Madge Gill by Myrninerest is a personal journey through the extraordinary archives of Madge Gill, one of Britain’s most creative and visionary self-taught artists.
Edited by Sophie Dutton, the book contains conversations, exclusive interviews, essays from outsider art specialists, family photographs and handwritten correspondence and well as rare and unseen works, including her revelatory large scale embroideries to take us ever closer to the enigmatic and troubled personality of this inspirational artist.
This new revised and updated edition will include:
- An interview with Grayson Perry (who discovered Madge Gill after the publication of the original book) explaining how Gill influenced his new work for his forthcoming exhibition 'Delusions of Grandeur' at the Wallace Collection
- An interview with Madge Gill’s second cousin Betty Newman, her last living relative who remembers her, who came forward after the publication of the original book
- Rare images of artwork and embroidery never publicly seen before the retrospective exhibition at William Morris Gallery in 2019
- An exclusive interview with Sir Peter Blake on outsider art
- Concertina pages to fully display large scale works
- Responses from collectors and outsider art specialists including Henry Boxer & Sara Ayad, fashion designer Jenny Kee & artist Wilfrid Wood
- Rare archive imagery and documents revealing Gill's connection with ardent spiritualist and creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Specially commissioned essays exploring the impact on Gill of ‘Dr’ Thomas Barnardo’s indefensible child emigration scheme, the pioneering mental health doctor, Helen Boyle, the buoyant spiritualist world and Jean Dubuffet’s Art Brut collection
Rough Trade, 246pp, 15cm x 21cm, paperback, 2025
