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Gabi is an artist and a Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course leading on the L4 delivery; prior to this role she acquired an extensive portfolio of teaching both in her role as an artist and as an academic. Gabi has worked in the UK, France and Russia in her previous educational roles and has enjoyed a broad level of educational experience.
Romanian/British artist Gabi Boiangiu studied at the Arts University, Bucharest before moving to the UK to do her Masters at Bradford School of Art and Design. Gabi has been teaching both in FE and HE since 2003 and graduated the PGCE at University of Huddersfield in 2007.
With a long-term interest in collaborative practices, Gabi has undertaken multiple extensive projects engaging both with other visual artists as well as the audience. Her practice continues to investigate the domestic in relation to class and gender issues. Recent collaborative work - Drawing Dialogue - investigates the notion of ownership in visual arts and its role to developing new creative ideas. Gabi’s practice is multidisciplinary and project based, exploring visual and material possibilities in given environments.
www.instagram.com/gabrielaboiangiu
Academic Contributions:
PARADOX (European Forum for Fine Art Education) Committee member since 2025. Conference Steering Committee member for Teaching and Learning Conference in Dublin, 2026
NAFAE (National Association for Fine Art Education) Committee member and co-secretary since 2022.
Leeds Arts University - Learning & Teaching Enhancement Conference 2026, stand-alone contribution: A Medal for Success
Leeds Arts University - Learning & Teaching Enhancement Conference 2025, stand-alone presentation: Flight
2021, 2028, Drawing Dialogue Symposium hosting, linked to exhibition programme.
Artefacts
Boiangiu, G. (2022) ‘Weeds’ (https://lau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17755/), ‘Following Threads -Industry and Our Environment’ Bradford Industrial Museum, 2022
Exhibitions
2026 – Class Act, working class exhibition at Leeds, Arts University, UK
2025 – 2026 Thing Power Research Group vitrine exhibition
2024 – 2025 Thing Power Research Group vitrine exhibition
2024 – Weeds Up, exhibition at DalgArt, Romania
2022 - Following Threads at Bradford Industrial Museum
2021 - Drawing Dialogue 3 (DD3) at Keighley Creative, UK and DalgArt, Romania
2018 - Drawing Dialogue 2 (DD2), Astiki Sxoli, Katerini, Greece
2016 - Drawing Dialogue 1 (DD1), DalgArt, Romania ‘Drawing Dialogue’ has also hosted several drawing symposiums and artist talks.
Other previous exhibitions include: LAF Laroque, France, 2019 and 2016, Moscow Reporter 1 and 2 at DalgArt, Romania, 2017, 2018, Tiny Diagrams at Brooklyn Library, USA, 2016, Sampling Spaces exhibition and residency at Tescani, Romania, 2009, Fragments at the Arts University of Sarasota, USA, 2009, Illustrate This at Dean Clough Gallery Halifax, UK, 2008, home/acasa project at Leeds Arts Gallery, UK, 2007; at Arts Museum, Craiova, Romania, 2007, at Gallery 169, Bucharest, 2007 and at Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax, 2008, Narcissus at South Square Gallery, 2006.