A3 Limited Edition Prints
2022
Jill Tegan Doherty
Photo credit | Karoline Noerbaek
Biography
Jill Tegan Doherty is an artist from Nottingham, England. (b.1983). She completed an art foundation course at the Kingston Institute (2003), in Kingston Upon Thames, then studied Fine Art (Painting) at Camberwell College, and went on to graduate from Chelsea College of Art and Design, both part of the London Institute (2006). She now lives and works in Berlin.
After a successful period living in London, participating in numerous exhibitions, including The Royal Academy’s summer exhibition, Mall Galleries as part of the Society of Women Artists annual exhibition, and the Millennium Gallery in St.Ives, curated by Alice Herrick. Doherty has infiltrated the German art scene after moving to Berlin in 2012, partaking in exhibitions and art fairs throughout Berlin, Hamburg, Mannheim, Stuttgart and Munich. She has shown internationally in Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands.
Physical instability surfaces in Doherty’s work through an almost playful act, pronounced by fusing humans and animals in unexpected landscapes. Animals are used as metaphorical masks, uncovering personal and social undercurrents. Doherty grew up surrounded by her father's collection of taxidermy and cabinets of curiosities and is greatly influenced by her hyperreal dreams, forcing questions about the layers of our perceived reality. Walking the line between fantasy, realism and abstraction, the metaphysical, ethereal, conscious, and unconscious states of being, Doherty unites the field of nature with our human nature.
Effortlessly shifting between mediums and materials, Doherty, primarily a painter, also moves into sculpture, installation, performance, drawing and etching. Her work acts as a mirror, encouraging us to look deeper inside ourselves, and a catalyst for our imaginations to soar.
Artist Statement
I’m interested in the ongoing mutations of the individual and social unconscious, that which we observe and inhabit. Presently it’s a historical threshold marked by technology, viruses’, existential unrest, nature with human fingerprints, and ultimately the loss of our primal and biological connection to the earth. The ideology of humanity is dissolving, leaving behind a primeval quest for re-connection to something familiar, something raw, and real. Automatism plays an integral role within my practice. There’s a purpose to this process; however, no prior intention, elements from the subconscious transcend onto the paper or canvas, liberating what lies hidden.
I paint because I have to, it’s a part of me. It’s as if my work and unconscious reveal themselves in studied randomness. Upon reflection of a completed series, all the things laid buried and unaware to me are staring back, becoming corporeal images to critique. The unconscious divulges our deepest hurts and fears, our belief in symmetry and hope, as well as presenting and unearthing archetypal icons and symbolism, an integral part of being human. I find myself overwhelmed by beauty. I see it all around, in the smallest details, in the most obscure places, sounds, unexpected patterns that other people don’t seem to notice. My work unveils the tension of opposites, the inescapable duality of existence: love-hate, death-life, magnificent-grotesque, light-dark, but it’s also a pilgrimage into what lies between these polarities. When I look at my work at the end, I see, unexpectedly, the complexity of the human psyche, the internal screams of anguish, and the screams of piercing delicacy. And this is the space my art occupies. Jorge Luis Borges perfectly encapsulates: “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.”
Vita
Biography
1983 Born in Bristol, England.
1985 Family moved to Nottingham.
2002-03 Completed the Art Foundation course with a Merit at Kingston Institute,
Kingston Upon Thames, GB.
2003-06 Completed the Fine Art (BA HONS) at Chelsea University of the Arts with a 2:1, London, GB
2009-11 Co- founder and curator at TO and FOR Gallery in Archway, London.
