EO Gill

EO Gill (b. 1986) is a moving-image artist and curator. Their films are situated in the real world, though hold very little regard for reality. Gill carefully constructs scenarios replete with a distinctive theatricality and resonant with references to film, psychoanalysis, Western medicine and diagnostic taxonomies. Their artistic aim is to examine the structures and frameworks that police and uphold concepts of gender. Gill privileges material processes and technologies including working with 16mm film. They are newly experimenting with foley sound-design (the live reproduction of everyday sound effects – like shaking a rubber glove to replicate the beating wings of a bat).

Gill presented their two-channel film Conversion, 2023 at Firstdraft in 2023. A single-channel version was subsequently presented at the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, organised by Gridthiya Gaweewong and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. As an independent curator Gill has developed and presented three moving-image exhibitions concerned with trans media aesthetics: ‘Screwball’ at Verge Gallery, 2022, Fulgora at National Art School, 2023 and Softcore at Carriageworks, 2024. Gill’s curatorial essay Screwball won the British Association of Decadence Studies (BADS) Essay Prize and was subsequently published in Volupté Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies’, Goldsmiths University, 2022. They are a co-video director on Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s highly acclaimed live theatre project The Second Woman which continues to tour internationally.