Jill Randall

Jill Randall makes sculpture and installations for specific sites and spaces which frequently explore relationships between contemporary art and the environment.

Her core practice is sculpture, especially welding and forging metals, and the pursuit of this has led her to the mineral sources and processing of metals, explored and developed through her industry residencies, and the landscapes and environments that result.
Randall has a commitment to making and materiality, and pushes materials to limits.  She explores how a minimal gesture can carry profound meaning, and is interested in processes of thinking through making, sometimes combining disparate materials to create a new thought, sometimes involving the recycling of materials invested with history and narrative through their past use. She is interested in exploring the passage of time as process on material, and the concept of ‘Deep Time’ revealed in geological processes.
She is interested in the creativity of destructive or deconstruction processes, frequently linked to her residencies in factories and industrial environments, and using the unique chemistry and ecology of post-industrial sites to create new work.

Photography: Dave Bennett.