Gill Wilson at 100% Design - 11 September 2007

Gill Wilson creates pure, environmentally sustainable art works using Japanese papermaking techniques which have a tradition spanning many centuries. Known as Washi, it is a process which results in a natural material of great purity. The resulting artworks borrow many themes from the Washi process and its eastern traditions, including a respect for ecology and a striving for purity and simplicity. The paper is made exclusively from natural plant fibre, utilising a range of material including flax, yucca and straw.

The work is intended for contemporary interiors and it has been successfully installed in a range of prestigious venues. The work is unique - highly textural, with a wide and subtle colour range based upon a strong design philosophy of purity and quality.

 

     

 

Gill Wilson’s work draws on the fundamental geometry of the natural world. She has worked with plant fibre pulps for the last 30 years after an inspirational study tour to Japan.  Since then she has visited and formed relationships with other papermakers in Europe, Canada, and the USA and most recently during a three-month study tour in India.

Her work is characterised by an innovative manipulation of the material – a malleable medium which can be liquid enough to be spayed yet dense enough to be cast. Her original training in Japan taught her to work with the essential simplicity of the medium with the qualities of aesthetic purity and ecological sustainability. 

Gill’s passion for contemporary interior space informs her work and seeks to address the essential preoccupations of 21st century living. The language that she employs has always been of the simplest and most direct kind; faithful to what she feels is her own very particular form of art

You can see Gill Wilson’s work on stand E85 at 100% Design, Earl’s Court, London between 20 – 23 September 2007