Madge gill biography examples
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In today’s tent stake, Adam explores the believable and forgery of Foreigner Artist Madge Gill.
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Day Five- Madge Gill- “Every Face Has Significance.”
It’s Day Five and I’m super excited to introduce my very first Art Brut/Outsider Artist…
Madge Gill!
I absolutely love love love Madge Gill’s artwork. I can safely say it’s right up my alley. This is a piece of art I think I’m going to have trouble with choosing exactly what I want to draw. I have
too many ideas. Let’s learn about this intriguing woman and see some examples of her artwork before I get too overwhelmed with my own piece. 🙂
Madge Gill was born in 1882 and died in 1961. One of the best biographies (written by Robert Cardinal) is from a website dedicated to her life and art. madgegill.com Below are only excerpts from the biography.
Madge Gill was an outstanding exponent of mediumistic art and remains one of the foremost British Outsider artists. Madge spent her early childhood sequestered from the world, brought up by her mother and Carrie, her aunt, under the strict eye of her grandfather. There came a time when the family decided it could no longer cope with this embarrassing child, and, even though her mother was still alive, the nine-year-old was committed to Dr Barnardo’s orphanage at Barkingside. Five years later, she was transpor
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MADGE GILL
b. 1882, London, England
d. 1961, London, England
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At the age of 37, in March 1919, Madge Gill experienced her vocation as a mediumistic artist. An illness left her blind in one eye and she experienced a postnatal depression after the stillbirth of a daughter. One of her three sons had died the year before. In order to alleviate her suffering, she tried to get in touch with her dead children through spiritualist séances. The result was an unrestrained burst of creative power. Her works, which she produced with seemingly boundless imagination for years, count among the most important examples of mediumistic work and fascinate not only the art world to this day.
Madge Gill was born as Maude Ethel Eades in 1882 in London. Since she was an illegitimate child, she was expelled, put in an orphanage, and then taken to a farm in Canada as a maid. In 1903 she returned to London and worked as a nurse. She came into contact with spiritualism through her aunt. When she entered into her severe life crisis, she began to knit, sing, write and draw automatically at night, in the dark, guided by an otherworldly being called "My