Lucy Gill is an interdisciplinary artist, working primarily in sculpture and performance, who privileges materiality, process, and labor in their practice. Their work often combines references to agriculture, the body, and the environment, demonstrating their interconnectedness and inseparability. They explore these themes by creating fruit leather textiles from dehydrated fruits and vegetables, as well as through sculptures cast in bronze. The contrast between these materials creates a constant movement between ephemerality and permanence, allowing the artist to explore diverse time scales and tensions between preservation, deterioration, and decay. Their works slip between sculptural explorations of organic materiality and transformation, and performative acts of returning the material to the earth or asking viewers to consume it.
The artist is able to extend the once raw and decaying fruit/vegetable’s lifespan by reshaping them into material that is visually and texturally similar to animal hides, or skin. This practice of dehydration is labour-intensive and process-driven. The leathers hold traces from their past forms, through their distinct scent and taste, seed imprints, and lasting vegetable fibres. Through perceptible and conceptual connectors to our own bodies and precarities, they suggest we are not so separate from the fruit they work with, nor from the environment and earth that the fruit originates from. Their work focuses on reconnection and return to nature over permanence, pervasiveness, and commodification, allowing them to continually explore our ecological connection and kinship with the more-than-human world.
Lucy Gill is an emerging interdisciplinary artist and curator from unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories (Vancouver) and is now based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal). They use sustainable and compostable materials to create sculptures that embrace reuse, transformation, and decay. Gill’s work been exhibited in Montréal, most recently in CORED, a duo-exhibition with Josh Jensen at Produit Rien (2026), as well as Art Volt Collection Exhibition at FoFA Gallery (2025) and Ground Level, First Floor, Emporium Builders Supplies (2025). Their work will be included in the Art Volt booth at Foire Plural in April 2026 and in a group exhibition at CIRCA Art Actuel in May 2026.
