Gugan Gill (b. 1999) is a multi-disciplinary artist from the Black Country, now based in Birmingham.

Gugan’s work grows out of garden/cultivation practices and the rhythms of everyday life. She draws on embodied knowledge and shifting landscapes, where slowness and care become ways of learning about our surroundings, echoing Ursula Le Guin’s emphasis on the life story. Here we begin to understand the ways we shape, and are shaped by, the world around us. This carries through into her tree care and conservation work at Birmingham TreePeople, and her collaborative, community-rooted practice at Artefact, where reciprocity shapes how we live and work alongside wider ecologies.

Gugan’s practice speaks to a quiet connectedness, weaving together: filmmaking, books, textiles, gardening, workshops, drawing, publishing, musing, drinking tea, sitting, walking, tending, growing, cultivating.

Education
First Class Hons -
BA Art and Design 2023 - Birmingham School of Art

MA Contemporary Art Practice 2024 - Royal College of Art

Residencies

Ongoing - Students of Nature, Grand Union, Birmingham - Learning Programme, 2026

The Grange - Norfolk, 2026

SOUP XII - Stryx, Birmingham,
2026

Thread The Loom - IKON, Birmingham, 2025

Island Residency - Kuressaare, Estonia, 2025

Exhibitions
2026

UPCOMING - I NEED TO START A GARDEN - Wolverhampton Art Centre, Wolverhampton
A Novice Gardeners Bookshelf - Stryx, Birmingham
Re-Thread the Loom - Parkside Gallery, Birmingham
Open Studio - Stryx, Birmingham
Hot Plate, Meet The Artists - Stryx, Birmingham

2025

THE STATE OF PHOTOGRAPHY V, GRAIN - Parkside, Birmingham
EOP Summer Show - Eastside, Birmingham
Thread The Loom - IKON, Birmingham
We Want Cobs and Roses Too - 01902, Wolverhampton

2024

The Dispensary Open - Hypha Studios, Wrexham
Cosmic Modelling - Vivid Projects, Birmingham
Crafting Memory, Intimate Places - Royal College of Art, London
Moving Image Display - Two Queens, Leicester
Grandma. Nani Ji. Teta. Jada. Granny. Nan. - Royal College of Art, London
CAP Cinema - Tate Modern, London
Ripples - Hypha Studios, London
EOP Summer Show - Eastside, Birmingham
We Must Cultivate Our Garden - Royal College of Art, London

2023

Cha Party - The Hide, Stroud
EOP Summer Show - Eastside, Birmingham

2022

BAAAD WIP - Centrala, Birmingham
IT'S BAAAD THAT - Birmingham School of Art. Birmingham
BAAAD Annual 2022 - Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham
EOP Summer Show - Eastside, Birmingham
Staying With the Troubles - Vivid Projects, Birmingham
Left Feet Forward: Birmingham Cooperatives - Artefact Projects,
Birmingham
Photocopies ii - Recent Activity, Birmingham