Adam Gillam studied at Liverpool John Moores University 1991-1994 and The Royal Academy Schools 1994-1997.
Currently lives and works in London
Adam Gillam’s delicate works have an impromptu quality, akin to a makeshift moment given form. His work is balanced and nuanced; scraps of material, like scraps of time, are assembled in an inventive, bricolage fashion.
Gillam improvises with different materials, and the quality of those materials and the act of working with them determines the end result in a particularly lucid way. “We are given a work that has been made step by step, of which we see all the steps at once.” (Melissa Gronlund) The process of making is both a method and an interpretive tool. Works emerge from a day-to-day engagement with utilitarian materials”. Press Release for In Constant Use at Tintype Gallery, 2020.
With a combination of various materials, printed, drawn and taped, and the part-obscured reflection of the artist and room, the works are playful, theatrical. Framed by the camera, they appear to invite the viewer, as though looking through a window, to connect the elements into some narrative, perhaps offered a clue via the suggestive titles. Soanyway Magazine, Issue 15, Summer 2023
