[1] In her work Jagger "[appropriates] materials from nature", and incorporates tracings, rubbings, and castings of found objects in both urban and rural environments.
[4] After the death of her father Jagger’s mother remarried, when she was aged 7, to an American coal industrialist and the family relocated to Buffalo, New York.
[1] The artist has worked and resided in a converted "five-barn" dairy farm in Kerhonkson, New York, with her partner Consuelo (Connie) Mander since 1978.
Gillian Jagger worked in large-scale plaster, stone, cast cement, and sheet lead; as well as found biogenic substances such as animal carcasses and sections of fallen tree trunks.
[4] Her castings of manhole covers on the streets of New York City attracted attention from local and national news media during the early 1960s.