From the Lion’s Den
Will Gill                         

October 14 – November 18, 2023

Opening: Saturday October 21, 1 to 4pm

Hours: Saturdays 1 to 4pm or by appointment

The photographic series follows an unidentified trio in their journey to start over. The photographs were shot on the open ocean, as well as in and around a cove called Lion’s Den on Fogo Island, in a punt handmade by local boatbuilder Frank Combden. Lion’s Den is a sheltered cove which was once home to a community of 50 or so people and was voluntarily resettled in the 1950s. The series is a vignette about the search for grounding, migration and the unknown. The series was completed during a residency on Fogo Island over a two year period. These photos were taken in the summer of 2018. 

Will Gill earned a BFA From Mount Allison University in 1991. He was named to the long-list of the Sobey Art Award on three occasions and in 2023, won the inaugural Theordore Art Prize. Career highlights include participation in Toronto’s Nuit Blanche (2012), a collateral exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), The Arctic Circle Artist Residency (2014), Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival in Toronto (2017), Fogo Island Arts Residency (2017/2018) and the Bonavista Biennale (2017, 2021). His work is in many public, private and corporate collections and has been supported generously by Arts NL and Canada Council for the Arts. He lives in St John’s, Newfoundland.

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Left image: Transcending Together, Archival ink on Ultra Smooth Hahnemühle Paper, 18" x 27", 2018