Gabriel Di Mauro

Since completing my BA in Fine Art Painting at the University of Brighton in 2018 I have moved my practice back to my home town of Manchester. In my practice, I explore interactions between matter, light, space and vision. With my paintings, I attempt to achieve a spatial recession through the layering of discrete applications of translucent interference acrylic paint. While typical pigment has a one-dimensional interaction with light, absorbing a majority of the spectrum and reflecting the colour that you see, interference ‘pigment’ is considered to have a three-dimensional interaction. When light strikes this paint, it is refracted, reflected and scattered.
I consider these paintings as presenting the transition between the micro and macro. I find it fascinating how a thin matrix of titanium dioxide coated mica fragments, no thicker two microns and up to ninety microns in diameter, interacts with light to produce such a lustrous surface at the human scale. My most recent work has been inspired by the regular geometric patterns produced by the atomic structures of various compounds. Due to recent developments in microscopy we are now able to produce high resolution imagery of these structures in labs such as SuperSTEM in Daresbur...

BA Fine Art Painting - University of Brighton 2015-2018
University of the Arts London (UAL) Foundation Diploma in Art & Design - Stockport College 2014-2015

Greater Manchester Art Prize, 6th June - 6th July 2019, Bolton Museum & Art Gallery, Bolton, Greater Manchester.
BEEP Painting Biennial, 3rd August-1st September 2018, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales.
BFAP Degree show, 1st-10th June 2018, Grand Parade Campus, Brighton, Exhibitor.
Facture, 23rd Feb - 3rd March 2018, 154-155 Edward Street, Brighton, Exhibitor.
In-Between, 4th-20th Feb 2017, University Gallery, Brighton, Exhibitor and Curator