Flat Volume
Grays 140
Commissioned by LookAgain for “Gray’s 140 Performing the Archive: #Correspondences – Women’s Voices” to create new work in response to the artist-educator, Sylvia Wishart. The Grays 140 exhibition will be on display at at Aberdeen Art Gallery from 22nd November 2025 until April 2026.
Bio:
Lyndsey Gilmour (born: Glasgow, 1988) works in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
She obtained a Master of Fine Arts Painting Degree, with distinction, in 2014, from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and gained her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree, specialising in Painting, at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, in 2010.
Awards include: Lyon and Turnbull Award for Painting, RSA Latimer Award, The William Coldstream Prize, Dewar Arts Award (2012 & 2013), Pocock Award and Scottish International Education Trust Award.
Whilst upholding a professional painting practice, she works full-time as a Lecturer at Gray’s School of Art, is a practice-based early-career researcher, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Practice:
Interested in Painting as a form of representation, imitation and ‘other’, Gilmour studies objects in relation to the home environment to create subjective visual recordings of transitory figure-ground relationships. She uses the shadow to navigate space, between physical and representational being – from figuration towards abstraction.
Gilmour’s work attempts to acknowledge the ‘ineluctable flatness’ of Painting and its wider histories, by working directly onto the wall and transportable supports. Painting on 1mm thick sheet steel, she exaggerates surface while exploring each works existence as a distinct object in space and its relationship with the wall and architectural surrounds.
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