Collective Custodianship

Celebrating the 21st Anniversary of the conception of the ‘Fibonacci Rabbit Generator’. The artwork was offered for free to be collected from Occupation Studios. All 54 modules will be allocated to a network of friends, family, colleagues and the general public via social media and distributed during May 2022.. A white, red, orange, green, blue, indigo and violet will remain in the collection of the artist.

A finalist in the Jerwood Sculpture Prize 2003 for which a maquette of the sculpture was first commission and exhibited at the Jerwood Space, London. In 2010 the sculpture was fully realised with the help of volunteers at the Mile End Pavillion. Fibonacci Rabbit Generator has appeared in various site-specific configurations and in various exhibitions.

With each colour coded, plaster cast breeding rabbit module, the collective custodians will receive a signed limited edition risograph print, Certificate of Authenticity. This contains information on the artwork and the agreed terms of the collective custodianship.

The collective custodians would welcome the opportunity to exhibit and geographically unite the Fibonacci Rabbit Generator in one place, in the future. Please get in touch if you would like to be involved.

A Fine Day For Seeing

Southwark Park Galleries present ten pairs of poets and artists: Tamar Yoseloff/Alison Gill

28 JULY – 29 AUGUST 2021 // LAKE GALLERY PREVIEW: SUNDAY 25 JULY // 2–5PM (POETRY READINGS 3–4PM) EXHIBITION OPEN: WEDNESDAY // THURSDAY // FRIDAY // SATURDAY // SUNDAY // 11AM – 5PM

A Fine Day for Seeing’ takes its title from the New York School poet and curator Frank O’Hara, who bridged literary and artistic worlds in the late 50s. In this spirit of collaboration between word and image, the exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries presents ten pairs of internationally acclaimed poets and artists who have been invited to work in dialogue with each other. Each artist is represented by a single piece, and the accompanying poems will be available through performances, discussions, recordings and a publication. Some of the participating poets will also be offering writing workshops hosted by the Poetry School. The show is curated by Tamar Yoseloff, a poet with a strong engagement with visual art, and Paul Carey-Kent, an art writer with a long-standing interest in poetry. Poet // Artist Khairani Barokka // Michelle Williams Gamaker Leo Boix // Jessica Sarah Rinland Annie Freud // May Cornet Martha Kapos //Mali Morris Roy McFarlane // Hew Locke Maitreybandhu // Basil Beattie Julian Stannard // Juliette Marhieux Bartoli Harriet Tarlo // Judith Tucker Jane Yeh // Virginia Verran Tamar Yoseloff // Alison Gill

Events // Poetry Reading: Sunday 25 July, 3–4pm. No booking required Join us in Lake Galleries’ Garden for poetry readings from Khairani Barokka, Leo Boix, Annie Freud, Martha Kapos, Roy McFarlane, Maitreyabandhu, Julian Stannard, Harriet Tarlo and Tamar Yoseloff.

Poets and Artists in Dialogue: 21 August, 3–4:30pm. Booking essential Join us for a panel discussion on creative alliances featuring three pairs of artist & poet collaborators from A Fine Day For Seeing Artist: Virginia Verran & Poet: Jane Yeh Artist: Jessica Sarah Rinland & Poet: Leo Boix Artist: Alison Gill & Poet: Tamar Yoseloff

TagsA Symbiotic Association

A Symbiotic Association Publication – The Worm Is Turning

Click here to read: A Symbiotic Association_publication

‘The Worm Is Turning’ brings together the voices of artists, conservationists, writers, curators and volunteers from Benhill Road Nature Garden to explore art and ecological networks. It documents the installation of artwork by Alison Gill and Joanna Brinton in the nature garden and at the nearby Bussey Building, home to GOOD STUDIO, an open access Risograph press. Contributors include: Will McGuire, Kirsten Cooke, John Turpin and Anne Roache.

Mise-En-Scène at 4Cose

Performance Regenerator (Utopia n) Sculpture Performing Tumbleweeds-Out-of-Place and launching new work ‘In-Occupation‘ for MISE-EN-SCENE publication with readings at 4Cose, directed by Cullinan Richards. Support from London Creative Network, SPACE and the European Regional Development Fund.

Book Launch of The Gospel of Trickster

Launching a new publication in collaboration with Hercules Editions, The Gospel of Trickster by poet Nancy Charley. To accompany the poem, my specially commissioned drawings link seemingly unrelated elements from children’s Bibles, gaming culture, news feeds, fancy dress stores, volcano lore and fairy tales. The images and poem together stress the sometimes dark, sometimes playful nature of this retelling of the Gospel story for modern times. An afterword for the book has been written by journalist and cultural commentator Sophia Deboick.

