A Novice Gardener

Gugan Gill (b. 1999) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Birmingham and 
London. 

Gugan’s work attends to the overlooked practice of daily life, seeking out the stories, rituals, and forms of wisdom embedded in the everyday with emphasis on those that have been forgotten and/or marginalised. With particular focus on the practice of growing, place and cultivating community, a sense of domestic feminism is woven throughout her work. Inspired by Luce Giard’s reflections on embodied knowledge, and Ursula Le Guin’s consideration for the life story, Gugan consider how quiet, habitual acts carry memory, resistance, and belonging. Here we can begin to understand ways we shape and are shaped by the world around.

Recently this includes documenting the garden of her family home on her Nana Ji’s Super 8, serving endless cups of cha from hand thrown cups, and taking up carpentry.

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

MA Contemporary Art Practice 2024 - Royal College of Art 


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