GILL ALLDERMAN

During Covid, Gill curated a body of work that dances around the mundane and the magical of everyday domestic surfaces.Cook, sew, bake, decorate - reinvent, reimagine, reminisce, redo, let go - smell, see, engage.
Pieces that scatter around our everyday lives - that hold us - that mend us- that clothe us.
A salutation and celebration of life’s tapestry of care, of finding purpose in the mundane and usefulness in domestic surfaces.

AVAILABLE WORKS

Whrere Strangers Meet in Water #4

Mixed media on canvas with wax seal.

Framed Dyptich

156 x 205 cm

R 55 000

WHERE STRANGERS FIND WATER

speaks to the universal condition of displacement and transformation.

It evokes the tension between escape and arrival, a journey not only across physical borders but also through the inner landscapes of identity and belonging. For me this body of work mirrors the experience of finding sanctuary in the unknown, about entering spaces of vulnerability, where the foreign and the familiar converge. The water becomes a shared holding space, a place of solace and solidarity.

These works explore the crossing of boundaries, fleeing familiar ground, and finding solace - in the movement of water. They speak to both the personal and universal journey—of seeking something greater and more stable, yet finding that water itself can be a place of both instability and connection, where strangers meet and find sanctuary in the flow. On a broader scale, this title suggests the idea of fleeing, of displacement, and the inherent instability that accompanies it. Just as foreigners might seek refuge in new waters, so too do we all navigate the vast unknowns of life—searching for peace, for a place to find ourselves, for connection amidst the chaos. It speaks to the human condition of seeking belonging—whether through community or through personal reconciliation, within the waters that both separate and bind us.