After World War I, together with Hilary Pepler and Desmond Chute, Gill founded a guild association to promote the ideals of medieval, or pre-industrial, craft production, the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic at Ditchling.

The programme consisted of a series of break-out sessions – we split into groups and disappeared into corners – after which, reunited, we engaged in a wider conversation. When the chapel was eventually opened to the public this censorship of Gills' last work was a matter of some considerable controversy. You can’t look at it and say: ‘He was a sculptor, of course he was interested in measurements and form. He craved more strict authority, a degree of flagellation, his sins cast upon the rock that is Christ. There are certain works of Petra where we know that within weeks of making them, he was abusing her.

The sexual abuse Gill was perpetrating on his two eldest daughters during the same period only became known after his death. The Guild's emphasis was on manual labour as opposed to more modern industrial methods, such that they did not use mechanised tools and considered craft working a form of holy worship. Another terrible war is cut short by the devastating Grey Years, and while nations rebuild many individuals turn Notek. He also worked on a set of panels depicting the stations of the cross for the Anglican St Alban's Church in Oxford, finishing the drawings three weeks before he died and completing nine of the pieces himself.

There is also some evidence, from Gill's own writings, of an incestuous relationship with Angela, another of his sisters.There’s something quite joyous, delightful and possibly even endearing in the way Joyce talks very dirty and explains his wild fantasies of giving it to his Mrs up the wrong ‘un, with her full and equally enthusiastic consent. Initially identifying with the Arts and Crafts Movement, by 1907 he was lecturing and campaigning against the movement's perceived failings. Arthur was born in the South Seas, where his father, George Gill, was a Congregational minister and missionary. On January 12, 2022, an activist used a ladder to climb above the entrance to the BBC Broadcasting House in London and preceded to attack the statue of Prospero and Ariel prominently displayed above the door.

He had a brief affair with the family maid while his wife was pregnant and then a relationship with Lillian Meacham, who he met through the Fabian Society.After a short period in Battersea, the couple moved into 20 Black Lion Lane, Hammersmith in west London, near the, recently married, Johnstons' home on Hammersmith Terrace. Gill was commissioned to carve a number of inscriptions in Oxford, including this one on Blackfriars Hall, St. His first sculptures included Madonna and Child (1910), which the art critic Roger Fry described as a depiction of "pathetic animalism", [9] and the almost life-size work now known as Ecstasy (1911). The other key working relationship Gill established while at Capel-y-ffin was with Stanley Morison, the Typographic Advisor to the Monotype Corporation. And what consequences will it have in the longer run both for Gill’s work and those institutions that are its guardians?