Gillian Appleby

Gillian's body of work stems from sourced, everyday photographs and departs into a blend of fact and fiction.

Her ongoing work seeks to create tensions between illustrative and material investigations around the figure and identity.

Works can involve the photograph as the starting point but frequently, the arrival can be a distant departure from this.

Often the works are delayed impressions through a kind of imagery absorption and osmosis. A kind of storytelling.

Investigations of material and illusion through approximation and re-working to create a haziness and perspective.

Gillian lives in Auckland and works out of her studio based at the Corbans art centre.