Dylan Gill is a contemporary British artist, renowned for his distinctive Cubist-inspired works that explore the emotional and perceptual dimensions of human experience. Born in London, Gill demonstrated an early fascination with the human form, a theme that would later become central to his artistic practice. His formative years were marked by a keen interest in portraiture and figuration, laying the foundation for a career centred on dissecting and reassembling the human image through a modernist lens.
Gill pursued his formal education in fine art at Goldsmiths, University of London, an institution recognised for its progressive approach to contemporary art. It was here that he developed a rigorous conceptual framework and deepened his engagement with the theoretical underpinnings of visual culture. His work is strongly influenced by early 20th-century Cubist pioneers such as Juan Gris and Jean Metzinger, whose fragmented forms and multifaceted perspectives informed Gill’s own visual language.
Dylan Gill’s creative practice was forged in the suburban sprawl he refers to as the “real London”—tucked far away from places like Big Ben and Piccadilly Circus that catered to bustling crowds of tourists, but no less clamorous.
Born into a large, boisterous, working class family where “you had to shout to be heard”, Gill found his voice through painting. From an early age, his art served as a meditative practice that allowed him to process the noisiness of the world around him.
Beneath London’s constant static hum of city crowds, advertisements, and news cycles, Gill began to notice a deeper web of affective exchange. He tuned in, not just to what was being said, but to the underlying emotional resonance that accompanied his encounters with everyone from mass media conglomerates to the people he met on the street.
In a practice that emerged from these experiences, Gill opens himself up to the emotional signals that vibrate just below the noise of modern life and attempts to capture their effects on canvas, quickly, while they are still fresh in his psyche. The result is a body of works that operate in the vein of empathetic impressionism, using color, form, and symbolic imagery to transform interplays of feeling into vivid surrealist portraits.
Gill’s work has been exhibited widely across Europe, including prominent shows in London and Paris, as well as internationally in Singapore and Vietnam. Based in London, he continues to produce new bodies of work from his studio, contributing to contemporary dialogues around form, feeling, and the evolving language of figuration.
EDUCATION
2002/03 - Art Foundation. Hastings College of Art
2003/05 - BA Fine Art - Hastings College of Art
2005/06 - BA Fine Art - Goldsmiths University of London
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