Jil Sergent

(JiL of Aotearoa)

Based: Rawhiti, Napier 

 

Jil describes her preferred medium as “lime and cement…cast and carve….earth and spade.”

 

She has shown her work in over ninety exhibitions, mostly in Hawke’s Bay, during almost thirty years as a practising artist. Jil is known throughout the district for her public work, especially the murals she has been creating for schools and public spaces for the last twenty years.

 

Jil often works collaboratively with her partner Griz Edmonds, and a highlight of their artistic partnership has been designing, making, installing and burning Fire Sculpture in stunning live pyrotechnic displays at the Napier Winter Solstice Fire Festivals annually for ten years.