Gabrielle Wambaugh

Gabrielle Wambaugh is a sculptor. Her work and artistic practice have been presented throughout Europe and internationally.

In 2002, she was awarded the Altadis Prize, accompanied by the publication of her first monograph by Actes Sud. In 2003, she received her first public commission, in the city of Daegu, South Korea. In 2005 and 2006, she was invited to undertake research residencies at the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Cité de la Céramique. In 2007–08, 2014, 2018, 2021 and 2023, she continued her research into stoneware and explored the notion of “fusions” at the European Ceramic Workcentre (EKWC), an international centre for ceramic research.

Awarded the Norma Lipman Research Fellowship, she spent several years in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, where her work was supported by a publication funded by the Arts Council of England. In 2024, she was awarded the Pigott Family Endowment Fellowship in the United States.

Gabrielle Wambaugh’s work has been exhibited in numerous museums, art centres and private galleries across Europe, the United States, South Korea and China, including Le Grand-Hornu in Belgium; the Capitoline Museums in Rome and the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy; and the Prince’s Palace of Monaco. She has also participated in Ceramix at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, the Musée National de Céramique de Sèvres, La Maison Rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert and at the FRAC Picardy.

Gabrielle creates sculptures through processes of suggestion, concealment and layering—works that are not immediately visible in their entirety and that invite multiple interpretations. She is interested in emphasizing the ambiguous nature of sculpture and explores notions of periphery, norms and representation.