Gallery
Gill has a fine arts background and works mainly in paint, inks and collage. Her larger pieces incorporate dyes and paint sticks on fabric for bigger venues. She is inspired by the human figure and by natural forms in creation, particularly how these can reveal something fresh about who God is when we know how to really see.
This selection gives an overview of the breadth of her work over the past 15 years. Smaller images often incorporate inks and collage whereas the larger pieces, often intended for large church interiors, are done on fabrics of different textures and density using Procion dyes which are vibrant and colour fast.
This selection gives an overview of the breadth of her work over the past 15 years. Smaller images often incorporate inks and collage whereas the larger pieces, often intended for large church interiors, are done on fabrics of different textures and density using Procion dyes which are vibrant and colour fast.
"Growing Together" November 2021
A hand-dyed and printed tablecloth created in response to the Hazelnut Community Farm in Bristol which is part of a touring exhibition to be hosted by churches or other organisations in 2022 with full engagement and resource materials. Click on the link for further information about The Creation Project.
www.hazelnutcommunityfarm.com/creationproject
www.hazelnutcommunityfarm.com/creationproject
Eclat, displayed at The Art of Mary exhibition, Southwell Minster in January 2016As quoted in an article Contemporary Marian Visions by Pat Ashworth in The Church Times, "Gill Sakakini's Mary...is an athletic, muscular girl, knees bent, arms outstretched, almost flying in abandon as she hears the news" (of the annunciation).
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From the 8 part series, St Patrick’s Breastplate Prayer, Vancouver, Canada
These textile pieces using dye and oil based paint sticks were created in Vancouver, Canada and reflect a visual consideration of the prepositions contained in the prayer. They ask, “Where am I in relation to Christ in this image”? These are not static pieces but may be physically interacted with and permit an embodied response to the question.
From the series, The Big Story, Basingstoke, England
These large pieces highlight some of the central events of the Christian story and were created on heavy weave fabric in a combination of fabric dye and paint with wax resist. Each one was introduced with the corresponding sermon series and built up a big picture which told the story in its own way.