Gabby Loo

💖🍊✨ Youth Week WA Mural Project and Place Jam at Woodlupine Family Centre, Forrestfield. This event is a safe space for LGBTQIA+ young people 🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏳️‍🌈 🎟️ BOOK TICKETS VIA EVENTBRITE 🎟️ Get ready to unleash your creativity and paint some awesome art with fellow young people! Youth Mural Project and Place Jam Join us for a FREE fun and creative day at Woodlupine Family Centre where young people come together to bring vibrant art to life! Artist Gabby Loo willl be guiding the creation of tiles to add to our mural masterpeice! This is a great chance to express yourself, meet new friends, and make a difference in the community. ——————————————— WHEN: April 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM - 1.00PM Art Workshop. Followed by 1.00pm - 5.00pm Help create a brand new community garden with City of Kalamunda’s Youth Week Place Jam! Lunch is provided and DJ ARI-ON will be providing the tunes! ——————————————— WHERE: Woodlupine Family Centre Inc. 88 Hale Road, Forrestfield. Follow the footprints on the path to find us! 🩷🍊✨ Here are some sneak peek images of the mural design. It is the largest mural artwork I have designed thus far - it’s going to be huge! @cityofkalamunda

I hope the stickers stay on this frame forever 💌 9 years after graduating, I never wanted to put this degree up on my wall. It took years to unwork the art school elitism mentality within. I have to actively remind myself that art is meant to be enjoyable, cathartic and transformative. That is all it has to be, it demands nothing more. In my tertiary education experience, the conventions of the Western contemporary art gallery seemed to be the only place our art could exist in. What a limiting context. Sometimes I wish I didn’t go to art school so young and so malleable in the brain. I wish I waited before pursuing formal education. But alas I am here, in this chapter of my artist career, believing in the fun and joy of creation everyday, working in community and encouraging the imaginative art skills of others. I chose this song with my Bachelor’s Degree certificate because it was an anthem for my last semesters at uni. Getting through tertiary education as a very uncertain young person with undiagnosed ADHD is rough stuff! Lol for real, glad I didn’t drop out. Glad I finished what I started. Glad I know now what I want from an education in art and art history 🪿❤️‍🔥✨ My favourite units were from the History of Art major, and I was just one unit off from getting that major! I would not mind studying more units from that field someday.

Burmese Artists Panel Discussion Saturday, 21 March 2-3 pm AWST Hybrid (online and in person at @zigzaggallerykalamunda ) How do heritage and memory travel across borders? Join an international panel of Burmese artists as they explore how cultural symbolism and the 2021 military coup have shaped their creative lives. From navigating multiple identities to forging new paths for the Burmese diaspora, this conversation offers a rare, personal look at what it means to remain tied to ancestral stories while living and creating from afar. The panel is facilitated by @nathalie_myanmart , an internationally recognised scholar and independent curator of South and Southeast Asian contemporary art. Panelists: ✨ @nat.the.realist Natalie de Rozario (Boorloo) is a Burmese-Australian visual artist whose work explores migration, matriarchy, myth, and memory. A finalist in the 2023 Lester Prize, she has exhibited across WA, including at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. ✨ @st.maur.bespoke @acn_seymour Aaron Seymour (Boorloo) is a multidisciplinary arts leader and designer with over 15 years of experience. Drawing on his Burmese heritage, he bridges traditional knowledge with contemporary design to explore themes of preservation and identity, seeking to grow resilient, inclusive arts ecosystems. ✨ @richiehtet Htet (Paris) is a queer Myanmar artist whose work explores eroticism, identity, and the human figure. Deeply informed by his experiences in a conservative society, his work has been featured in significant exhibitions across Yangon and Singapore. ✨ @gabxloo Gabby Loo (Boorloo) is a multidisciplinary artist and DJ from a Shan and Hakka migrant family. Their work remixes cultural and autobiographical memory, with contributions to Liminal Magazine, and residencies at the State Library of WA and Hyphenated Projects. ✨ @mia.khin.boe Khin Boe (Naarm) is a Butchulla and Burmese artist whose practice explores the inheritance and disinheritance of both cultures. Her work responds to historical and contemporary acts of violence and has been presented at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Institute of Modern Art. Link in Bio to register!

Local wordsmith @sookjeet at the Asia Pacific Art Awards 2026 🩷🌈☕️🌕 @creative.australia

GIGGY GIG TOMORROW @wamuseum for LUNAR NEW YEAR 2026 💚🐎🔥 I am on the DJ decks from 5-6pm and 8-9pm. There will be performances from Chinese diaspora artists, food vendors and a night time opportunity to see the Terracotta Warriors exhibition 👀✨🥬 See the schedule pictured above! 💚 This is a FREE family friendly event 📆 5-9pm Tuesday 17th February 2026 📍 Front courtyard of WA Museum Boola Bardip, Northbridge ps. The wonton soup was proudly provided by my Mum, no other comfort like Mum’s wontons. Chives galore!!! pps. A friend recently told me they loved how I included ‘5 dols’ by Christine and The Queens in my DJ set practice footage, and they ended up listening to the album that whole week for a feel good nostalgic throwback. That made my day 🥲 Glad to be reawakening people’s loves of old favourite tunes they haven’t connected with in years.

