Bloodlines, an art exhibition by Isabelle Gaborit, will run at the Westside Library until Friday, 20 July.

Isabelle Gaborit was born in La Rochelle in the south west of France. As a student she gained a foundation in sculpture, drawing and painting at L'ecole des beaux-arts in Poitiers. Since coming to Ireland in 1993, she has been playing an active part in the artistic community. Her work has been part of many group shows, such as Tulca and the RDS student award show. This is her second solo show.

In this new series of paintings she is still dealing with fragments of memory and isolated thoughts like a personal jigsaw of her bloodline. Photos and stories are still present, but the subject's thoughts are gone. Through her work she is trying to piece together the web of their life.

"I make the viewer very aware of the physicality of paint, letting it drip down over the surface of the canvas, in places covering up the image beneath completely and in others letting it show through the work.

"I wanted the ink to create a sensitive web of veins, girding the surface of the painting, weaving each part together.

"Each drawing is fragmented and isolated like a lost memory, remaining is the evocative power of the fragments, incomplete, unfinished, broken or torn off, the surviving portion of what used to be," she says.

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