Day Book - Gill Houghton

Looking at pictures, she was reminded of the lack of time. And anyway, where did all the time go?

In Day Book a woman artist looks at time in an address to quotidian events and their unfolding. Exploring motherhood, unpaid labour, childcare, and the time of the artist, she reads the work of contemporary women filmmakers through the earlier works of filmmakers, writers, and photographers, including Chantal Akerman and Marguerite Duras, Natalia Ginzburg and Christa Wolf, Bertien van Manen and Bernadette Mayer. The inability to capture the accumulation of days emerges—a form without form, day after day after day.

Gill Houghton is an artist working in film, video, and photography, exhibiting her work nationally and internationally. She lives
and works in London.  Day Book is her first book.

Ma Bibliothèque, 2025 
Softcover, 132pp 
190 x 120mm