Marenka Gabeler completed her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2006 and was awarded the Parallel Prize for Painting. Her work has entered a number of collections, such as Alison Jacques Gallery, Caldic Collection and Torch Gallery and in 2008 Gabeler was awarded the Boise Travel Scholarship. Gabeler’s work spans painting, photography, video, performance and installation and her work investigates the construction and fallacy of individual identities. Often based on partial re-enactments of Old Master works, her fluid paintings underscore the temporary nature of appearance; her figures exist as ghostly gestures; defaced and obliterated, her subjects remain beyond our grasp; and through their lack of substance they render the familiar extraordinary, constantly diverting the viewer’s gaze from self to Other.