Born: 1990
From: Glasgow, UK
Living: Vipperød, Denmark
Education:
2020: MFA, Craft: Jewellery Art, (Yuka Oyama and Karin Johansson) HDK, Gothenburg, Sweden 2017: First class BA [Hons w/distinction], Silversmithing and Jewellery, (Jonathan Boyd) Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland 2012: HNC, Photography, Glasgow City College, Glasgow, Scotland.
Residencies:
2021: The Museum of Loss and Renewal,Taking Time Residency, Italy2017-2018: Designskolen Kolding, Artist in Residence, Denmark2016: HDK, Exchange Student, Gothenburg
Solo exhibitions:
2023: (Upcoming), Bladr, Copenhagen2020: Frayed Bodies, Bredegrund 1, Copenhagen2018: Material Bodies, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow2018: Material Bodies, DSKD, Denmark
Selected Group exhibitions:
2023: AWN, Øens Have, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023: The Biennale for Craft and Design, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark2022: Caring Futures, Sølvberget Library and Cultural Centre, Norway2022: Talente, Internationale Handwerkmesse, Munich, Germany2021-2022: Textile Art of Today, Triennial of Textile; Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava-Cunovo Slovak
Republic; Tatra Gallery, Poprad, Slovak Republic; The Museum of Moravian Slovakia, Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic; Pesti
Vigadó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; Museum Historyczne, Bielsko-Biala, Poland2021-2022: The Euopean Prize of Applied Arts, WCC-Europe, Belgium; CCAM, Barcelona2021: The Art Prize, Ashurts HQ, London2021: Spiritus, Michael Weihe Gallery, Copenhagen2020, MFA degree show, Gothenburg (online)2019: Bodies in Alliance/Bodies in Defiance, Rotor Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden2019, Myth, Misfortune, Horror and Luck, Glasshuset, Gothenburg2019: Hemma Gone Wild, curated by Svensk Form and Joyn Studio for Milan Design Week, Brera Design District, Milan2019: A Second Ago... Stockholmsmässan, Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholm2017: Making It Now, curated by Gregory Parsons, Ruthin Craft Centre, The Centre for the Applied Arts, Wales2017: Materialise, Fife Contemporary, Online2017, Great Northern Graduates, Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Manchester, UK2017: Introducing, North Land Creative, Caithness, Scotland2017: New Designers, Business Design Centre Islington, London2017: Degree show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland2016: Elements, Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh, Scotland2016, Feminist Strategies, A-venue, Gothenburg
Publications:
Gilmour, R, Loose Gatherings, pt.11 . Care, Issue 30, pp.20-21: eSharp, Autumn 2022.Olivia Spring, SICK magazine, volume 3, UK, 2021Gilmour, R, ed Katherine Townsend. Mattering and making ethics: On craft, embodiment and vulnerable
materialities. Craft Research, 11(1), pp.115-127: Intellect Books, 2020.Gilmour, R. Material Bodies. Self published: Glasgow, Scotland 2018A&E collective, But there is no land near the end, Glasgow, 2018Gilmour, R. Nothing is Solid. Self published: Glasgow, 2017
Awards & Grants:
2023: Project Grant, Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond, Denmark
2023: Project Grant, Statens Kunstfond, Denmark
2022: Finalist for The European Prize for Applied Arts, WCC-Europe, Belgium 2022: Finalist for the Talente Prize, Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich 2021: Working grant, Statens Kunstfond, Denmark2021: The Visual Arts and Crafts Makers Award, Creative Scotland2020: Theodor and Mannheimers Foundation, Project Grant, Sweden2020: Adlerbertska Foundation Grant, Travel Grant, Sweden2019 & 2018: Dewar Arts Award, Scotland 2017: Glasgow School of Art, Forum for Critical Enquiry, Distinction, Scotland2017: Fife Contemporary Art & Craft, Exceptional craft graduate award, Scotland
Lecturing:
Kunsthøjskolen i Holbæk, Denmark
Haxthaüser Hof Schmucksymposium, Germany
HDK-Valand, Sweden
Selected Press:
Pesti Vigadó Gallery, (2021) ‘Art work in focus - December 2021’
Klimt 02, (2021) ‘Talente Competition 2021’
Dezeen, (2019) 'Gothenburg university students create objects that respond to global topics.’
Fife Contemporary, (2018) ‘Graduate maker blog’