bio

Through my art, I hope to invite the viewer into presence and spark a simultaneous awareness of the inner self and the outer world.

Gillian is an artist based in Toronto, Canada (originally from the Pacific Northwest). Her creative process - which includes weaving, writing, drawing, and performance - is largely informed by her relationship with place, desire and ecstatic states. Her work explores themes of spiritual eroticism and magical transformation through presence and intuition. The core motivation and theme of her work is interrelationship. She feels her work is a response to the world she inhabits, one that often takes the form of a love letter.

Gillian's creative work more broadly is generated by ongoing relationship with and education in somatics, ecology, animism, mythology/folklore, performance, and philosophy.