From the Jerusalem Diary of Eric Gill

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Along with his Guild work and illustrations, Gill designed several war memorials in this period. These included the Trumpington War Memorial in Cambridgeshire, the Chirk War Memorial in north Wales, the memorial at Ditchling, and the wall panel recording 228 names of the fallen in the ante-chapel at New College, Oxford. [1] [18] [19] [20] Gill also created the memorial at Briantspuddle in Dorset and, with Chute and Hilary Stratton, the monument at South Harting. [21] [22] Beside the main entrance to the British Museum, Gill designed and carved, with Joseph Cribb, the memorial inscription to the museum staff killed in the conflict and for the Victoria and Albert Museum, again with Cribb, he created the war memorial in that museum's entrance hall. [23] [24] Previously, in 1911, Gill had cut the inscription for the foundation stone of the British Museum's new King Edward VII building. [5] Gill's other significant work from this period was the Stations of the Cross that he carved, with Chute, for the Church of St Cuthbert in the Manningham area of Bradford. [25] Grainger also had a strong obsession with blue eyes, linking them to racial purity, and expressed views on intermarrying that could tactfully be described as unenlightened. Finally, he also boasted about his S&M fantasies in his made-up language, making for some unusual reading. By 1912, while Gill's main source of income was from gravestone inscriptions, he had also carved a number of Madonna figures and was widely assumed, wrongly at that time, to be a Catholic artist. As such he was invited to an exhibition of Catholic art in Brussels and, on route, stayed for some days at the Benedictine monastery at Mont-César Abbey near Louvain. [2] :94 Gill's experiences at Louvain, seeing the monks at prayer and hearing plainsong for the first time convinced him to become a Roman Catholic. [14] In February 1913, after religious instructions from English Benedictines, Gill and Ethel were received into the Catholic Church and Ethel changed her name to Mary. [2] :147 Westminster Cathedral 1914–1918 [ edit ] Westminster Cathedral, Stations of the Cross XIII

Born in Brighton, Arthur Eric Rowton Gill is one of 13 children. He studies at Chichester Technical and Art School, before becoming a trainee architect in London.

1882–1940

Gill's religious beliefs did not limit his sexual activity, which included several extramarital affairs. His religious views contrast with his deviant sexual behaviour, including, as described in his personal diaries, the sexual abuse of his daughters, an incestuous relationship with at least one of his sisters and also sexual experiments with a dog. Since these revelations became public in 1989, there have been a number of calls for works by Gill to be removed from public buildings and art collections. a b "Eric Gill archival and book collection". University of Waterloo Library . Retrieved 18 May 2016. These dates are not precise, since a lengthy period could pass between Gill creating a design and it being finalised by the Monotype drawing office team (who would work out many details such as spacing) and cut into metal. [67] In addition, some designs such as Joanna were released to fine printing use long before they became widely available from Monotype. The sculptures adorning the 1932 Art Deco building were carved by an artist of the Arts and Crafts movement, Eric Gill, who died in 1940. The most prominent statue stands over the original entrance and depicts a young boy in front of an older man, representing Ariel and Prospero from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”. The books should continue to be published and used for what they are. By the law of averages there are nasty people working in banks for example, but there is no suggestion that we should close our accounts. Why not use the royalties to help a charity working in this area - Childline for example.

Gill's 1935 essay All Art is Propaganda marked a complete reversal of his previous belief that artists should not concern themselves with political activity. [2] :272 He became a supporter of social credit and later moved towards a socialist position. [36] In 1934, Gill contributed art to an exhibition mounted by the left-wing Artists' International Association, and defended the exhibition against accusations in The Catholic Herald that its art was "anti-Christian". [37] Gill became a regular speaker at left-wing meetings and rallies throughout the second half of the 1930s. [2] :273 He was adamantly opposed to fascism, and was one of the few Catholics in Britain to openly support the Spanish Republicans. [36] Gill became a pacifist and helped set up the Catholic peace organisation Pax with E. I. Watkin and Donald Attwater. [38] Later, Gill joined the Peace Pledge Union and supported the British branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. [36] The Creation of Man, 1938

Gill published numerous essays on the relationship between art and religion, and a number of erotic engravings. [72] Gill's final publications included Twenty-Five Nudes and Drawings from Life both of which included drawings of Daisy Hawkins, the teenage daughter of the Gills' housekeeper with whom Gill began an affair in 1937. [1] The affair lasted two years during which time Gill drew her on an almost daily basis. When Hawkins was sent away from Pigotts, to the boarding house at Capel-y-ffin run by Betty Gill, Eric Gill followed her there to continue the relationship. [2] :284 Margaret Kennedy, a campaigner for Ministers and Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors, calls for the removal of Gill’s Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral. “The very hands that carved the Stations were the hands that abused,” Kennedy says. I think there is no need to destroy any genius' work? I agree that it may be disturbing for the victims yet how can one destroy a masterpiece for personal reasons? Secondly, I think an artist¿s personal and professional life should never be mixed up. Maybe we should allow the books to continue being produced, but remove his authorship and give the proceeds to a charity related to the crime.

Pilkington doesn’t feel that knowing Gill’s biography spoils our enjoyment of his work: if anything, it only deepens it; and in the coming weeks, she won’t shy away from telling people so. “This is a bit hard to say,” she tells me, in her east London studio, surrounded by body parts and unseeing eyes, “but the thing I feel behind all of Gill’s work is the libidinous drive of being an artist. When he carved his first figure, he wrote down in excited detail what it felt like to breathe life into material. It was sexual and intimate and God-like, this making of things that could be living, breathing bodies.” She rubs the tips of her fingers together. “That complete obsession: it’s what draws us to Gill, whether we like it or not.” She said: “Once you know a work is by Gill, you automatically ask yourself ‘Why is this institution honouring a sex offender?’ And you wonder if they care enough to understand that seeing it honoured means my pain being triggered is of no consequence. It’s a bit like saying: ‘We know this might trigger for survivors but actually Gill’s brilliant art trumps that’.” It was only afterward that people began to examine his art and life more closely. What they found was a personality less suited to art and more suited to a serial killer. Chichester is the right place for reassessing Gill, since it was his home town. Gill, for all his wildness, was a very small-town person. He lived in Chichester, where his father was a clergyman, through his formative teenage years, the time when this most phallic of artists discovered the unexpected functioning of his own male organ: "What marvellous thing was this that suddenly transformed a mere water tap into a pillar of fire." The impecunious curate's family were crowded into a little terrace house on Chichester's North Walls, and it seems likely that incestuous relations with at least one of Eric's sisters started here.When it comes to art and life, and to what degree they can or should be separated, he believes people fall on a spectrum. “At one end, there are those who believe biography to be irrelevant; and at the other, there are those who believe he was a disgusting man, and wonder why he should be shown at all. Most are in the middle. Even within the team at Ditchling, different people feel different things. But in the end, the only reason for doing the show is because he is an extraordinary artist.” The diaries also revealed a dark dimension to some of Gill’s sculptures. A semi-pornographic one in the Tate Britain known as F—king was discovered to be of Gill’s younger sister Gladys and her husband. At the time it was made, Gill was having an incestuous fling with Gladys. Sketches he made of his prepubescent daughter bathing also turned out to have been done around the time he was abusing her.



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