July 30- August 28, 2004

William Gill | sculpture and wall works | review

> opening Saturday, July 31 | 2 - 6pm

Untitled # 5
m/m on plywood, dimensions 15”x15” 2004

installation view

installation view

“ Spotlight, Stage #1”
oak floorboards, dimensions 48”x48” 2004

installation view

“ Upside Down Sky ”
spruce, dimensions variable 2004

installation view

WILLIAM GILL was born and raised in Ottawa. He received a BFA from Mount Allison University in 1991 and moved to St John’s, Newfoundland in late 1996 where he began his studio practice in earnest. Since then, his work has been included in numerous regional and national exhibitions. Gill has attended several artist-in-residence programs and been awarded project grants from the NL Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Most recently he was named to the longlist for the 2004 Sobey Art Award and participated in 'Prairie North 2004', a creative residency in Grande Prairie, Alberta.

I grew up in an urban area in the heart of Canada.
I still live in the city, but in a reasonably remote part of the country- St John’s, Newfoundland. I am closer to wild things like the ocean and vast unpopulated areas. A good deal of my time is spent absorbing and being witness to natural process. To me, it is a fascinating hybrid of order and chaos. I see beauty in things being built and destroyed, things living and dying, movement and stillness, all in a wonderfully related cycle. I learn from and try to mimic patterns I see in our more or less civilized world and from patterns that have been evolving for millions of years in nature. These patterns may be ethereal or physical and in broad terms appear to overlap one another often. Industry and artificiality influence my work and thought processes as do organic form and matter. Part of what interests me is how different materials interact. I thrive on making poetic connections between objects, ideas and materials that are in contrast to one another.

William Gill

“ Meteorite Narrowly Missing a Tree ”
maple, bronze, steel, dimensions 70”x 22”x22” 2002

“ Satellite ”
wood, stainless steel, dimensions 23”x14”x14” 2002

William Gill would like to thank the following for their generous support: