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Lee GILMOUR
Burning Blue 2020
Mixed media
44 x 55 x 20 cm
When: Wednesday 14 June, 3PM
Where: Ledger Gallery
Cost: FREE
Bookings: Numbers are strictly limited. To secure your place, contact the Gallery on T 03 5760 2619 or E gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au
Join us on Wednesday 14 June at 3pm for an afternoon with artist Lee Gilmour to coincide with his Gallery Shop exhibition Time Honoured State of the Art. Gilmour will discuss his work, highlighting his passion for collecting and reclaiming disused objects, how he perceives these objects, and what leads him to include them in his creations.
Gilmour describes himself as “a maker of clocks, lamps and other curious things”, drawing inspiration from objects scavenged from his surroundings and exploring ways they fit together and can be reused. In a world where disposable products, fast fashion, and single use items play only a fleeting period in our lives, Time Honoured State of the Art will seek to slow time so we may ponder on the item, to recollect its past and make a personal connection to where we were, what we were doing and how much water has passed under the bridge since their heyday.
Currently based in the Mallee, Gilmour has spent the last decade or so in a range of improvised studios in different locations, amassing and assembling a collection of found materials into unique sculptural time pieces. Recently described as a ‘contraptionist’, Gilmour’s artistic aim is to give new meaning to something that has been discarded, and to turn an ‘off cut’ into a ‘must have’ and to play around with the perceived use of an object. Gilmour enjoys experimenting with combinations of materials, marrying rust with polished surfaces, mixing items that would never have met in their original form.