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As Picasso once declared, “Art is a lie that makes us realise truth”
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

 

 

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.

 

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

  • 2023 December, group show at Art Basel Miami.

  • 2023 Art Jakarta, Vin Gallery booth, Indonesia.
  • 2023 September, solo show at Vin Gallery, Vietnam.
  • 2023 August, group show at Art Jakarta, Indonesia.
  • 2023 February, group show at Art Singapore, Singapore.
  • 2018 group show at London Art Fair, UK.
  • 2018 group show at Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, France.
  • 2015 display at Walnuts Leisure Centre, Orpington, UK.
  • 2015 solo show at Glades Centre, Bromley, UK.
  • 2014 group show at Art in the Park, Orpington, UK.
  • 2012 group show at Spitalfields Arts Market - London, UK.
  • 2010 group show at The Mint Gallery, Bedfordshire, UK.
  • 2009 group show at The Mint Gallery, Bedfordshire, UK.
  • 2009 group show at Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage, UK.
  • 2008 group show at Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings, UK
  • 2007 group show at Chelsfield Village Hall, Orpington, UK
  • 2007 group show at Orpington Hospital, UK.
  • 2007 group show at Ripley Art Centre, Bromley, UK.