Bert Gilbert is a cross‑disciplinary artist whose practice unfolds across sculpture, sensory environments, and performance. These manifestations take different material and experiential forms yet operate within a singular symbolic universe shaped by ritual, transformation, embodiment, altered perception, and desire. Moving between object, environment, and action, Gilbert treats each medium not as a discrete discipline but as a conduit within one evolving cosmology, where queered hybrid symbologies and somatic soundscapes work to re‑enchant bodies and worlds marked by rupture.

“BERT GILBERT IS A BREATHING WORK OF ART.” Brit Parks UNPOLISHED MAGAZINE

“A MASTER CRAFTSWOMAN” Jasmine Gardner, EVENING STANDARD

“A NORTHERN MARINA AMBRAMOVIC." Kirsty Allison

“Gilbert’s work may be humorous and sly, but it’s also unflinching in bearing witness to physical and emotional abuse, and biological grief. It counters the trauma with its antidote, the power of resilience, the talismans of the sacred feminine and procreation. Personal, but also species, survival.” Isabel De Vasconcellos.

“Personal and societal transformation are channelled directly through the body of the artist in the ritualistic works of Bert Gilbert. Gilbert’s interdisciplinary works include performance, costume, photography, fetishistic objects and 2D works. Not afraid to broach sexuality and obsession Bert has gained a reputation for pushing the audience to confront underlying desires and taboo,There are allusions to Jungian analytical psychology perhaps most obviously in the works, ‘Shadow of my Former Self’ and ‘Animus’ and to alchemy and symbolism throughout the artists practice,The attitude, frankness and originality of the artist makes her a highly potent force and this is sadly a quality which is often lacking in an increasingly po-faced art world. Her performances can be seen as essential interventions, calling for malleability in a congealing culture. “ Michael Eden: Trebutchet Magazine