Gill Ord

Gill Ord lives and works in London, UK. She is also a founding member of Braziers International Artist’s Workshop and Supernormal Festival. An advisor for Batroun Projects Lebanon. She has spoken internationally on artist-led projects, collaboration and artist exchange programmes. Her practice is rooted in the process of painting, Factors that inform the making are specific to place and memory. This is a practice that finds its language from landscape architecture and from the experiential.

Selected Exhibitions: 2023, Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London; 2022, Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London, Contiguous Array, Studio1.1 London (solo show); 2021, Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London; 2020, Where we are The Ambulatory, Mercers Hall, London; Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London; ING, Discerning Eye, London; As Yet Untitled, Studio1.1 London; Art Cabinet, Studio K3 Zurich, Switzerland; 2019 Companions and Furrows Studio1.1, London (solo show); 2017, Fully Awake Studio Pavilion, Glasgow; 2016, Exhange Rates Bushwick, New York; Dark Geometries, Coleman Projects, London with Nancy Miller, Emily Speed, Seth Ayyaz; Ex Roma iV, APT. London; Glaze my Cave, Studio 1.1 London; Who's afraid of red, yellow and blue with Virginia Bodman and Julian Brown, OBS Gallery, Kent; Merzbarn visit CSM UAL, London; 2015, Sotterraneo, Studio 1.1 London (solo show), Localism, MIMA, Middlesbrough.

Selected Awards and Residencies: 2019 Lijiang Studio, Yunnan, China; 2018 Joya residency, Spain; 2018 Susak Expo residency, Susak, Croatia; 2018 Cill Rialaig residency, Co Kerry, Ireland; 2017 Joya residency, Spain; 2015 Residency, Kurt Scwitters, Merzbarn, Cumbria; 2014 Abbey Fellow in Painting, British School of Rome; 2005 AIWA workshop Lebanon; 2000 Wasanii workshop, Kenya; 1990 Triangle Workshop, New York; 1984 Arts Council Residency, Hull; 1979 Hampshire Travel Award, Rome.Selected Publications: 2004 An Experiment with Time, catalogue essays by Michael Keenan and Sacha Craddock; 1996 Third Text, Spring issue, Interferences, Nicola Gray; 1996 Damn Fine Art, Cassell, Cherry Smyth.

© Gill Ord. Photo: Soliloquy (Images Doc).