Gugan Gill is A Novice Gardener.

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 speak 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

The Grange - Norfolk, 2026

SOUP XII - Stryx, Birmingham,
2026

Island Residency - Kuressaare, Estonia, 2025

Exhibitions
2026

A Novice Gardeners Bookshelf, Stryx
Re-Thread the Loom, Parkside Gallery - Group

2025

We Want Cobs and Roses Too, 01902, Wolverhampton - Group
EOP Summer Show, Eastside, Birmingham - Group

2024

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

2023

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

2022

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

Awards
Tempus Egestas Nibh Vestibulum
Facilisis: Ultricies Ornare Ligula
2021

Gertu
2022