A Novice Gardener
Gugan Gill (b. 1999) is a multi-disciplinary artist from the Black Country, now based in Birmingham.
She is a novice gardener.
Gugan’s work grows out of garden 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 speak to a quiet connectedness, weaving together: filmmaking, books, textiles, gardening, workshops, drawing, publishing, musing, drinking tea, sitting, walking, tending, growing, cultivating.
First Class Hons -
BA Art and Design 2023 - Birmingham School of Art
MA Contemporary Art Practice 2024 - Royal College of Art