​Angela Gilmour

Originally from Scotland and formerly a practicing physicist, Angela Gilmour now lives and works as a visual artist in West Cork, Ireland.

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Gilmour's interests and artistic practice surround the urgency of climate change, land consumption, sustainability and the political and environmental impact of land and sea borders. ​Her work includes painting, drawing and printmaking. She explores landscapes that have suffered trauma in recent or deep geological time.Through a blend of site-specific investigation and scientific research, her work documents the sublime beauty created by the destructive forces of nature.​​

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Currently Gilmour is collaborating with geologists and paleontologists based in the United States, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom researching fossilised forests and prehistoric climates as a method of communicating current topical events relating to the environmental crisis and human impacts on woodlands