Will Gill

Quick Facts

Full Name	Will Gill
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Jul 5, 1968(1968-07-05)
Age	56
Birthplace	Ottawa
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Cancer

Will Gill Biography

Will Gill is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on July 5, 1968 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

After an inspirational journey around the Avalon Peninsula in 1996, Will Gill decided to move to St. John’s, Newfoundland, where he was soon offered an opportunity to work as an apprentice at the bronze casting foundry located at the Boreal Sculpture Park and Garden Foundry, run by sculptor Luben Boykov and environmentalist John Evans. “‘There was something about the people and place when I came here that seemed just perfect for the way I am, the way I like to live,’ he says. ‘The temperament of the people, the generosity and so on. And it was that that made me think right away: this is it. I fell in love right away.'” He has lived in St. John’s ever since.

“Interestingly, Gill never cuts a tree for his sculptures; instead, he recycles and reclaims fallen trees and dead wood that he finds in the forest or salvages from building demolition sites. An example of such recycling is the wood coming from the infamous Mount Cashel orphanage ground. The main building was levelled four years ago, many years after the scandal of sexual and physical child-abuses by Christian Brothers. Trees were also cut down to put up a supermarket. The maple the artist recovered from the site is found in his work titled Workhorse (1998), permanently installed at the Boreal Sculpture Park in St. John’s. Hanging from the maple beam are some 500 rectangular pieces of birch on bronze rods. While the birch and bronze elements reflect each other by their similarity in size and shape, these two parts of the sculpture present opposing qualities. The marks left by the chainsaw stand as witness of the artist’s intentions while conferring roughness, solidity, and strength to the piece. In contrast, the mirror image hung on bronze rods that is animated when the wind blows is delicate and lyrical in feeling.”

Will Gill Net Worth

Will Gill is one of the richest Artist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Will Gill 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Christopher William “Will” Gill, BFA (born July 5, 1968) is a Canadian contemporary artist known for his wide-ranging works in sculpture, painting, photography and video. Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1991 from Mount Allison University, where he studied sculpture and printmaking. In 1997 he moved to St. John’s, Newfoundland. “Some of Gill’s notable works have drawn upon the Newfoundland landscape. In the 2009 performance Cape Spear, he tossed fibreglass-encased glow sticks off of the easternmost point of North America using a catapult.” “The 2009 installation Bareneed is a replica of a cast-iron bathtub that Gill saw on the bottom of the ocean floor while sea-kayaking near the titular coastal community (the artist himself has noted that the St. John’s setting has been key to his art production).” Gill was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2004 and 2006. In March 2013, Gill was selected from a group of 31 artists to create an indoor public art installation in the lobby of a new office building in St. John’s, set to open in the spring of 2014 – the first private juried art commission in the province awarded to a local artist. From June to November 2013 he exhibited along with artist Peter Wilkins as part of an official Collateral Project at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

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In his haunting installation, High Water, at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche 2012, “ghostly objects float on the surface of a small pond in the shadow of Roy Thompson Hall, like lost possessions after a disaster – a baby onesie, a bicycle, a gas canister”. Gill then captured the eerie scene in series of photographs. Bicycle/Leaf (2013) is one such image.

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In 2014, 351 Water Street, a new office tower in downtown St. John’s, Newfoundland, was opened. It features Gill’s Black Island Punt (2014) on permanent display in the lobby. Gill’s proposal for a full-sized stained-glass filled traditional wooden fishing vessel was one of 31 submissions from qualified artists and artistic groups from all around the world, and was the first private juried art commission in the province, valued at $100,000, awarded to a local artist. Gill worked with master boatbuilder Jerome Canning on the piece, which was inspired by the original Black Island Punt crafted by fisherman John Dorey in Notre Dame Bay in the 1950s. “The goal was to create an effect that would be at once magical, wondrous and filled with life” Gill says. “I also like the idea of trying to show the inner spirit or life force in things. So several years ago I began to work with light in my work, whether it was emanating out from sculpture, or being reflected off its surface.” “I have always liked the structure of things, their internal armature or skeleton. Is there anything more beautiful than the structure of a boat?” he says.