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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 explores the ongoing consequences of how we live — the subtle shifts, fractures, and quiet impacts that ripple through both the natural world and our inner worlds. While the word often carries a negative connotation, Gillian’s work reveals the full spectrum of what unfolds: unease, beauty, joy, contentment, and the possibility of restoration. Through layered marks, text fragments, and shifting forms, she traces how meaning changes as the world around us changes — and how noticing these small shifts can open a gentler, more honest way of being.
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
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.
