Gill is an elected member of the Society of Scottish Artists and lives and works from her studio in Edinburgh. She has had work selected for many prestigious exhibitions and you will find her work in collections worldwide including that of one of the worlds foremost collectors, the Duke of Buccleuch.
Gill is on the Society of Scottish Artists council and is the satellite co-ordinator for the whole of Scotland. She is very active in Scottish Arts.
Statement
“I have developed a unique technique mixing beeswax with highly detailed pencil drawing and layers of metal and other precious, elemental materials.
This gives the figures I draw a sculptural feel, as though they are carved in wood and fixed in time.
I like to feel that using this way of working allows for the layering of emotion and meaning into my carefully crafted compositions.
I always use the human form but these are not portraits, instead they reflect our own internal worlds.”
Biography
Selected Awards & Commissions
- Commissioned by SSA to respond to a Rodin sculpture of Victor Hugo for their “130 years” exhibition. The piece was hung next to the Rodin.
- Residency at Marchmont House, March 2021
- Awarded best exhibitor stand at Borders Art Fair 2019
- Creative Scotland Visual Artists Award. 2010/11. Migraine Project.
- Awards For All and Eccles and Leitholm Primary School. 2006/7 Commission to build a sculpture for the school grounds.
- Art Shape and East Glos NHS Trust. 1996 Commissioned to build a temporary sculpture for Imperial Gardens Cheltenham for the duration of the Literature festival. ‘The Storytellers’
- East Glos NHS Trust. 1995 Commissioned to produce twelve permanent artworks for a new mental health hospital.
Selected Exhibitions
- Society of Scottish Artists 125th Annual Exhibition, MacLauren Galleries, Ayr, November 2023
- Society of Scottish Artists 124th Annual Exhibition, RSA Galleries, Edinburgh, November 2022
- Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, RSA Galleries, Edinburgh, May 2022
- Society of Scottish Artists 123rd Annual Exhibition, RSA Galleries, Edinburgh, November 2021
- Everywoman Bienniel, London 2021
- Scottish Drawing Competition, Paisley Art Institute, 2021
- ING Discerning Eye exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, November 2020
- Borders Art Fair 2018 and 19 and 20
- Glasgow Art Fair 2019
- Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts Open Exhibition at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 2017
- Arusha Gallery, Gill Walton, Peter Hallam and Chris Hall, August 2017
Solo exhibition
‘A Butterfly Collection’, Axiom Centre for Contemporary Art, Cheltenham, April 1997.
Lecturing experience
Fine Art Lecturer for Berwick Educational Association and Berwick Visual Arts providing lectures and wrkshops to go alongside the Exhibition programme 2015 to 2021.
Founder of Allanbank Arts, an art centre in the Scottish Borders which she ran from 2011 until 2017.
Part time lecturer at Worcester College of Art, Stroud College of Art and Borders College. She was also an artist in residence for Gloucestershire psychiatric services and delivered art groups to mental health patients for seven years.
Associations
- Member of the Scottish Artist’s Union
- Professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists
- Member of Visual Arts Scotland
Speaking
Sattelite associate 4x4x4 presentation for SSA
PechaKuchas for Berwick Creative Guild and The Creative Arts Business Network.
Gill Walton SSA 