Gillian Brent is a sculptor and installation artist based in Sheffield, England. She makes works for gallery spaces and for outdoors.
Gillian works primarily in steel, sometimes combined with other materials.
Gillian works in response to place, looking at what makes up our environment and how people use and feel about a space. The work is constructed using formal and aesthetic relationships that allude to existing objects (architectural, industrial, functional), creating new ones that synthesise and subvert her experiences and perceptions of the world.
A large part of Gillian’s practice is collaborative. She works with all sorts of people, in art galleries and with schools, youth groups and other community groups on creative learning projects and commissions to make artworks for their locality.
