inherited visual languages through contemporary figuration.

The female figure lies at the centre of Stapleton’s practice, not as portraiture, but as a vessel for interior experience. Her figures inhabit moments of contemplation, transition and self-determination, while botanical forms, birds, seeds and other elements of the natural world operate as extensions of their emotional landscapes. Through these relationships, her work considers how identity is shaped by what we inherit, the environments we inhabit and the connections we form.

Drawing on her Peruvian and Latin American heritage, Stapleton brings together geometric abstraction, colour and references to Andean textile traditions. Acrylic painting is increasingly combined with hand embroidery, recycled jute and fragments of Aguayo textile, creating layered surfaces in which painting and textile practices coexist. Rather than reproducing traditional motifs, she fragmen...

BA (Hons) of Arts. UNED, Madrid, Spain

Solo Exhibition at the Peruvian Embassy in London, 2026

Solo Exhibition at Paladar, London, February-July 2026

Art Residency and Exhibition at KEW Royal Botanical Gardens, London 2025

The Other Art Fair June-July 2023

The Other Art Fair 9-12 March 2023

ArtMotiv, Contemporary Art Room at Amano Museum. Lima, Peru. 15-23 December 2022

Polygon Exhibition, The Holy Art, 1-10 December 2022The Other Art Fair 13- 16 October 2022

Group Exhibition, The Limping Fox, Thames Ditton, 6th October - December 2022

Community mural unveiling. Celebrating Elephant, 1 Elephant Road, 24th September 2022
This is a mural I painted representing the diversity of the area, commissioned by Latin Elephant and the Council of Southwark, London

The Other Art Fair 30 - 2 July 2022

The Divine Feminine. 12-31 March

Exhibition "Utopia" exploring the relationship between nature and women. Ecofeminism Festival. 7-17 October 2021

BLAW Editions, Blaze Image Gallery, Notting Hill, BLAW Editions (Bora Latin American Women Artists Editions Project) is a collaborative project created by Bora Girls Their goal is to exhibit editions of Latin American Women artists to dialogue with the local community and to strengthen their presence in the British art market
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