Lucy Gill’s practice is rooted in sculpture and alternative textile production. They use sustainable and regenerative materials to create work that embraces reuse, transformation, and decay. Through delicate fruit leather sculptures, edible work, performance, cast bronze, and
self-made tools, Gill calls attention to the products we ingest and the mechanisms that surround them.
Gill collaborates with local grocery stores to repurpose fruits and vegetables that would
otherwise go to waste by transforming them into fruit leather. Their slow processes of dehydration suspend food products between life and death. By preserving and transforming these rotting fruits and vegetables, they connect ideas of sustenance and nourishment to those of waste and decay. Gill uses self-made tools in bronze, allowing moments of contact with their body and the fruit leather to alter the surfaces. These serve as both functional objects and recreations/adaptations of tools used during various stages of a food item’s lifecycle. The contrasts inherent to the work create constant movement between ephemerality and permanence, allowing Gill to explore widely varied rates of transformation and deterioration, and diverse time scales.
Lucy Gill is a visual artist from unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories
(Vancouver), now based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal). They hold a BA in Sculpture and Art History from Concordia University, as well as a Diploma in Fine Arts from Langara College. Gill’s work has been presented in numerous group exhibitions and public art events in Montréal, including Embodied Urgencies at FOFA Gallery (2024) and Fresh Paint / New Construction 19th Edition at Art Mûr (2023). Their curatorial projects include Filaments, hosted at Produit Rien (2025), and Goldenrod, at Ateliers Belleville (2024). In September 2025 they will attend the Arteles Residency in Finland.
