Exhibitions

Gillian Brent makes three-dimensional structures that describe space, indicate movement and suggest human interaction. Her practice has changed in emphasis over the last few years, becoming installation based rather than sculpture, utilising a variety of materials for their metaphorical as well as physical qualities.

Gillian's work is a direct response to the place where it is seen, investigating its architecture, environment and how people use the space. She creates installations that react to these different aspects, exploring the notion of cause and effect and interrupting the spatial layout. The resulting works are tectonic anomalies that appear to have a structural or functional purpose but are in fact anti-function. Despite this, they are not apparently decorative; they use the space as an integral part, inhabiting and affecting it. The audience interacts with the installation, moving around within it, reassessing the space and its effect on their intuitive behaviour.

Solo shows

2006 Outlook, The Architecture Centre, Bristol.
Derby Museum & Art Gallery
Pickford's House, Derby.
2004 Surface tension, Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire.
2001 Standing ground, Wysing Arts, Cambridge.
- Timesight, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe.
2000 Building sight, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery.
1999 New Steel Sculpture, Rufford Craft Centre, Notts.
- Steel Placement, Sanctuary Courtyard, Upper Chapel, Sheffield.
1998 Household Names, Stockport Art Gallery.
1994 Wall-based sculpture, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax.
1993 Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucestershire.
1990 Woodlands Art Gallery, London.
1988 Worcester City Art Gallery.

Selected group shows

2002/03/04/05/07 Newby Hall Sculpture Park, North Yorkshire.
2004 Secret Garden, Winter Gardens, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield.
2003-04 Drawn from Nature, Exbury Gardens, Hants.
2003 Art in the Garden 4, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arbouretum, Hants.
- Art Outside, The Savill Gardens, Windsor.
2000 Sampled, Rotherham Art Gallery.
1999 Created Space, Atrium Gallery, London.
- Inside Out, Art.Co, Leeds.
1998 Present Space, two person show with Monair Hyman, Wrexham Arts Centre.
- House Room, Ruskin Craft Gallery, Sheffield.
1996 Outer Limits, two person sculpture show,
Mid Pennine Gallery, Burnley.
- Engineering Art, Swan Hunter Shipyard, Wallsend.
1994 Furniture, Fun and Fantasy, Mid Pennine Arts, Burnley.
1993 Metal Sculpture, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham.
1992 Steel, Image and Industry, Untitled Gallery, Sheffield.
1990 Movement, Piece Hall Art Gallery, Halifax.
1989 Forging Ahead, Rufford Craft Centre, Notts.
- New Art in Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
1984 - 1985 Have You Seen Sculpture From The Body?,
Tate Gallery, London and toured.
1983 Woodlands Art Gallery.