My name is P Gurgel-Segrillo and I am an artist based in Cork City.

In my native Brazil, in London and San Francisco, I’ve trained and worked in a diverse range of disciplines, through oil painting, silk-screen printing, film animation, hat design, gemology, ergonomics, interior accessories and jewellery design and manufacture.

I have developed the weaving techniques in silver and gold that I use to create unique jewellery pieces throughout 26 years of jewellery-making.

My contemporary jewellery series have been exhibited in galleries in the UK, Ireland, Japan, Brazil and the USA and are sold worldwide.

Parallel to the jewellery-making, I have produced two ‘green design’ work series of contemporary objects and sculptural lighting pieces designed and made in collaboration with wood artist Garvan McGrane and inspired by the elements water and air.

In 2004 I completed a MA Degree in Design Studies from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, in London, where I lived for 8 years and established my design-craft-art practice.

Recently I set up a workshop/studio in Cork City, Ireland, where I have  been dedicating time to figurative drawings and fine art prints. I am currently working on a tradigital art series inspired by The Human Rights, womanhood and cross-cultural identity.

bespoke ‘green design’ interior sculptures

Designed and made in collaboration with wood artist Garvan McGrane. Our common interest lies in re-assessing materials, with a true open mind. Reclaimed and re-used materials are the focus of the objects series- their inherent qualities are brought out in every piece.

Compact fluorescent lamps (which use up to a quarter of the electricity of incandescent bulbs therefore they have a key role in the efforts to fight climate change) are used in ALL lighting pieces. Sustainably managed wood is used in all sculptures.

contemporary jewellery handcrafted in fine silver and 18ct gold

Tactile, contemporary and ultimately wearable art pieces that are rootsy but urban, classy and yet understated…
Handmade with fine silver, pure silver, or as it is also called silver 999. Fine silver is softer, a crucial quality for the main making technique used: weaving. But weaving with unexpected characteristics developed through 26 years of jewellery-making. More info.

To purchase contact one of the outlets listed here.

All work is hand-crafted in my workshop in Cork City, and is made to order.

fine art prints

Figurative explorations on cross-cultural identity, womanhood, self-sufficiency and empowerment.

Even emotions associated with femininity, lightness, self-sufficiency, get an unsettling out-of-balance ‘perfection.’ The ‘impossible beauty’ which dominates the hearts and minds of our consumer society is challenged in a whimsical, elfish, puckish way.

Fine art prints signed and printed on archival quality papers and pigment inks.

tradigital art prints

Original drawings inspired by The Human Rights, womanhood and cross-cultural identity. Traditional pencil on paper, worked digitally.

Tradigital Art – when traditional and digital tools are used to create the artwork. Limited edition tradigital art prints.

 

original drawings

The bizarre and the idiosyncratic, the beautiful and harmonious are present in every day life- I strive to uncover them in an attempt to provoke, disturb, inspire and prompt reflection on our communality as one human race.

Original drawings in pencil on paper.

Please email for more information.

Design – Craft – Art : I try to blur their boundaries… good thought and good design that should go into the piece, the hand-crafted aspect and the skill which it requires as well as my artistic expression- all three are as important to me.

I am a proud member of CRAFTed: Crafts Council of Ireland’s Education Panel which aims for the development and delivery of training programmes relating to the Visual Arts curriculum at primary level.

For arts facilitation sessions please email Patricia on

p@gurgel-segrillo.com

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Opening 1st of July 2012:

Art in the Park

at The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgerald Park, Cork City

P Gurgel-Segrillo, visual artist, Cora Murphy, painter and Alan Corbett, illustrator, are the core body of artists. This beautiful Arts and Crafts style building will be our basis where we create art inspired by the park, as well as, under the guidance of researcher in Cultural Anthropology, Marcelo Archanjo, invite other Cork City artists for collaborations/exhibitions and offer courses/workshops and arts facilitation sessions.

Thanks for the support of:

Cork City Council

and for the assistance of the  Cork City Enterprise Board Ltd.

For more more information please visit my website

www.gurgel-segrillo.com