Bert Gilbert

Bert Gilbert is a multi-disciplinary British artist.
Her process is one of re-discovering a universal 'Sacred Heritage’, the foundation of primordial cosmologies (Mircea Eliade: Rites and Symbols of Initiation ) witnessed within myth, nature rituals, folkloric storytelling and music.

Gilbert is creating her own mythology with each work forming its particular part of the sacred and secular whole.

Her work is artefact, installation, wardrobe and performance. Laced with dark humour using a lexicon of hybrid symbology they create a visceral language of expression and simultaneously operate as elements of transferred emotional states. Her focus currently is exploring the dark feminine.

Gilbert’s ritualised and obsessive methods are in turn energetic and meditative. What they make signifies a rite of passage, from one state to another, operating as alchemical relics of this transformation, in all their material sensuality.

One can read this as both redemptive personal journey or a template for a societal shift. A calling for a ritualised rewiring of the collective consciousness in a high capitalist society obsessed with appearances alone.

EDUCATION
1998 - June 2003 BA (Hons)Fine Art. 1st class
Central St Martin’s college of Art and Design
1997 – Sept 1998 BTEC Diploma in Foundation Studies-Distinction
Central St Martin’s college of Art and design

EXHIBITIONS
2018
Did you eat Yoko Ono? Studio show, Seven Sisters, London.
Bert Gilbert, Izzet Ers, Sarah Derat and Rachel McRae

2017
LCN Showcase @ Space Studios, Hackney, London.

The Center Cannot Hold. Istanbul. Turkey.
Curated by Suzanne Ergeran, Featuring artists : Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sarah Crowner,Jason Martin, Gunes Terkol, Bert Gilbert and Izzet Ers, Hayv Kahraman, Ali Emir Tapan, Roni Horn

2016
Directional Forces. Trinity Buoy Wharf, London sponsored by UEL

BSMT, A Year Underground, Group Show, Dalston

Symposium @ UEL, London.

Dot to Dot, London.

2015

Post-sexual: Fringe Festival, Mill co project, London

Death in Dalston BSMT Space, London

Mad Agency. La Sira. Asinere sur Seine, Paris

2014
10 X 10. Article 25, The Shard, London
BT Artbox. Covent Garden, London

2012
Faces and Traces. 286 Gallery, Earl's Court. London
Installation in the Air. Spitafields.London

Glitterbug. Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc, Hackney.London
• Group show featuring artists Gavin Turk, Rachel Whitehead and Sir Peter Blake.

2010
Beasts Royal, House of Fairy Tales. Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc, Hackney. London
• Group show featuring artists Gavin Turk, Rachel Whitehead and Sir Peter Blake

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