I have also produced a limited edition of 10 hand-tinted (gold, silver and dayglo) offset prints on Somerset paper entitled Trickster Cosmos.

Too Cute! curated by Rachel Maclean – Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

26 Jan – 12 May 2019

Rachel Maclean will examine the world of cuteness by curating works from the Arts Council Collection and Birmingham’s collection to reveal how objects and images can have the unique ability to be simultaneously sweet and sinister. The display at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery will showcase the multiple manifestations of sinister cuteness with works ranging from 19th-century oil paintings to internet-inspired installations. Artists include Alison Gill, Gillian Wearing, Ana Maria Pacheco, Helen Chadwick, Paula Rego, Peter Blake and Hermann Sondermann. The exhibition will ask why we feel the need to share and reproduce cute things, as well as question the fine line between cuteness and creepiness. The Guardian review here.

Ecstasy in Norwich at Lower.Green

Exhibiting Regenerator (Utopia n) with gold hazlenut for ‘ECSTASY IN NORWICH’, a show that draws on ideas presented by the life and beliefs of the celebrated female mystic Julian of Norwich.

This exhibition at Lower.Green explores the resonance of these ideas in contemporary life. How does the alternative economy Julian existed within helps us think about alternative economies for creativity? What is the place of ecstatic, devotional or revelatory experience today? How are these recorded? How do we understand the gendered roles of rational versus emotional experience? Artist included in group exhibition are: Juliette Blightman, Benedict Drew, Kira Freije, INGRESS (Laura Bygrave, Nicky Deeley and Karis Upton), Bea McMahon, Jeremy Millar, Erica Scourti, Tai Shani, Anna Townley

Sinister Island – The Wailing Project Launch

The Wailing Project launched at APT Gallery is an Emma Ruston initiative. Artist including Alison Gill, Melanie Jackson and Janice Mcnab responded to a call for collaboration to examine trauma as personal, political, social, religious or gendered, through sculptural humour and performing wailing.

ON BEING TOGETHER, MEMBERSHIPS, COLLECTIVES AND UNIONS

The Partisan Social Club + Sean Griffiths This is a project aimed at developing new artworks dedicated to the concept of ‘membership’ to be sited in the outdoor spaces of Beaconsfield Gallery, Vauxhall, London. The project invited ‘members’ to join in with the realisation of a social sculpture: its design, build and the programming of its activities around collectives, unions, groups and clubs.

The Partisan Social Club: Lewis Allum, Xenia Busalova, Zhishan Chen, Chris Daubney, Sadie Edington, Riccardo Fregoni, Chang Gao, Alison Gill, Sean Griffiths, Bekki Herbert, Andy Hewitt, Felicity Holmes, Hanxuan Jiang, Mel Jordan, Khaver Idrees, Louise King, Tiantian Liu, Liz Murray, Annabelle Nguyen, Joanna Osieglewska, Tina Rousou, Iza Sasaran, Alexia Soteriou, Sven Storm, Allan Struthers, Yukako Tanaka, Toby Tobais, Ewelina Trejta, Simon Tyszko, Kai Wang, Wei Zhou.

Listen in here to the Partisan Social Club, broadcast on Isotopica, Resonance FM

Invitation to Commune in Mecklenburgh Square, London

Join us for Group Portrait With Garden

Featuring works by:

Perienne Christian, Barbara Einzig, Benedict Ernst and Helen Morse Palmer, David George, Alison Gill, Clair Joy, Florian Roithmayer, Karin Ruggaber and Anne Ryan, Clare Stent, Suzanne Treister

SEPTEMBER 6 – 9, 2018 12:00 – 6:00

P.V. SUNDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 4:00 – 6:00

READING by BARBARA EINZIG 5:00 each day.

Mecklenburgh Square, WC1

Alison Gill: Regenerator (Utopia n) Sculpture Performing Tumbleweeds-Out-of-Place

Tumbleweed thrives on an ecology of less, in environments where humans need more from elsewhere. Think of tumbleweed and it conjures up images of Western films after the gold rush, deserts and desolate locations, tragic-comic emptiness and the silence of ghosting. Tumbleweed, in visual media, often appears where everything else has gone; the place is wiped out (i.e. nothing left but tumbleweed).

Tumbleweed, an adaptation for survival. Uprooting, rolling, free-forming and seekers of abandonment. A developer’s loss could be tumbleweeds gain. As our climate changes could they arrive in a place near you? Uncontrollable and ancient, the future looks bright for these wind-witch revolutionaries…

Archives