Gill Flett

In 2023 Gill attained her MA in Fine Art (with Distinction) from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, thirty three years after graduating from there with a BA (Hons) in Three-Dimensional Design.  

Her object-based sculpture aims to capture ‘brief time’: how the weathering and degradation of structures and surfaces found in our urban infrastructure can be a physical memory within the material. 

An interest in architecture is explored in making basic geometric forms, suitable for both indoor and outdoor settings.  She uses materials from the construction industry, particularly mortar which, intended only as a binding agent, becomes solid forms in its own right.  Many pieces are units, albeit each is unique, which can be displayed singly or collectively.  Some smaller forms can be wall-mounted. 

Each form, which mines this over-arching theme of time, place and memory, has variance in texture and colour.  The colour choices are usually taken from a location and becomes another element of embedded memory.  Textural qualities are equally important.  Touch is a sense nowadays excluded from most visual art, especially objects, and Gill hopes to develop work in this area.  

Several of her larger works were acquired by Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Aberdeen, in 2023. 

After graduating, Gill moved to London and now lives and works in South London. 

United Kingdom