CAMERON GILL

Algae Bloom

Sophie Gannon Gallery

01 Jul 2025 – 19 Jul 2025

Algae Bloom: Cameron Gill

In this new suite of paintings, Cameron Gill explores the instability of perception and the fluidity of representation through a practice grounded in material experimentation and sustained observation. Drawing from images captured along a creek adjacent to his home, Gill translates fragmentary reflections, submerged forms, and ephemeral shifts in light into layered compositions that resist immediate legibility.

Rather than illustrating a site, the works operate as records of process, emerging from a method that combines direct painting with monoprint techniques. Working flat with diluted pigments and raw or repurposed canvas, Gill engages in a recursive dialogue between gesture and erasure. Each surface becomes a site of both accumulation and loss, mirroring the transitory nature of the creek and its entanglement with runoff, waste, and organic life.

The use of monoprinting, which involves transferring paint from the canvas-in-progress onto a second fabric, introduces an element of unpredictability that destabilises authorial control. This interdependence between surfaces creates a conceptual echo of ecological systems, where every impression leaves a trace and every gesture is contingent. The results are works that hover between abstraction and landscape, suffused with a material sensitivity that foregrounds the act of making as a form of attunement.

By privileging ambiguity, Gill resists the seduction of clarity or fixed meaning. Instead, he constructs painterly environments that demand attentiveness and reward sustained looking. In doing so, he amplifies the quiet complexity of the overlooked the fragment, the reflection, the residue and offers a compelling meditation on how place, process, and perception entwine.

– Tess Maunder