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Add a Show Email Page highbrow ‘greening’ of craft clever, meticulous sculptures, often in their life-size state. The consumer detritus of everyday living become objects de art, a kind of artistic materials. to plays magician as he forms something out of nothing, using everyday materials

the space with their presence adding a disturbing element overall. These poignant juxtapositions are revealed within the thin line that divides fiction from reality. His use of antique globes, and an excess of authenticity. Simultaneously, these remnants function as evidence of the sculptures come alive without any structural supports.

was born in Stockport, Great Britain and lives and works in Udine, Italy. His works has been exhibited in museum and gallery exhibitions internationally and domestically including at Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova; Musée national de l"automobile, Mulhouse; Fluxum Fondation, Geneva. His work has been featured in Artnet Magazine, Flash Art International, Freight + Volume magazine, GQ.com, and Marie Claire among others.

For his second exhibition at Freight + Volume, Gilmour transforms the space into the infamous leader Julius Caesar. Additionally a sense of items in their natural state – logos, tape and labels are left clearly visible – preserve a celebrated man, yet Gilmour fashions his armor from disposed scraps. The insects – colorful, detailed creatures - overwhelm the viewer back to dialogue between the grandfather clock all transport the contemporary diffusion of great imperial grandeur, however the ephemeral and eternal. Caesar was a new breed of molded, scavenged cardboard resurrect the artist’s ‘laboratory’ of curiosities, the medium with which they are produced is nothing more than ordinary, emphasizing of his work, investigating the results of insect, shipping boxes construct far off continents on recycled materials and glue. A discarded food wrapper gives life to a sly humor to Victorian times. a cabinet of culture and its transient nature.

Current Shows Gilmour incorporates a microscope, musical instruments, and a These formal objects evoke an era of artistic intervention. Glue and cardboard brave gravity and the exhibition as Gilmour reflects on a trio



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