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Profile
Gill’s work is concerned with the quiet, reflective beauty found in the subtle traces and random marks left behind by the passage of time. Peeling paint on a much mended shed, worn floor tiles in a fourteenth century church, bricked up windows in a derelict building or the fleeting marks and rhythms emerging and disappearing as the tide ebbs and flows. These small, almost insignificant imperfections and irregularities in our everyday surroundings hold deep memories and connections for her of times and lives now past. The beautiful coastline of North Norfolk offers constant inspiration and recently Holy Island in Northumberland where the much repaired, upturned herrng boats used as sheds on the edge of the harbour have become the starting point for her most recent work.
Working with dyes, discharge processes, stitched resists, screenprinting, paint and hand stitch, Gill creates sensitively pieced and stitched work reflecting the wear and tear of life and time passing.
Gill completed the HE Diploma in Stitched Textiles at East Berkshire College where she gained a Distinction.
Qualifications
2007 HE Diploma in Stitched Textiles (Distinction)
2004 City and Guilds Creative Embroidery Part II
2002 City and Guilds Creative Embroidery Part I
Memberships
Licentiate of the Society of Designer Craftsmen
Embroiderer’s Guild
HapticArt
Frayed Edges
Textile Forum South West
Exhibitions
2008
2008 March, Contemporary Textiles Fair, Landmark Arts, Teddington
2008 June/July, ‘Traces’ Exhibition, TFSW Walford Mill, Wimborne, Dorset
2008 July, HapticArt ‘One Year On’, Art Van Go, Knebworth
2008 August, Hampshire Open Studios
2009
2009 March, Contemporary Textiles Fair, Landmark Arts, Teddington
2009 May, Petworth House, Costume and Textiles Fair
2009 August, Hampshire Open Studios
2009 September, Sunbury Millennium Embroidery Gallery, On the Edge
2010
2010 January, National Needlework Archive, Greenham Common
2010 March, Landmark Contemporary Textile Fair,Teddington
2010 May, West Berkshire Open Studios, Headley, nr.Newbury
2010 September/October, Black Swan Gallery, Frome
2010 October, Harvest Exhibition, St Paul's Church, Ashford Hill, Hampshire
2011
2011 January, Fountain Gallery, East Molesey
2011 March, Landmark Contemporary Textiles Fair, Teddington
2011 April, National Needlework Archive, Greenham Common
2011 May, West Berkshire Open Studios, Headley, near Newbury
Contact
E-mail: gillbanks@supanet.com
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