Gail Lloyd is a ceramic artist living and working in Philadelphia. She graduated from Temple University’s School of Film and Media Arts and enjoyed a career in film and video for 25+ years. During this time, she co-produced the documentary “Smart, Proud, Respected” for which she received an ABC Entertainment Television Group Talent Development Program Recognition of Creative Excellence Award in 2002. She was technical director and editor for the multiple award-winning “No! The Rape Documentary.” She did sound and casting and played a minor role in “The Watermelon Woman,” and did camera work for “Black Nations/Queer Nations.” For the Univ. of Minnesota Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community (IDVAAC), she was director, line producer, and editor of 4 documentaries; one of which won her a 2008 award from Transformation Detroit and IDVAAC in recognition of her “sensitive portrait of Detroit communities of color domestic violence service organizations.” 

 

Lloyd discovered a deep love of clay around 2010 and has been focused solely on ceramic art full time since 2015. She began this journey making functional pottery, both wheel thrown and hand-built. However, after she was introduced to figurative sculpture in August 2019, she realized that this form of expression offers a dynamic way through which she can explore ideas such as identity, gender, race, religion, class, beauty. Through her art, she wishes to break down assumptions of all kinds. In addition to clay, she also makes use of metal, plastic, glass, acrylic and oil paint, wax and found objects.

 

Lloyd’s work is in the permanent collection of The Colored Girls Museum, as well as in private collections in the Philadelphia area and beyond.