Gill Gatfield

Gill Gatfield

Gill Gatfield (b. 1963) lives in Whangaparāoa. She completed a Master of Fine Arts (Hons) in 2004 and Bachelor of Laws in 1988 from University of Auckland. Her abstract sculptures and installations address ancestral intelligence and speculative futures, in real and virtual worlds.

She was artist in residence at NARS Foundation New York 2025, Foreign Objekt 2024–25, Saas-Fee Art Institute NYC 2024, Poison Creek 2023–24, Ionion Center Greece 2023, Vermont Studio Centre USA 2019, and KØN Museum Denmark 2015. Her work is exhibited internationally, including at Sculpture by the Sea, Venice Art Biennale 2022 European Cultural Centre, Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, UNESCO Geopark Ionion Islands, and Venice Architecture Biennale 2018.

Gill has public sculptures in Auckland and Sydney. She created the virtual monument HALO for Wellington Sculpture Trust 40th Anniversary, presented also at Waitangi and New York.