He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and worked frequently as a medalist, as did his wife, Mary Tutin, whom he married in 1905. They had been students together at Nottingham.[1]
He served on the Sculpture Faculty of the British School at Rome and on the Council of the Imperial Arts League.[1] He was a member of the Art Workers Guild from 1916 until his death, being elected Master in 1935.[2] He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1935, but never became a full Academician.[1]
He died in London on 25 September 1951 aged 76.[1]
A sculptural group of Henry VII at Bosworth Field for the City Hall, Cardiff, (c.1919).[1]
Figures for the reredos in Winchester College Chapel, as part of the Winchester College War Memorial (1923).
An allegorical group for the National Westminster Bank building in Princes Street, London of 1931–1932, notable for figures of Lower Mathematics and Higher Mathematics, in which the latter figure holds a sculpted magic square.
Ex Tenebris Lux, 1937. Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand.
^ abcdefghi"Ernest George Gillick ARA". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII (Online database). Retrieved 5 November 2013.