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Gillian Richards An artist working with language and material to navigate the tensions of contemporary life — moving between quiet noticing and sharp critique, between tenderness, anger, lament, and play — tracing how our words and actions shape, distort, and reveal the world around us.
Ramifications traces the consequences of how we live, tracking the shifts, fractures, and deep impacts rippling through nature and our inner worlds. Moving beyond negative connotations, the work reveals how beauty grows from unease, joy disrupts our heavy realities, and restoration rises within the fractures. Against these structural weights sits an active defiance—linguistic play, non-conformity, and fragments of time where we reclaim ourselves. Through layered marks and shifting forms, the work strips away illusion to reveal our absolute and inescapable interdependence.
Artist’s Intent
I work within the tension between what holds and what slips away. Each piece is a negotiation between clarity and distortion — shaped as much by wrestling as resolution, as meaning unravels and reforms.
Carrying babies and hope, 2020 – Gillian Richards
I’m easing my way back into the studio after losing my mother.
Grief has reshaped my days in ways I didn’t expect, and even finding words has felt heavy.
Small tasks — building this site, tracing family lines, touching my work lightly — are helping me return.
My next piece will be a biographical portrait of her, not in likeness but in essence.
This is where I begin again.
