Artist statement
My ongoing work reflects my evolving practice working across various media and contexts through installation, three dimensional form and site-specific works. A broad materials based background and artistic vocabulary which embraces photography, film and soundworks form the basis of my hybrid practice.
Current works address the interplay between person and place, how it is understood, analysed, or indeed, constructed through art making, addressing the importance of environment in everyday experience.
My work continues my interest in people and spaces, creating artworks which propose dialogues between object/artifact, person and place. The subtle interplay between person and place and the ways in which we may invigorate our encounters with everyday environments crystallized as an area of concern through my work in the health and wellbeing sectors and I work independently and collaboratively in a variety of contexts, both studio based and through longer term public facing projects.
Research themes explore time, change and continuity, influenced by the technological, social & political dimensions that affect person & place. Artworks range from highly decorative objects, created intuitively and rooted in craft practice, to research led investigative projects. Works respond to the affective potentials of space using a range of media to critically interrogate a set of situations and conditions in time and place: in this area of physical and psychological exchange art–making is implicit in sense–making through a convergence of subject, site, context and time.
Qualifications and training
- 2012 KED Research Associate, Site Gallery, Sheffield UK
- 2011 Accredited Coach for Creative Leadership, Creative Partnerships, Hull
- 2010 Doctoral Researcher in Contemporary Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield UK
- 2010 MA Contemporary Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
- 1987 Three Dimensional Design, Birmingham Polytechnic, Birmingham UK
Employment
- 2012 Research Associate, C3Ri, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield UK
- 2010 Lead Artist, The Ironstone Centre, North Lincolnshire NHS Trust, North Lincolnshire
- 2008 Lead Artist, Sandfield House Arts Project, RDaSH NHS Trust, North Lincolnshire
- 2007 Creative Agent, Creative Partnerships Humber, Yorkshire
- 2000 Freelance Arts Practitioner & Consultant, Various corporate, community & education based projects, national
- 1995 lecturer in Art & Design, Grimsby College, North East Lincolnshire
- 1987 Visiting Lecturer, University of Central England, BIAD, Birmingham
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 Gill Hobson, 28 Plough Hill Gallery, Caistor
- 2010 Objects & Artworks, Abbey Walk Gallery, Lincolnshire
- 2010 Negotiated Territories, SIA Gallery, Sheffield UK
- 2008 Gill Hobson, Ropewalk Contemporary Art & Craft, Barton upon Humber, North Lincolnshire
- 2006 Gill Hobson, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Head & Whole 2, Abbey Walk Gallery, North East Lincolnshire
- 2012 Tegel: Flights of Fancy, Babylon Cinema, Berlin, Germany
- 2010 British Glass, Plowden & Thompson, Midlands
- 2010 Take Thirty, Broadfield House Glass Museum, West Midlands
- 2009 Cohesion, Pyramid Gallery, York
- 2009 British Glassmakers, Obsidian Gallery, Surrey
- 2008 Cohesion Glassmakers Exhibition, British Embassy & Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dubai, UAE
- 2008 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
Curated projects
- 2012 Winter Wonderlands, 2021 Gallery, North Lincolnshire
- 2012 Head & Whole 2, Abbey Walk Gallery, North East Lincolnshire
- 2008 AXIS Curated Selection: Decorative/Ornament, AXIS, Axisweb.org
- 2005 Glass Threads, Broadfield House Glass Museum, Kingswinford, UK
Artist talks
- 2012 Head & Whole 2: Talking Heads, Abbey Walk Gallery, North East Lincolnshire
- 2012 Knowledge Exchange in Design KED 2, BIAD, Birmingham
- 2012 Belonging: Cultural Topographies of Identity, University College, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- 2012 Knowledge Exchange in Design KED 1, BIAD, Birmingham
Private commissions
- 2010 Wall relief sculpture in glass, Private Residence, Lincolnshire
- 2008 Commemorative Vessel Form, Private Residence, Lincolnshire
- 2007 Meridian, Private Residence, London
- 2005 Deep Blue Meridian, Domestic residence, Surrey
Public commissions
- 2012 Exterior Sculpture, Lindsey Lodge Hospice, North Lincolnshire
- 2012 Digital collage wall works, St Hughs Specialist College, Lincolnshire
- 2012 Entrance artwork, Inmans Primary School, Yorkshire
- 2011 Arts & Wayfinding Strategy, The Ironstone Centre, NHS Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire
- 2011 Chapel of Rememberence Sculpture, St Hughs Festival, Grimsby Minster, North East Lincolnshire
- 2010 Interior works, Lindsey Lodge Hospice, Lincolnshire
- 2010 Tree of Life Window, Sandfield House Arts Project, RDaSH NHS Trust, North East Lincolnshire
- 2009 Rainbow Sculpture, The Cygnets Childrens Hospice, Lincolnshire
Corporate commissions
- 2007 SG Jewel, Gibson Guitar Town London, London
- 2006 Sculpture, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Miami/London, Pride of Hawaii Vessel
- 2006 Vessel Form, Watersedge, Lincolnshire
Site specific
- 2011 Lead Artist, The Ironstone Centre, NHS Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire
- 2010 Lead Artist, Sandfield House,, Lincolnshire
Other
- 2008 Worked Acquired for Museum Collection, Museum of Nature in Art, Gloucestershire
- 2006 Work acquired for Museum Collection, Broadfield House Glass Museum, Midlands
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