Using images from the artists own home to produce a kaleidoscope of moving image, colour and light, this immersive environment invites audiences to consider what it means to be ‘at home’ in the 21st Century.
Featuring dual projections with transparent and reflective media, this immersive installation contemplates the critical potentials of home as a site of identity and belonging. An evolving vista provoking dialogues around ideas of inside/outside, memory/imagination, and the increasingly technologised relation of home/work, Mirror Stage acts as a site and sight where the familiar becomes strange.
Commissioned as part of SHINE, Light up the North emerging artists programme
Gill creates extraordinary environments filled with colour, image and light.
Using colour, projection, reflection and transparent materials, her sculptures range from the small to the large and are enjoyed in galleries, at festivals and at public events in outdoor spaces.
An artist with diverse experience delivering UK and international commissions and exhibitions, she regularly works with curators, producers and commissioners, alongside clients in the cultural, commercial, educational and public sector.
She makes art, presents at conferences, teaches and mentors, and enjoys working both independently or as part of a collaborative team. Recent activities include, solo & group showings in galleries, and at festivals and events in the public realm.
She regularly delivers talks and presentations at academic, conference and community events and is an experienced arts manager and specialist in creating environments for health & wellbeing contexts.
The SHINE programme aims to nurture and develop new talent, giving artists the opportunity to exhibit or perform new work at a number of Light Up The North festivals. Artists are selected through an open-call process and will typically be awarded bursaries of up to £15,000 to realise their new artwork. The artwork has to be suitable for outdoor winter light festivals, artistically challenging/interesting and of high quality, have a strong element of digital/technology within its design, and be resilient enough to withstand the winter weather at multiple festivals (October – March) and transportation across our festival network.
As well as financial support, each artist will also receive a full induction to the programme, training and mentoring from across the LUTN network. We will work directly with commissioned artists to support their development, with guidance in areas such as marketing, finance, production, risk assessments method statements (RAMS) and fundraising.
To be eligible to apply to the SHINE programme artists must be UK-based and perceived as an emerging talent (aged 18 or over) with an idea for a shining light artwork, and the skills to realise that idea
