Artist Statement
Gill Hobson works with colour, image and light. Operating at the intersection of the digital and material across a variety of contexts, works seek to provoke moments of pause and contemplation for viewers, accenting the overlooked dimensions of everyday experience. Time and duration are central to her work, often creating large scale luminous and evolving vistas that respond to architectural space.
Explorations of the relationship between person and place inform Hobson’s investigations, with deep mappings of the affects of time and light in everyday contexts forming the foundation of her work.
Working across image, sculpture and installation, her large-scale public works highlight the sculptural potentials of colour, image and light. Using digital projection with material forms to amplify spatial and psychological experience her carefully arranged compositions accent the sensory dimensions of her media. She directs the refractive, reflective and radiant qualities of her materials to produce arrangements that accent the slippery nature of experience where history & memory, reality and imagination collide toward creating new forms and experiences.
CV & Education
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
Solo exhibitions
2012 - Gill Hobson, 28 Plough Hill Gallery, Caistor
2010 - Negotiated Territories, SIA Gallery, Sheffield UK
2010 - Objects & Artworks, Abbey Walk Gallery, Lincolnshire
2008 - Gill Hobson, Ropewalk Contemporary Art & Craft, Barton upon Humber, North Lincolnshire
2008 - Gill Hobson - Inspirations in Glass, Ropewalk Contemporary Art & Craft, Barton upon Humber
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 - British Glassmakers, Obsidian Gallery, Surrey
2009 - Cohesion, Pyramid Gallery, York
2008 - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
2008 - British Glassmakers Exhibition, Obsidian Art Gallery, Stoke Mandeville
2008 - Cohesion Glassmakers Exhibition, British Embassy & Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dubai, UAE
Curated projects
2012 - Head & Whole 2, Abbey Walk Gallery, North East Lincolnshire
2012 - Winter Wonderlands, 2021 Gallery, North Lincolnshire
2008 - AXIS Curated Selection: Decorative/Ornament, AXIS, Axisweb.org
2005 - Glass Threads , Broadfield House Glass Museum, Kingswinford, UK
Live/Performance
2012 - Gill Hobson and Abbey Walk Gallery, LIGHTWORKS 2012, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby
Artist talks
2012 - Belonging: Cultural Topographies of Identity, University College, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
2012 - Head & Whole 2: Talking Heads, Abbey Walk Gallery, North East Lincolnshire
2012 - Knowledge Exchange in Design KED 1, BIAD, Birmingham
2012 - Knowledge Exchange in Design KED 2, 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 - Digital collage wall works, St Hughs Specialist College, Lincolnshire
2012 - Entrance artwork, Inmans Primary School, Yorkshire
2012 - Exterior Sculpture, Lindsey Lodge Hospice, North Lincolnshire
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