HOT PLATE: Soup Pt VIII - Eveything in Time Becomes a Kind of Weather-Gage by Gugan Gill
Wolverhampton Arts Centre
Private view Thursday 27th November 6:00pm - 8pm
Open 10:30am-4:30pm until 1/12
Following her residency as part of Hot Plate: Soup PtVIII at our Minerva Works gallery in Digbeth, Stryx is proud to present Gugan’s solo exhibition at the Wolverhampton Arts Centre in late November, with Everything in Time Becomes a Sort of Weather - Gage.
Gugan Gill is a Novice Gardener.
She is also 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.
She has been thinking about natural cycles, observational learning and being outside.
‘THE Shepherd, whose sole business it is to observe what has a reference to the flock under his care, who spends all his days and many of his nights in the open air […] how great a certainty at last he arrives by mere dint of comparing signs and events, and correcting one remark by another. Every thing in time becomes to him a sort of weather-gage. The Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the Clouds, the Winds, the Mists, the Trees, the Flowers, the Herbs, and almost every Animal with which he is acquainted. All these I say become to such a person instruments of real Knowledge.’
THE SHEPHERD OF BANBURY'S RULES (1744)