Patricia Gurgel-Segrillo is delighted to announce that the
Art in the Park - Cork City
artists in residence at The Lord Mayor's Pavilion, Fitzgerald Park, Cork City,
alongside illustrator and author Alan Corbett, it will officially open on the 1st of July 2012.
This beautiful Arts and Crafts style building will be their basis where they will create art
inspired by the park, as well as invite other Cork City artists for collaborations/exhibitions
and offer courses/workshops and arts facilitation sessions.

More information soon at: Art in the Park - Cork City Blog

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Patricia Gurgel-Segrillo is pleased to announce that in June her figurative drawings series
will be exhibited at Twenty Twenty Art Gallery, North Mall, Cork City.

P Gurgel-Segrillo's Tradigital Art series #1 is featured on HESA Inprint

“I Have The Right to Freedom”

Tradigital art series #1 was influenced by the great photojournalism masters and
their humanity and by the Film Noir directors with their gloomy grays and blacks and whites,
with their dark and inhumane side of human nature, emphasizing the brutal,
unhealthy, shadowy and dark side of the human experience.

And it was inspired by Cordel Literature: the popular and inexpensively printed booklets
containing short stories, poems and songs, which are produced and sold by street vendors
mainly in the Northeast of Brazil, where the artist’s mother is from.

They came from the “papel volante” tradition of Portugal and are usually
produced in black and white and illustrated with woodcuts.

The cordeis talk about popular day-to-day life concerns and offer a direct insight
of the true living conditions of the population and the rituals, superstitions
and behaviors adopted in order to cope with life’s trials and tribulations.

These rituals, superstitions and behaviors repeat and repeat and repeat and numb us
to the pain but only to offer another form of “prison.”
One that we make ourselves.

Tradigital art series #1 - original pencil on paper drawings worked digitally and printed
as archival quality fine art prints on Hahnemuhle 100% Rag based paper, with pigment inks.
Signed and numbered by the artist in limited editions of 25.

Patricia Gurgel-Segrillo is delighted and honored to have been selected for CRAFTed
Crafts Council of Ireland Education Panel which aims for the development and delivery
of training programmes relating to the Visual Arts curriculum at primary level.

“He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.”
~ William Blake