A3 Limited Edition Prints
2022

Photo credit | Ian Medina
Biography
Jill Tegan Doherty (b. 1983, Nottingham, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, performance, drawing and etching. After completing a foundation at Kingston School of Art and graduating from Chelsea College of Arts, London, in 2006, she began her career exhibiting in London, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Mall Galleries. From 2011 to 2025 she was based in Berlin, presenting work widely across Germany and internationally, and was represented by Gudberg Nerger Gallery, Hamburg (2017–2022). Guided by a curiosity for the unknown and a continual urge to expand her inner and artistic landscapes, Doherty recently relocated to Mexico City, marking a new chapter in her practice.
Artist Statement
The ongoing mutations of the individual and social unconscious drive my practice, the landscapes we observe and inhabit. At this historical threshold—shaped by technology, viruses, existential unrest, and human impact on nature—we face a loss of primal connection to the earth and a search for something raw and real.
Automatism is at the heart of my process. Through spontaneous gestures, the subconscious reveals what lies unseen. Forms, symbols, and narratives are birthed into existence, both fragmentary and whole. I create because I have to, it’s a part of me. My work and unconscious reveal themselves in studied randomness. Reflecting on a completed series, these once-buried elements confront me, becoming corporeal images to critique.
I am drawn to beauty in the smallest details and overlooked patterns. My work also engages the tension of opposites and the inescapable duality of existence—love-hate, life-death, magnificent-grotesque. It inhabits the in-between, a pilgrimage into the complexity of the human psyche, where anguish and delicacy coexist. As Jorge Luis Borges wrote: “Idealist doctrine has it that the verbs ‘to live’ and ‘to dream’ are at every point synonymous; for me, thousands upon thousands of appearances will pass into one.”