Gillies Adamson Semple is a Scottish born, London-based artist and curator working with modes of display and apparatus to build and present visual syntax. Often isolating moments from conversation and systems of communication; phrases, images and diagrams become repositioned and re-evaluated within constructed frameworks, attempting to give a different voice for material with ‘real-world’ provenance. His work looks at repositioning histories as counter-weights to nostalgia, drawing from moments of personal encounter and broader events as material to become reframed within his own visual language.
Gillies Adamson Semple is a graduate of Central Saint Martins, The Royal Institute of Art Stockholm, and The Slade School of Fine Art where he obtained his MFA in 2022. He is a recent recipient of the Boise Scholarship in 2022, from which he conducted research at the Basilica Valere in Switzerland with the oldest pipe organ in the world. Selected shows include Volumes at Cedric Bardawil (London), On Intimate Terms with the Prairie at Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo), Small Sculptures at Sharp Projects (Copenhagen) and Chord, Accord at Des Bains (London).
Gillies Adamson Semple is a graduate of Central Saint Martins, The Royal Institute of Art Stockholm, and The Slade School of Fine Art where he obtained his MFA in 2022. He is a recent recipient of the Boise Scholarship in 2022, from which he conducted research at the Basilica Valere in Switzerland with the oldest pipe organ in the world. Selected shows include Volumes at Cedric Bardawil (London), On Intimate Terms with the Prairie at Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo), Small Sculptures at Sharp Projects (Copenhagen) and Chord, Accord at Des Bains (London).
