Artist Statement

Gigi is a multidisciplinary sculptor, photographer and printmaker. Her grounding in formal sculpture skills at Heatherleys School of Fine Art, London, included drawing and printmaking. She has since been under the tutelage of the late Jane McAdam Freud, low relief modelling; Joletta Thorburn, Cyanotype printing and Ian Ward, master stonemason, hand carving. 

She has developed experimental techniques using optics, light and natural materials to create her sculptures and photography based on juxtapositions between contemporary stories and myths.

Her astronomical series of work incorporates stone carving, drawing, photography and cyanotype printing, It encompasses both natural and built instruments showing the effects of the Sun shadow casting from prehistory through to the present day.

Gigi’s work examines the archaeology of human habitation from Neolithic to the present day. She uses early land maps and scientific instruments both for their sculptural qualities as well as for investigating how we have created artificial codes to make sense of our place within the world we actually see. The print work and sculpture reveal how the early seas of Dorset are transformed over time to become rolling escarpments where marine fossils and Iron Age finds mingle in the landscape - the low relief and impresssions trace the passage and culture of the millions of people that have created our present topology. 

She carves using stone and plaster; collects natural pigments to rub into linen or work into prints; fashions metal and found objects into maquettes or combined with other materials for sculptures as are wood and paper.

She has exhibited widely throughout the UK, notably at the German Embassy in London, Sotheby’s London and the Dorset Museum & Art Gallery.