GALINA MUNROE

The British-French artist Galina Munroe (born in 1993), lives and works in Norwich, UK.                                                                                                                           

She obtained her BA in Fine Arts from Beaux Arts, EESAB in Rennes, France in 2014, and her MA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins University of Arts in London in 2016. 

Her recognizable visual style is the result of a simplistic formal vocabulary of bright colors and layers of oil paint and fabric collage on canvas. 

“I don’t approach new work with pre-meditated sketches or ideas for a motif, instead I take cues from the materials I work with, such as a pre-existing fold or smudge on the canvas”. 

This fluid and spontaneous approach is reflected in the impression of freshness of her paintings, encouraging viewers to direct their attention inwards.

Munroe has developed a language of visual phrases that frequently recur; suggestions of voluminous flowers, plants, fruits, all elements that recollect the rural countryside, the artist’s primary working environment.

Solo shows: Love Me Till I Am Me Again, LOTTE Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, 2024; Bruised Dawn, JARILAGER Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 2023; Tending to the Tender Things, Piermarq, Sydney, Australia, 2022; Things that make you want to stay, COUNTY, USA, 2022; The King of Carrot Flowers, UNION Gallery, London, UK, 2022; The Silence Tasters, Piermarq, Sydney, Australia, 2021;To emerge in a different place, Piermarq, Sydney, Australia, 2020; Orville, Piermarq Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2019. 

Group shows: Piermarq at Zona MACO 2023, Piermarq, MX, 2023; Art Busan, Busan, JARILAGER Gallery, South Korea, 2023; LAF, UNION Gallery, London, UK, 2023; Weeds Won’t Wither, JARILAGER Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 2022; Still Standing, UNION Gallery, London, UK, 2022; Dream Paper, a group show curated by Jérémie Masurel, Galerie Slika, France, 2022; PINK, Piermarq, Sydney, Australia, 2022; Dandelion, Delphian Gallery, UK, 2021; 4 Year Anniversary, Delphian Gallery, UK, 2021; NBB x Zora Auguste, NBB Dallery, Berlin, Germany, 2021; Puzzle, Roman Sviridov Gallery, Italy, 2021; Palma Art Fair, Fran Reus Gallery, Majorca, Spain, 2021; Brindar con extraños, group, Galeria Trinta, Spain, 2021; Soothe, Online group exhibition curated by Kristin Texeira, 2020; Work on paper, Piermarq, Sydney, Australia, 2020; Sensations, Auc Art Auction,Online, 2020; TWENTYFOUR, Bricks Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019; Spring Patterns, Piermarq, Sydney, Australia, 2019.