Gill Rocca’s recent work explores ideas of liminal spaces, thresholds between the mundane and the extraordinary. The landscapes draw upon invention as much as observation to present an ambiguous and elusive sense of reality at a point of transformation, often where the familiar is rendered strangely unfamiliar. These illusionary scenes,  the familiar anonymity of woodland, still lakes, deserted roads, short-cuts and paths through, once entered, attempt to assimilate themselves into the viewer’s own memories of places both real and imagined.

Education

1996MA Fine Art (Dist.)
Winchester School of Art, Barcelona and UK 1994BA (Hons) Fine Art
Leeds University

awards

1998Arts Council North West Exhibition Award

collections

2010The Royal Bank of Canada 2006Earls Court Olympia London 2004British Airways 2003McGraw Hill London

features

2010Art of England Magazine 2008Sunday Times Style Magazine 2008Irish Times on Sunday 2008St Georges Magazine 2008Galleries Magazine 2007Living Etc Magazine 2006House and Garden Magazine 2006Born Equal, Dominic Savage BBC Film 2005Sensitive Skin, Hugo Blick BBC 2004Londons Hottest Properties, LWT 2003Are investors switching to art? The Daily Telegraph 1998Galleries Magazine 1998Guardian Guide