Artist Residencies

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Since the birth of the first child following in vitro fertilisation in 1978, Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) has become, for many couples, the means for them to realise their desire for a family. During her one-year residency at the Guy's Hospital Assisted Conception Unit in 2008, Gina Glover collaborated with staff and patients to produce artwork that symbolises the work of the unit.

Art in Art is an exhibition which incorporates ideas as well as images drawn from medical science (such as eggs, embryos and ultra-sound) into Gina’s art concepts.

To view this series of work, click:

http://www.artinhospitals.com/art_art_intro.html

The Site in question is located in a remote part of the English Midlands, and was inhabited since Neolithic times.

Selected for its remoteness (1944-1945), the village of Harrington became a secret US airbase, supplying the continental Resistance. In the 1950s-1960s it became a nuclear missile base, with rockets armed and ready to go during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

As a child, Gina Glover played and picniced there with her parents, arriving in a pony and trap. She did not know then, that the land had hosted powerful instruments of war. Today it is Glover's home and a working farm.

Today Glover's photographic work unearths the buried past, its memories, its artefacts, and shows the steady reclaiming of the land for growth peaceful purposes and countryside pursuits.

This is an ongoing project, which started in the early 1980s. In 2006 Glover received a Research and Development award from East Midlands Arts Council for this work.

Pedigree Trees are part of a permanent exhibition in the Genetics Department at Guy's Hospital, London.

'Moving On - Corridor Niches: Past to Present’ is a series of specially designed alcove light-boxes. Their content reflects conversations with and the wishes and hopes of patients, staff, volunteers and visitors for the new building of CMH in 2006; along with past memorabilia and artefacts shown to the artist.

These images are on permanent exhibition in the main corridor of Central Middlesex Hospital, London.

The Touch of Light is Gina Glover’s art piece for Spirit of Place - a web-based artwork to commemorate the former All Saints Hospital in Eastbourne. The Hospital, completed in 1869, was one of the largest and most modern convalescent hospitals of its era. The artists working on this project all have a particular interest in the spirit and sense of place, and the importance of memorial and collective memory.

In producing this series of photographs Glover travelled around All Saints Hospital using three different methods of capturing images. This is so the viewer gets different experiences of the site. The three cameras were a Pinhole camera, a Polaroid camera and a 35mm digital camera. The empty building contains an energy which fluctuates between calmness and sorrow. The air you breathe is thick. Seeing only light allowed her to sense past lives, past stories.

To view this series of work, click:

http://www.artinhospitals.com/touch_of_light.html

As part of ‘Art in Romney Marsh 2003’, Gina Glover collaborated with sculptor Mary Hooper to make a site specific installation focusing on a common theme ‘Genius Loci – Spirit of Place’ through the media of photography and sculpture. This work references the four churches of the Parish of New Romney and was exhibited in New Romney Church. This collaborative effort can be viewed here.

Seascape is composed of four photographic works – Hebridean Light, Sea Stories, Collections and Sea Poems. These were produced for the Day Procedures Unit, George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton in 2003.

Shaking the Tail Feather is a collaborative exhibition with textile sculptor Mary Hooper that explores the relationship between dress, animal and insect life.

'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.’ Emily Dickinson

These photographic images explore the expanse of the ocean...

Part of the collection of the Conquest Hospital, Hastings.

Some of Gina Glover's earlier work presented in archive format.