Madge Gill
1882-1961 (UNITED KINGDOM)
Almost forgotten by history, the now legendary Madge Gill was a British medium and healer whose spirit guide - Myrninerest – authored the pale faces, swirling patterns and cryptic dialogue of a vast and enigmatic channel. Gill’s prolific mission included postcards, portraits and vast panoramic calicos of figurations, inscriptions and contra-symmetries.
Gill’s work is included in the collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, and Whitworth Museum, Manchester. Exhibitions include Parallel Visions at LACMA, Los Angeles (1992), Outsiders at Hayward Gallery, London (1979), Floral Fantasies at the Wilhelm Hack Museum (2019), and Brutal Beauty at Barbican, London (2021).
Gill’s largest known work is currently on display in Foreigners Everywhere at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
Art Brut, Grand Palais / Centre Pompidou (Paris), 2025
Delusions of Grandeur, Wallace Collection (London), 2025
Foreigners Everywhere, La Biennale di Venezia (Venice), 2024
The Guided Hand: Josefà Tolra / Madge Gill, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Barcelona), 2023
Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty, Barbican (London), 2021
Not Without My Ghosts, Drawing Room (London), 2020
Floral Fantasies Between Symbolism and Outsider Art, Wilhelm Hack Museum (Ludwigshafen), 2019
Flying High, Kunstforum Wien (Vienna), 2019
Exhibition #7, The Museum of Everything, Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania), 2017/18
Art Brut, American Folk Art Museum (New York), 2015
Entrée des Médiums, Victor Hugo Museum (Paris), 2012
Exhibition #1, The Museum of Everything (London), 2009/10
Inner Worlds Outside, Whitechapel Gallery (London), 2006
Art Spirite, Halle St Pierre (Paris), 1999
Parallel Visions, Los Angeles Museum of Art (Los Angeles), 1992
European Outsiders, Rosa Esman Gallery (New York), 1986
Outsiders, Hayward Gallery (London), 1979
The Guided Hand, Grosvenor Gallery (London), 1968
Artist Aid Russia, Wallace Collection (London), 1942
East End Academy, Whitechapel Gallery (London), 1932/47
Not Without My Ghosts: Artist as Medium, Drawing Room London, 2020
Madge Gill, Myrninerest Exhibition Catalogue, Rough Trade Books, 2019
The Art & Spirit of Madge Gill, Light Magazine, The College of Psychic Studies, 2019
Art & Mind (film), Amelie Raelec, ICA, 2019
Madge Gill, Jeanneret, Marie-Helene, Ides Calendes, 2017
Madge Gill (Polychrome), Raw Vision Outsider Art Sourcebook First Edition, 2002
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