Crossing different boundaries, The In-between investigated the sculptural possibilities of drawing, mapping and animation. The project spanned actual geographical terrain through fly-posting Oxford city centre and attaching laminated florecent ‘notices’ in the woods each leading to an online site which signaled entry into the darker reaches of personal and collective fantasy.
The visual tropes of science fiction, fairytales, folklore and horror were utilised to explore how old and familiar discourses can easily take hold of cultural fantasies when faced with serious threat. The narrative structures was more concerned with situation than with character and marked a formal shift in Gill’s art practice. However, her ongoing enquiry into liminality, continues to invoke the hazards of accessing unconscious psychic space, as well as the desires and pleasures of experiencing an ‘elsewhere’, beyond the everyday.