Panel Discussion Announcement ✨️ ​As part of my solo exhibition, A Bag of Rice for a Saturday Child, I am so proud to bring together a group of incredible Burmese artists based in Perth, Melbourne, and Paris. ​For a long time, I looked for my identity and heritage in galleries and institutions, more often that not it was nowhere to be found. I realised that if I wanted to see Burmese representation, I couldn’t just wait for it to happen— I had to create those spaces and experiences myself. During the discussion, we'll be diving into the nuances of heritage, the collision of global culture, and what it means to reclaim our identity through contemporary art. ​🗓 When: Saturday, 21 March | 2–3pm AWST ​📍 Where: Hybrid (In-person @zigzaggallerykalamunda & Online) ​🎤 Panelists: Mia Boe @mia.khin.boe , Natalie de Rozario, Richie Htet @richiehtet , Gabby Loo @gabxloo , & Aaron Seymour @acn_seymour ​✨ Facilitated by: Nathalie Johnston @nathalie_myanmart (Director, MYANM/ART) A massive thank you to @nathalie_myanmart for your support and @zigzaggallerykalamunda for helping make this event happen. More information and registration link available soon! 🎨: Censor, 2026, Natalie de Rozario, charcoal on paper

🇲🇲💛 5th Anniversary of the Spring Revolution Protest 💛🇲🇲 Rally with Burmese diaspora community and allies in Cannington on Sunday 1st February 2026 from 11am to 1pm 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 My friend @mshayleybeth just shared this poster with me today, so I figured posting it would help get the word out 🫶 I’ll always be dreaming of the day the revolution comes and we can all finally go back home and help rebuild Myanmar’s bright future.

Coming in fast for @wamuseum Jade Nights 💚 I am DJ-ing on Friday 30th January 6-8pm at WA Museum Boola Bardip 🧧🐎🎶 Link in bio for tickets. This is a mood board for my set, with some videos from a medieval themed New Year’s Eve partatoe I enjoyed a lot with @mikokatze @nat.the.realist @cyndork @kim_donnelly ❤️ hosted by @tau_foo_fah at the house I used to live in with @_what.is.to.be.done_ The last two photos are of the apartment building my parents used to live in Chinatown Rangoon - now known as Yangon. A city in a country known as Myanmar 🇲🇲 But will always be Burma in our family stories. A place may change its name, but it will always be remembered by generations who called it by a more familiar name. Familiar to the mouth and in sound. Remembered this way throughout life’s chapters, seasons of relations, memories formed with a place’s name in mind. Then they rename the place one day and questions arise as to who named it before and why? And how does this new place name represent us now, or does it represent us at all? Did this place ever understand us or did we learn to make it our own living amongst the conflict we were born into? It’s interesting how places and history is like that... Anyways, welcome to the diaspora bishes, see you on the dance floor xx

To the cat who wouldn’t let go— of my leg. It is the one and only Bastille. I haven’t drawn a fully resolved comic in ages! Felt nice to digitally draw out this one from my sketchbook. Made whilst in residence @hyphenated_projects 🌱 Bastille was the first cat I ever truly loved, son of @_what.is.to.be.done_ ~ Rest in peace our sweet and naughti lil man.

The Sprout Residency has begun @hyphenated_projects 🌱🩵

This FRIDAY @mikokatze and I will have a market stall at the PrideFest Flag Raising ceremony ✨🪿🏳️‍⚧️💛🏳️‍🌈 It’ll be nice to celebrate pride locally with the @townofvicpark @vicparkpride 🤗 I will be showcasing my art, selling prints and a poetry zine. Miko and I hope to see your handsome faces there! The FREE Brokeback Mountain 20th Anniversary movie night also looks delightful 😭💌 save the date and bring a box of tissues!!!

If you’ve ever wondered “What art does Gabby make?”, “Why do they do it?” or “Where can I listen to their DJ mixes?!”...well it all has a home on the web 🌐✨ 👈🏽🩵 LiNK iN BiO I’ve been working hard on my website this year and it is FiNALLY ready for you all to see 😊 It’s a big change from my first artist website, I challenged myself to be very selective this time. I hope you enjoy learning more about the world of my creative expression. The website is best viewed on a desktop. Stay tuned for new artworks and projects additions as the years go by! 🤗🗺️ Image: A precious small sketch drawn circa 2016, photo taken in the backyard under one of my Mum’s favourite little trees in the yard that would bloom soft purple flowers. Background image is of a special farm vacation I took earlier this year where horses Bowie and Jack live.