June 2025. New York based NARS Foundation announces Season III, 2025 International Residency Artist Gill Gatfield (New Zealand):

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 a Bachelor of Laws and MFA (Hons), University of Auckland, and exhibits internationally.

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

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 a new sculpture commission, a land art work referencing the stars. Part of a major transport infrastructure project developed by NSW Government and Westconnex, Asterisk is a placeholder at an entrance to new parklands on traditional Gadigal and Kameygal lands. Named after the Ancient Greek word asteriskos, meaning little star), Asterisk refers to ancient celestial knowledge systems and ancestral journeys led by the stars across the land and sea. Its circular stone formations relate to diverse cultural traditions and the spiritual ties between Earth and Sky. Each stone holds the stories of the oldest continent on Earth. Rock from the far West and East corners of Australia are intersected by a composite stone the artist has made from rock recovered from tunnelling deep below the sculpture site for new super-highways. On this resculpted earth, the artwork marks a new direction in the decolonisation of space. Asterisk is orientated towards Ginan, the brightest small star in the Southern Cross which was recently officially given its ancient Aboriginal astronomy star-name on international star maps. A geometry of shadows, like star-maps, track the passage of time inside an open circle of setttler heritage stone. Dating to the Triassic period and hand-hewn from local quarries, these blocks once lined nineteenth century Sydney roads.

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.

Feb-Nov. 2024. A 10 month expanded artistic research residency with FOREIGN OBJEKT, an international network and ecosystem, examines art and philosophy in the AI era. The research group of artists, philosophers, scientists and engineers collaborate on projects expanding on the framework: "Deep Objekt [0]: Agency at the Computational Turn" developed by philosopher Reza Negarestani and residency curator Sepideh Majidi. Founded in 2019, Foreign Objekt promotes interdisciplinary discourse on the transformative potential and future for human and artificial intelligence. Gill Gatfield’s residency research formulates a new rubric: RADICAL MONUMENTS, investigating the transmission of intelligence between human and the AI-AR monument, the creative potential of this art-form, and the implications for diverse, dynamic and democratic public space.

Resident research and artistic projects are presented at Space Gallery Berkley USA, New Art City Virtual, Foreign Objekt and Posthuman Art Laboratory. Deep Objekt 2024 residency advisors and faculty include:  Sepideh Majidi, Maure Coise, Reza Negarestani, Marek Poliks, Roberto Alonso Trillo, Keith Tilford, Borna Radnik, and invited guests.

May 2024. At the opening plenary of the First International Scientific & Practical Conference "European Future", Gill Gatfield presents ‘A Philosophy of Harmony in Abstraction – Sculpting Virtual and Real Worlds’.  The interdisciplinary forum hosted by Kherson National Technical University is convened by philosopher Professor Halyna Berehova for philosophers, scientists, and scholars from Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, France, Canada and USA to examine contemporary philosophical, educational and communication problems across disciplines, including politics, technology and AI. Gill Gatfield's presentation expands on her 2022 project UNITY in the 59th Venice Biennale collateral exhibition 'Personal Structures' proposing ephemeral and virtual aesthetics as sites of consciousness and agency.

7 May-6 July 2024. ABSTRAXT ABSTRAXT, a survey show of Aotearoa New Zealand women artists at NorthArt Gallery NZ, features three new sculptures by Gill Gatfield – Narcissus, Echo and Symposium. Curated by director Jessica Pearless, this first ever large scale exhibition of contemporary abstraction by NZ women artists charts a constellation of the field today, examining the artistic processes and methodologies employed by leading and emerging artists across cultural and aesthetic perspectives. Exhibition catalogue includes essays by Jesssica Pearless and Nina Dyer.