Originally trained in Design for the Stage and having worked for a long time with textiles, Gill is exploring the synergy between stitch, paper and cloth using process as a starting point. As the work develops and changes, she intends to reintroduce her love of narrative, performance, myth and theatrical archetypes into the work.

The pieces on view here today explore the malleability and tensile strength of the chosen medium, paper, fabric, thread etc,. They are sometimes inspired by landscape or are redolent of husks, bones, carapaces or spent larval cases: items that speak of the waste we leave behind.

Often the paper and scrap dictates its own forms and structures. Using ‘found’ paper, mostly junk mail and used security envelopes and incorporating scrap textiles, metal foils and timber, they are reshaped into 2D and 3D structural pieces. The works are constructed using pleats, folds, darts and appliqué and held together with simple stitching. Every stitch is functional within the construction.

Gill exhibits regularly across the South East and wider afield. Exhibitions include:

Undoings, Sussex Contemporary, BN9 gallery, Newhaven 2025
Sussex Contemporary Open exhibition, BN9 Gallery 2025
Adur Art Trail, Open houses and Brighton City Airport group shows
Steyning Art Trail – group shows
House of Smalls, Edinburgh, group shows
Skyway Gallery, Shoreham by Sea, Winterset, group show
Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield - group shows
Colonnade House, Worthing – solo exhibition and group shows
Ramster Textile Exhibition, Ramster Hall; group shows