JOSEPH GABRIELS
**Joseph Gabriel **(b. 1989, Manila; lives and works in London) is an artist working across drawing, sculpture and installation. His works examine notions of land, origin, memory and sense of place. He explores a visual language that seeks to articulate the vestigial and transformative qualities of ceramics—one which lends itself as a tactile material and the other, as intermediary to the intangible. His body of work inspects the point of tangency between transitional states, the fragmentary and the residual as emblematic responses to our world in constant flux.
Gabriel obtained an MA in Ceramics and Glass in 2019 from the Royal College of Art, where he was a recipient of the RCA Fund International Scholarship. He was an artist fellow at Guttenberg Arts in 2017, artist-in-residence at Koganecho Bazaar in 2015 and was the Philippine delegate for Visual Arts at the 2013 ASEAN Youth Camp in Singapore. He earned a BFA in Painting from the University of the Philippines, Diliman in 2013 and studied ceramics as an exchange scholar at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 2011 and 2012.
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