March 2026. The prestigious 2026 National Small Sculpture Prize was awarded to Gill Gatfield for her work Tablet. Presented by Perpetual Guardian, the premier award was announced at the exhibition opening event at Waiheke Art Gallery on Friday, 27 March. Selector and judge Deborah McCormick described the award winning sculpture:

‘Compact in scale yet architectonic in structure, Gatfield’s work brings stone, metal, code and virtual apparition into a single sculptural system. It's three elements: stone square, copper cube, and gold code unlock ideas around the day-to-day technology of a tablet, archive and screen imbued in the traditional sculptural material of Carrara marble. The inscribed Fibonacci-derived gold barcode lures us to seek out its meaning and decipher its code. The cooper cube beneath it is not just a pedestal but an open space to allow volume to move around the sculpture.’ – Deb McCormick

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March 2026. Gill Gatfield's miniature marble and mixed reality sculpture Tablet is selected for the 13th Small Sculpture Prize exhibition by juror Deborah McCormick, UAP partner and previous Director of SCAPE Public Art. Hosted by Waiheke Art Gallery with generous support from Perpetual Guardian, the awards are a significant event in New Zealand's visual arts calendar. The awards exhibition showcases works from across Aotearoa and promotes excellence in art. On view at Waiheke Art Gallery from 27 March to 17 May 2026.

An in-depth review of Gill Gatfield’s New York installation Habeas Corpus by neuroaesthetics scholar Tamar Torrance is featured in CLOT Magazine, a hub for critical discourse at intersections of art, science, and technology. Torrance’s review traces how Habeas Corpus merges deep time and ancestral consciousness with AI and AR systems, foregrounding the body as both subject and sensor. Mapping Gatfield’s choreography of minimalism and code, the text reflects on her expanded sculptural field where matter, memory, and machine interlock in an inseparable world-self.

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Sept. 2025. Hosted by CODAworx and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in Washington DC, the international CODAsummit Art+Tech 2025 brought together artists, curators, commissioners, and technologists to discuss art and technology innovation in the public realm. Gill Gatfield presented the transformational framework: AI²AR – combining Ancestral Intelligence and AI (AI²) with Augmented Reality (AR) to shape new dimensions in sculpture. This creative direction centres materials, instincts, memories, and senses as conduits between past and future, formulating digital-physical art encounters that empower through participation. Presented in the architecturally renown Kogood Cradle at the Arena Stage D.C., Gatfield's Artist Showcase was sponsored by GCI General Glass International.

Sept 2025. Sculpture magazine – an international journal dedicated to the critique of contemporary sculpture – features a review of Gill Gatfield’s New York installation HABEAS CORPUS by art critic Dina Jezdic. Reflecting on the artist’s site-responsive work, the review explores how the material, ephemeral and temporal dimensions of her digital-physical practice develop tensions that stir empathy, memory, and resistance.

‘Set against the collapsing tides of the Anthropocene, Aotearoa New Zealand artist Gill Gatfield’s current installation brings the urgency of habeas corpus to New York City, a place long mythologized as a refuge, but also pulsing at the crossroads of data, capital, and control. ...' 

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Aug-Sept 2025. At NARS Foundation in Brooklyn New York, Habeas Corpus posits the ancient writ “you have the body” as scaffold and allegory, transforming a white room into a contested space of confinement and liberty. Woven diaper walls, storied stones and ancient woods engage real and virtual bodies which vacillate as totem and text-figure, spirit and human, object and code; binding viewer and spectacle. This standalone site-responsive installation is presented by NARS Foundation in the International Residency Exhibition Season III curated by Daniela Mayer.

Sept. 2025. Convened by curator Daniela Mayer for NARS Foundation public program, the discussion panel 'It’s Prudenter – to Dream – A Conversation on Sociopolitical Art in a Post-Woke Landscape' examines how engaged artistic practices continue to resist, adapt, and thrive in shifting geopolitical conditions. Featuring artists Doreen Chan, Elizabeth Chang, Gill Gatfield, and Maya Smira, the panel explore dreaming as disruptive creative practice with reference to their work in the Emily Dickinson inspired exhibition It would hurt us – were we awake –, at NARS Foundation.

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August 2025. The New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation presents It would hurt us – were we awake –, a group exhibition curated by NARS Curatorial Fellow Daniela Mayer, featuring 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,.

Developed in coversation during the three month residency, artworks by 12 international artists 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.

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July–September 2025. Announcing the Season III artists at the New York Artist Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation in Brooklyn! The curated program brings New York-based and international curators, writers and critics to visit the artist's 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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