Madge Gill
1882-1961, UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SPIRIT, ARE YOU THERE? - THE PAINTERS OF THE BEYOND, Musée Maillol (Paris) 2020
Ladies brut, Galerie Gugging (Klosterneuburg) 2020
Not Without My Ghosts: Artist as Medium, Drawing Room (London) 2020
Art & Spirit: Visions of Wonder Exhibition, College of Psychic Studies (London) 2019
Floral Fantasies between symbolism & Outsider art, Wilhelm Hack Museum (Ludwigshafen am Rhein) 2019
ALMA Mediums & Visionaries,Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma (Palma) 2019
Flying High: Women artists of Art Brut, Kunstforum Wien (Wien) 2019
Art Brut in America: The incursion of Dubuffet, American Folk Art Museum (New York) 2015
Madge Gill: Medium & Visionary, Orleans House Gallery (London) 2013
Exhibition #1, The Museum of Everything (London) 2009
British Outsider Art, Halle Saint Pierre (Paris) 2008
Inner Worlds Outside, Whitechapel Gallery (London) 2006
L'art Spirite, Collection de l'art brut (Lausanne) 2005
Art Unsolved, The Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin) 1998
Outsiders, Hayward Gallery (London) 1979
LEGEND WOULD SUGGEST THAT GILL WAS A MEDIUM WHO DID NOT SEE HERSELF AS AN ARTIST. YET THIS NOW-LEGENDARY ILLUSTRATOR ALWAYS INTENDED HER WORK TO BE APPRECIATED, AND PARTICIPATED IN NUMEROUS EXHIBITIONS IN LONDON’S EAST END AND BEYOND. THE ESSENCE OF GILL’S PRACTICE LAY IN THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF HER SPIRIT GUIDE, MYRINEREST, WHOSE PRESENCE WAS CHANNELLED THROUGH THE PALE FACES, SWIRLING PATTERNS AND CRYPTIC DIALOGUE OF GILL’S VAST AND ENIGMATIC OEUVRE.
Not Without My Ghosts: Artist as medium, Drawing Room London, 2020
Madge Gill, Myrninerest Exhibition Catalogue, Rough Trade Books, 2019
The Art & Spirit of Madge Gill, Light Magazine, The College of Psychic Studies, 2019
Art & mind (film), Amelie Raelec, ICA, 2019
Jeanneret, Marie-Helene, Madge Gill, Ides Calendes, 2017
Madge Gill (Polychrome), Raw Vision Outsider Art Sourcebook First Edition, 2002