Ideal Paste Adam Gillam

24 April – 8 June 2013

“I am interested in fabricating structures that operate as a means to view and frame actual space, surroundings and real time encounters.”

Adam Gillam’s delicate structures have an impromptu quality, akin to a makeshift moment given form. His work is beautifully balanced and nuanced; scraps of material, like scraps of time, are assembled in an inventive, bricolage fashion. The works in Ideal Paste developed from months of preparatory work in the studio but are also semi-improvised in response to the architecture of the gallery space and the experience of working in it.

Adam Gillam

Ideal Paste, 2013

Installation view

Adam Gillam

Twinrider, 2013

Acrylic, modroc, gloss paint, bead, fabric 33.5 x 51 cm

Adam Gillam

Outline, 2013

Aluminium armature, string, brass, metal fixings 30.5 x 38 cm

Adam Gillam

Windeye, 2013

Wood, hessian, plaster, beads, paint, chinagraph marker, marker pen, string, plastic letter 68 x 62 x 64 cm

Adam Gillam

Codicote, 2013

Aluminium, bulldog clips, beads, bolts, stationery tags, paint, wood and plastic 267 x 30 x 2 cm

Adam Gillam

Nessy 8, 2013

Acrylic, beads, dowls, chinagraph markings, paper binders, foam, modroc, paint, tape, graphite rubbing 125.5 x 76 x 7 cm

Adam Gillam

Crazycarli, 2013

Acrylic, dowls, paper binders, painted paper, chinagraph marking, bead, peg, rubber ball, aluminium rods 125.5 x 89 x 17 cm

Adam Gillam

Crazycarli, 2013

Detail

Adam Gillam

Codicote, 2013

Detail

Adam Gillam

Codicote, 2013

Detail