Individual Residencies
2021 | Ruth Gilmour
Considering my residency as a return to place, I investigated my maternal and paternal ancestors who emigrated to Scotland from Collemacchia and Filignano at the turn of the 20th Century.
Searching for un/familiar kinships, my fieldwork and research responded to place and intergenerational transmission, to develop my understanding of the different ways in which our bodies are informed to evolve, deviate and heal.
Discovering that a restorative kind of mysticism can occur during the artistic manipulation of natural materials, I was motivated to develop interpretations of ex-votos – artworks of gratitude created in response to the success of a healing ritual.