Gabriela Fole Nieto

Pseudonym: Gabriela Fole
Category: Painter, teacher and solicitor
Birth Place: Lugo

   Cultura
 Curriculum

After studying Secondary Education in Lugo, she took a degree in Law and graduated in Teaching (Galician Language). She worked as an assistant Professor at the Mercantile School of A Coruña and civil servant in the Linguistic Normalization Service (Consellería de Educación – Xunta de Galicia, Lugo). She has been an autodidact painter since her youth. In 1996, she joined the workshop ‘Artes Plásticas Luz Darriba’, carrying out a collective exhibition.

 Work & Activities

PUBLICATIONS:
"Lágrimas dunha avoa" (verse) and "Desiderio Fole, unha familia represaliada" (essay).

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
1999. Sala Pousadoiro (Lugo).
2004. Fontevella Tearoom in Viveiro (Lugo) and International Naïf Art Exhibition in Madrid.
2005. Casa Mañas, Mondoñedo (Lugo).
2006. Sargadelos Gallery (Lugo), Second Contemporary Art Fair, Marbella (Málaga) and Sixth Contemporary Art Fair (Lisbon).
2007. Catalonia Gallery (Barcelona), Art Fair (Almería) and Cultural Centre, Santiago de Reinante (Lugo).

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
1996. ‘Artes Plásticas Luz Darriba’.
1999. Casa da Xuventude (Santiago de Compostela) and Xunta de Galicia (Lugo).
2004. Cultural Centre, Santiago de Reinante (Lugo).
2005. Cultural Centre, Santiago de Reinante (Lugo).
2006. ‘VI Exposición Colectiva de Otoño Artistas Plásticos Lucenses’, Almirante Gallery (Lugo).
2007. Cultural Centre, Santiago de Reinante (Lugo) and Adena Itinerant Exhibition.

 Other Interesting Aspects

There is a monograph about her painting within the collection "Maestros de la Pintura y Escultura Gallega", Anuart Publications.

Part of her work can be found at the University of Santiago, at the Naïf Art Museum and in private collections.

She gave the University of Santiago two of her paintings: "Volare" and "El terrorismo, plaga de este estilo".