Nicky Gilmour

My practice employs a visual language that has developed from a sculptural reading of processed raw materials and the constructed forms produced by the decision-making or ‘artifice’ of human manufacture.

Within the context of natural biological and abiotic processes I aim to investigate form, function and feedback in an attempt to visualise post oil production methods based on the constraints of solar energy economies. My work presents an open-ended critique of the model of the western industrialised logic of ‘human fabrications’.

My current work investigates a human centred, instrumental use of nature by exploring the sculptural language resulting from the interaction between the human manipulations of raw materials, which ‘progress’ human interests, and the ‘self-organisation’ and ‘goal directed behaviour’ of nature.