Gillies Adamson Semple

"Three wooden beams removed from a ruin

Retired pearl necklaces as a new kind of jewellery

Extra days in this year

Music making environments

If you open a person, you find a landscape

The pearls left behind after cremation

Building houses that become ruins

There are no nails in Somok joinery

Reminded of scenes seemingly familiar

Plans and plans and plans and plans

The home of Aino and Alvar Aalto

The collapsing roof overhead

Distances; short and long

This architecture, only here for now

Moments made a little longer

Eighty seven steps between here and there,

Eight hundred and seventy between there and here,

Eight thousand, seven hundred between now and then."

Gillies Adamson Semple is a Scottish artist based in London. He 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). In 2019 he established springseason, an artist-run gallery and project where he worked with over 50 artists in solo and group shows, seminars, dinners, and performances.