Gillian trained at Winchester School of Art, receiving a PhD in Fine Art (Painting) in 2009. She lives and works in Hampshire and London, and exhibits locally and nationally both as a solo artist and as a member of the landscape group Land2 and with the Bermondsey Artists Group.
She works in oil on canvas with subjects inspired by landscape, archaeology and mythology. Her paintings explore the territory between figuration and abstraction and examine the relationship of the body to the ground in which it is located and from which the painting develops.
Many paintings are large scale and develop over time, though some smaller pieces occur in the making. The personal is explored alongside the universal, and themes include mortality, the engagement with time and the impact of the greater powers of nature.
She writes on the work of the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and is a regular conference speaker on the relationship between art and archaeology, and on drawing.
2002 – BA (Hons) Visual Art, Winchester School of Art
2003 – MA Fine Art (Painting), Winchester School of Art
2009 – PhD Fine Art (Painting) Winchester School of Art
2002 to date – Member of Land2, a network of UK artists that exists to promote and explore new ways of working with the landscape
2006 to date – Member of Bermondsey Artists' Group
2006 – 'Animations' , Box Gallery, Spitalfields, London
2006 – 'Excavations', Edwin Young Gallery, Salisbury
2006 to date – University of Winchester Stripe
2007 – Theatro Technis, Camden, London
2008 – 'The Figure Remains', Main Gallery, Salisbury
2008 – 'The Figure Remains', PhD submission, Winchester School of Art
2009 – 'Mortal', The Rag Factory, Spitalfields, London
2010 – The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London
2002 – New Greenham Arts, Newbury
2002 – Pond Galleries, London
2003 – Ashridge Young Artists, Hertfordshire
2003 – R K Burt Gallery, London
2004 – 'Visual Research', Winchester Gallery
2004 – 'After Landscape : Memory, Place, Identity' Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax
2005 – Art-if-Axe, Castle Vault, Southampton
2005 – 'After Landscape: Memory, Place, Identity' Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2007 – 'Meme', Tower Bridge Business Centre, London
2007 – Blue Elephant, Camberwell, London
2008 – 'All over the Place', University of the West of England
2009 – 'Schizophrenic Capitalism',The Menier Gallery, London
2009 – The Yard at the Laundry, Winchester
2010 – Hyde 900, Winchester Cathedral; Harbour Lights, Southampton; Main Gallery, Salisbury
2010 – 'Re-imagining Treasures of Hyde Abbey', Winchester Cathedral
2010 – 'Flux', Harbour Lights, Southampton
2010 – The Screen, Winchester
2010 – 'All over the Place' Stanley, and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds
Hampshire County Council Collection
'The Figure Remains' PhD thesis, University of Southampton, 2009
Email : info@gillianrobertson.co.uk
Telephone : 07855 189742
© Copyright Gillian Robertson 2010