August 2025. OPENING SEPT 29, 6-8PM. The New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation is pleased to present It would hurt us – were we awake –, a group exhibition featuring the Season III, 2025 International Residency Artists: Jayden Ashley, Doreen Chan, Elizabeth Chang, Alessandro Di Lorenzo, Gill Gatfield, Kimin Kim, Shivani Mithbaokar, Maya Smira, Cass Yao, Giorgia Volpe, Kay Yoon, and Tony Zhao, curated by NARS Curatorial Fellow Daniela Mayer.

‍It would hurt us – were we awake – presents twelve international artists whose works navigate the mutable edge of sleep and waking life, where inner sanctuaries are unsettled by invisible architectures of external power. Shaped by today’s pervasive climate of ambient anxiety, the exhibition reflects on how sites of rest and refuge—mental, bodily, or built—are rendered precarious by elusive, often existential forces. Across media, the artists explore these fragile barriers, navigating the tension between safety, vulnerability, and the subconscious. (Daniela Mayer)

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July–September 2025. Announcing the Season III artists at the New York Artist Resdencies and Studios (NARS) Foundation in Brooklyn! This curated program brings New York and international curators, writers and critics to visit the artist studios and culminates in an exhibition organised by NARS curatorial fellow Daniela Mayer.

"Gill Gatfield’s practice spans sculpture, land art, installation, extended reality, and AI. Locating speculative futures within ancestral knowledge, she transforms ancient materials into poetic first-forms – carving matter, code, and text to elicit generative systems and permeable borders. Gatfield holds Bachelor of Laws and MFA (Hons), University of Auckland, NZ. Her work is presented in Oceania, America and Europe, in museums, biennales, and public space."

Image: Not I, 2011-2021, column, moleanos limestone, sunlight

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August 2025. HALO makes the Top 10 projects for highest audience engagement on CODAworx international platform over the Northern Hemisphere Summer 2025! "From monumental sculptures that celebrate local culture to modest installations that spark neighborhood conversations, these projects reflect the vibrant pulse of public art today. In celebrating these standout creations, we’re not just highlighting aesthetic achievements, but also the cultural dialogues and diverse offerings of our community." CODAzine August 2025 

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May 2025. Led by artist and AI researcher Gill Gatfield, a powerhouse panel debated the “AI-Equity Revolution” at the 2025 New Zealand Global Women annual convention at Te Puia, Rotorua. Joined by trailblazers Kathryn Kerner (NZ SuperFund), Alison Mau (founder Tika), and Zoe Lawton (barrister and Tika co-founder), the panel addressed AI’s break-through potential for gender equity and the role of leaders in creating AI solutions for diverse communities. Global Women draws from a wide community of thought-leadership to advance economic and social justice in Aotearoa New Zealand.

December 2024. Final touches are underway for unveiling of Asterisk, a new land art commission that looks to the stars. Created as part of a major NSW Government Westconnex transport infrastructure project, the work stands at the threshold of new parklands on the traditional lands of the Gadigal and Kameygal peoples. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek asteriskos – "little star" – and invokes ancient celestial knowledge systems and ancestral journeys guided by the stars across the land and sea. Its circular stone formations draw on diverse cultural traditions and the enduring connection between Earth and Sky. Each stone carries the deep time stories of the world's oldest continent: rock from the far West and East corners of Australia intersect a composite stone formed by the artistfrom rock recovered during tunnelling far below the site for new super-highways. On this reshaped ground, Asterisk charts a new direction in the decolonisation of space, being orientated towards Ginan – the brightest small star in the Southern Cross, recently restored on international star maps under its ancient Aboriginal star-name. A geometry of shadows echo star-maps and trace the passing of time within an open circle of setttler-heritage stone. Dating to the Triassic period and hand-hewn from local quarries for Sydney's nineteenth-century roads, these rocks now frame a celestial compass, binding past, present, and future in light and stone.

Asterisk 2020-2024
Pilbara Marble, Chillagoe Marble, Sydney Tunnel-Stone, Heritage Sandstone
11m Dia.
Public Art Project Sydney NSW

July 2024. Artist-led public activations at Brooklyn Bridge Park invite encounters and discourse about the monumental stone circle HALO, geolocated in extended reality 50m / 165ft above the East River. Presented in collaboration with the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art NYC 2024, artists, writers, coders and technologists meet to engage with this ancient stone rune as it reframes an iconic skyline, stimulating the imaginary and connecting people through digital fluidity. Drawing from ancient, natural and computational worlds, HALO brings into focus a cultural continuum – past, present, and future – shaped by capital and colonisation in the city that never sleeps.

June-July 2024. News is spreading about HALO in New York!  Discovered from Brooklyn Bridge Park on the floating pier next to the Dumbo ferry, the codified stone sculpture is being unlocked by locals and visitors who create and curate their own 'halo'. Shared and viewed through mobile phones, the suspended monument is experienced at grand scale over Manhattan in a digtal-real confluence that shifts perceptions, enchants and intrigues. HALO's reach is extending beyond the city, being livestreamed by New York City podcasters and guides to audiences online, tranmitting the live mirage via digital networks onto thousands of screens elsewhere.

May 2024. Awarded a Saas-Fee Summer Art Institute (SFSAI) scholarship, NZ artist Gill Gatfield will participate in SFSAI New York City with 25 international artists, researchers and writers. Founded in 2015 by artist and theorist Warren Neidich, the nomadic art academy runs in alternate years in Berlin and NYC with shifting programs in contemporary critical theory. “Art, Apparatus and Neural-Digital Entanglement in Cognitive Capitalism NYC 2024" maps artistic forms of resistance in order to critically engage with new neural and brain-based technologies and consider potential new forms of practical insurgency. The intensive program of seminars, deep readings, experimental workshops, and public lectures is led by an interdisciplinary faculty, in NYC 2024 comprising: Defne Ayas, Davide Balula, Suparna Choudhury, Stephanie Dinkins, Thyrza Goodeve, Lyle Ashton Harris, Isaac Julien, Liz Magic Laser, Reza Negarestani, Warren Neidich (founder/director), Alison Nguyen, Diane Severin Nguyen, Barry Schwabsky, Martha Schwendener, Mindy Seu, and Anuradha Vikram.

8 June 2024. Presenting three new exquisite glass and stone sculptures - Narcissus, Echo and Symposium, artist Gill Gatfield shares insights into these ephemeral abstract forms and their embodied ideas. The talk will canvas the sculptures' relationships with abstract, classical and feminist bodies and philosophies, and their resonance with mysticism, love psychologies, and AI. On view in the first ever survey show of Aotearoa abstract women artists, at NorthART Gallery Auckland NZ until 6 July, the public Programme and Artist Talks is supported by Chartwell Trust.