Although better known for her work exhibited in galleries and museums, Alison Gill works on many projects and events beyond the white cube to investigate encounters with social context, audience and environment. One of the early temporary interventions was at the Chiltern Sculpture Park: The In-between which was also accompanied by an animated web project, Follow The Trail and fly-posting around Oxford city centre. Events include works in rural and urban public places and anything that does not fit elsewhere; the London Underground; exhibiting in an empty unit the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre; producing a drawing blog and performative collaborations at artist led frivolities including Joshua Compston’s Fete Worse than Death, Gavin Turk’s Livestock Market and Articultural Show on the Southbank, Deborah Curtis’s The House of Fairytales; Mark Pilkington’s Strange Attractor Salon, Bridget Nicholls’s and Mark Pilkington’s First International Arts Pestival. Other events have included Back-shop Salon, a series of evening events including a collaboration with poet Tamar Yoseloff, events were organised by Alison Gill to coincide with her exhibition Legend Trip, 2012 which explored contemporary folklore and other themes within Gill’s work on show at Charlie Dutton Gallery.
Other site specific sculptures include ‘Grain of a Universe (Lithic/Ferric)’, 2014, made in situ at The Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum, Indiana USA, produced in their workshop and foundry. In an ongoing partnership with Art@CMS, the sculpture ‘Stranger Than Paradise’, made as the Research Artist for CMS CERN 2013 was recently exhibited at the 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics in Valencia in the Palacio De Congresos De Valencia, Spain.