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This work questions the sufficiency of form alone (place, materials, process and space), by imbuing the chosen materials with the possibility of enchantment and wonder.

Gill’s work operates in the realm of the imaginary, yet registers the environment we inhabit, saturated as it is with stories of war, global terrorism and ecological collapse.

'Creeper', both invasive and offensive, explores ideas of territory, trespass and boundary crossing.

Exploring how old and familiar discourses can easily take hold of cultural fantasies when in the face of serious threat.

Curated by Helen Waters and Paul Thomas, Space to Draw was an exhibition of works from a mixture of emerging and established artists with a previous relationship with Jerwood Visual Arts including Antony Gormley, Neville Gabie, Peter Randall-Page, Michael Shaw, Heather Deedman, Alison Gill and Paul McDevitt.

'Treatment' conflates the sculptural iconography of the crucifix with the image of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse and that of war trauma and healing.

Alison Gill’s Time Capsule is a group of chrome mushrooms, arranged in a fairy ring. Life-size, the mushrooms have been cast from real mushrooms, their shiny chrome surface lending them an air of other-worldliness at odds with their direct connection to objects in the real world but in keeping with supposedly magical properties of mushrooms.

Transporter 1999 by Gill is a five-metre high golden staircase that operates as part of this discourse, acting as a route to another plane of consciousness. The doubtful nature of this possibility is manifest in the structure itself, as the complexity of its engineering would seem to undermine this quest.

Exhibited at Jerwood Gallery, London 1999 and Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Brussels 1998