Lyndsey Gilmour (1988) works in Aberdeenshire and is a Lecturer and practice-based Early-Career Researcher at Gray’s School of Art. Gilmour is the co-facilitator of the practice-led research project Painted Conversations. She obtained an MFA Painting Degree from the Slade School of Fine Art (2014), with distinction, and a BA (Honours) Painting Degree from Gray’s School of Art (2010). Awards include Gray’s 140 Performing the Archive- Women’s Voices Commission Award for the Grays 140 exhibition (Aberdeen Art Gallery), Lyon and Turnbull Award for Painting, RSA Latimer Award, The William Coldstream Prize, Dewar Arts Award and SIET Award. Gilmour has two paintings in the ‘University College London Art Museum’ collection. Recent exhibitions include Grays140 Never Make A Head Bigger Than A Melon at Aberdeen Art Gallery (until 12th April 2026), Flat Volume at APT Gallery London (2025), Myriad at Oceans Apart Gallery Manchester (2025), Beep Painting Biennial Swansea (2024), Tentative Formations at Patriothall, Edinburgh (solo exhibition, 2022) and Painted Conversations at Whitespace Gallery Edinburgh (2022).
Statement:
I am interested in Painting as a distilled form of representation, imitation and ‘other’. Studying objects within the home environment, I record the transitory figure-ground relationships that form through individual or shared interactions. This seemingly mundane subject matter offers potential for subjective interpretations, with the imagery acting as a springboard to explore the possibilities of paint. At times, I use the shadow to navigate space, between physical and representational being – from figuration towards abstraction. My work attempts to acknowledge the ‘ineluctable flatness’ of Painting and its wider histories, predominantly working on rectangular supports and at times expanding beyond the rectangle and/or directly onto the wall. Painting on 1mm thick steel, I exaggerate ‘surface’ while exploring each works existence as a distinct object in space, its relationship with the wall and the architectural surrounds.