Ruth Gilmour (b. 1990, Scotland) is an artist and researcher based in Denmark and London. She graduated from The Glasgow School of Art (BFA First-Class Hons, 2017) and HDK-Valand, Sweden (MFA, 2020), and is currently undertaking a PhD in Artistic Research at the Royal College of Art, London. Her doctoral project ‘Fibres of Porosity: Unravelling Dis-ease through Silk, Embodied Knowing and Material Engagement’ explores the materiality of silk to contribute health and healing discourses within applied and contemporary art practices.

Rooted in experiences of chronic dis-ease, Gilmour’s practice attends to the porous thresholds between body, material, and environment. Through practices of making and writing, she uses silk to register shivers, shudders, and shimmers, fraying and unravelling affect through repetitive, meditative gestures.

Attentive to the material, metaphysical, and mystical ties that knot mind, body, and environment, her practice unfolds through image-making and processes of de/construction, exploring porosity as both a material and emotional condition. Moments, memories, and sensations are patched together through an auto-theoretical weaving of text, textile, and image, forming poetic reflections on the dis-ease of bodies and planet, and their potential for transformation. Gilmour’s work has been exhibited internationally and supported by institutions including Copenhagen Contemporary, Statens Kunstfond, Craft Research, and the European Prize for Applied Arts.


Please find her CV below, and feel free to get in touch for price lists, collaborations, or other inquiries.

rthglmr@gmail.com