Hosting exhibitions, artist talks and art workshops, TO and FOR went on to become a
registered charity and ran for two years, funded by the Cripple Gate foundation
2011 Moved to Berlin
2015 Completed an etching course, taught by Peter Schulz Leonhardt at Werkstatt Künstlerische
Lithographie, Berlin, DE
Solo exhibitions
2023 The Sound of Moths GlogauAIR | Berlin, DE
2020 Hungry Lungs, Gudberg Nerger Gallery, Hamburg, DE
2018 The Forest As An Alternate Kingdom Gudberg Nerger Gallery, Hamburg, DE
Crystallisation of Thought, Asklepios Medical School, Hamburg, DE
2017 The Shape of Death Gudberg Nerger Gallery, Hamburg, DE
2014 An Absence of Hares The PPC Galerie, Berlin, DE
The Forgotten Few Space Shuffle Projekt Raum, Berlin, DE
2013 Nothing Was Put in Place to Stop the Growth Porcelaingres Galerie, Berlin, DE
2012 MeSH (D020188) (Einzelausstellung) Holtz Kohlen Koks Galerie, Berlin, DE
2008 If I Were Blind I Could See Austin Gallery, London, GB
Group exhibitions (selection)
2023 Salon no. 4, Galerie Christine Knauber, Schöneberg, Berlin, DE
2021 October Edition, KIB Raum für Kunst, Arena, Treptower, Berlin, DE
2020 Salon No.3, Galerie Christine Knauber, Schöneberg, Berlin, DE
Fabelhaft, Ratskeller Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst – Lichtenberg, Berlin, DE
Der Weg Allen Fleisches, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin Mitte, DE
2019 Ausstellung Tag der Druckkunst, Werkstatt Künstlerische Lithographie, Berlin, DE
2018 Playground, Insel Galerie, Friedrichshain, Berlin, DE
Das Tier, Galerie Christine Knauber, Schöneberg, Berlin, DE
Stockholm Art Week, The Enter Art Foundation, Epicentre, Stockholm, SE
2017 Synthesis, Gallery X, Rungsted, Kopenhagen, DK
Und#9 Verein UND Plattform Karlsruhe.e.V, Dragoner Kaserne, Karlsruhe, DE
Jill Tegan Doherty & Belarmino Varela De Barros, TAUT HAUS, Berlin, DE
2016 Naturell Galerie ICON, curated by We Art Berlin, Mitte, Berlin, DE
In humane [Kunst] PROJEKTE, Mannheim, DE
2015 We are all Human Galerie Blond & Blond Contemporary, Mitte, Berlin DE
Equinox The Ballery, Berlin, DE
Ornamental Stature Dat Galerie, Berlin, DE
2013 Trace of Existence The Cellar Gallerie, Berlin, DE
2011 Live Art Review Liebig12 Galerie, Berlin, DE
Patisserie Valerie September Show Patisserie Valerie, London. GB
The Persona Arts Festival The Rag Factory, London, GB
Beasts Royal The Last Tuesday Society, curated by Alice Herrick, London, GB
2010 Millennium The Millennium Gallery, curated by The House of Fairy Tales, St.Ives, Cornwall, GB
2009 The Horn of Plenty The last Tuesday Society, curated by The House of Fairytales, London, GB
Light is Elsewhere Madame Lillies Gallery, London, GB
Altermodernism The Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston-Super-Mare, GB
Art Fairs
2022 The Discovery Art Fair, XPOST Cologne, Germany, DE
2022 Huntenkunst Kunstmesse, The Old Iron Factory, Die Niederlande, NL
2019 Positions Kunstmesse, Gudberg Nerger Gallery, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin, DE
2018 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Gudberg Nerger gallery, Hamburg Messe, Hamburg, DE
2016 Arte 16 Kunst Messe, Sindelfingen Messe,, Stuttgart, DE
2015 Berliner Liste 2015 Kunstmesse, Kraftwerk, Berlin, DE
2014 Berliner Liste 2014 Kunstmesse, Postbanhof, Berlin, DE
Huntenkunst Kunstmesse The Old Iron Factory, Die Niederlande, NL
2011 The Affordable Art Fair der Sphere Galerie representiert, Battersea Park, London, GB
2008 Prelude Art Fair Spitalfields Market, London, GB
Selection in competitions
2011 Live Art Review, Selected for the Live-Art Review, Liebig12 Gallery, Berlin, DE
Persona Art Festival, Selected for final exhibition, The Rag Factory, London, GB
2010 A Moving Exhibition, Selected for exhibitions in 3 London based Galleries, GB
2009 The Society of Women Artists, The Mall Galleries, London, GB
The Tomorrow People, 1 of 9 finaslists selected for an exhibition at The Elevator Gallery,
London, GB
2008 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, selected for exhibition at The Royal Academy,
London, GB
Surreal September, selected for the final exhibition at The Art Works Gallery,
Newcastle upon Thames, GB
Publications
2020 Art work publication, Bluebee Magazine Volume 5 Hyacinth, Editor in chief Stefan Finsinger, GB
2019 Artist feature, Gudberg Nerger magazine News from the nonestablishment,
published by Gudberg Nerger, DE
2017 Art Work Publication, Uric Acid, blood pressure, and gout management:
Beneath the surface, Doctoral Thesis publication by Lieke Scheepers.
(Image from the Crystallisation of Thought project)
2014 Art Work publication, The Lumen edition 1:2014, edited by Kim Ah-See/Jennifer
Allen/Muireann Crowley/Richard Dargie/Francesca Heard, Edinburgh, GB
2014 Review ‘Berlin Kunst Woche: Kunstmesse "Berliner Liste" im Postbahnhof', Der Tagesspiegel,
Angela Hohmann, Berlin DE
2013 Published Artist Review ‘Anatomy of a Thought’, KiT Magazine, Lidia Casari IT
2012 Online Exhibition Review ‘Nothing Was Put in Place Stop the Growth’ Slow Travel Berlin,
Natalie Holmes DE
2011 Interview, ‘In Conversation with the founders of TO AND FOR Gallery: Jill Tegan Doherty and
Harriet Jones’, Ideas Tap, Naomi O’Leary, London GB
Residencies
2020-21 Organised by the artist, residence in Mexico City and San Miguel De Allende, MX
2017 Selected as the Artist in residence for Thurup House, Supported by Assens council, Assens,
Denmark, DK
2010 Open Air Open Studios Residency, Pangolins Ark, In Clissold Park, London, GB