{"id":2463,"date":"2013-10-17T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T06:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2013-10-17T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T06:36:43","slug":"artchat-blog-interview-38-sue-gilmour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=2463","title":{"rendered":"ArtChat [Blog Interview #38] \u2013  Sue Gilmour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"icon_link\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=2463\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p>Sue Gilmour&#8217;s paintings in &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/SusanGilmour2013.html\">Under a Southern Sky<\/a>&#8216; are atmospheric and idealised depictions of land and cityscapes. Educated in East Africa, Sue&#8217;s early life was spent moving between Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. These remote and beautiful locations would prove to have a profound affect on Sue&#8217;s art career. After graduating from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravensbourne.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">London&#8217;s Ravensbourne College of Art &amp; Design<\/a>\u00a0with a Bachelor in Fine Arts (Hon) Sue moved to North Queensland to be closer to her family, she now resides in South East Queensland.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2515\" alt=\"Sue Gilmour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG01.jpg\" width=\"760\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG01.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG01-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><strong>AC: Describe your art in a sentence.<br \/>\n<\/strong>SG: My work is not about representation but about the emotion it evokes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: Who or what inspired you to become an artist?<br \/>\n<\/strong>SG: The seeds were planted by my parents, unwittingly probably. My father introduced me to classical music at 5 years and the illustrations on the record covers often depicted great painters such as Turner. They also loved art, theatre and ballet and our house had framed prints of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/hd\/verm\/hd_verm.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Vermeer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/hd\/dgsp\/hd_dgsp.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Degas<\/a> and some local African artists. I was hooked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC:\u00a0 Why do you paint the scenes you do?<br \/>\n<\/strong>SG: I am influenced by the weather and the environment and what\u2019s happening such as floods or drought. I don\u2019t make a conscience decision, I have a vague idea of what I want to express and then the painting takes over. I make the final conscious marks at the end of the painting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2517\" alt=\"Sue Gilmour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG02.jpg\" width=\"760\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG02.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG02-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><strong>AC: What music do you listen to while painting?<br \/>\n<\/strong>SG: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobmarley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Marley<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobmarley.com\/life_and_legacy_bob_marley_and_the_wailers.php\" target=\"_blank\">and The Wailers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulkelly.com.au\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Kelly<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvbeethoven.com\/Bio\/BiographyLudwig.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beethoven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: Tell our readers something about yourself that may surprise them?<br \/>\n<\/strong>SG: My favourite T.V. program is reruns of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068098\/\" target=\"_blank\">M.A.S.H.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: What is your favourite quote or saying?<br \/>\n<\/strong>SG: \u2018You can\u2019t call yourself an artist until you have resolved 150 paintings.\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/nga.gov.au\/Exhibition\/WILLIAMS\/Default.cfm?MNUID=6\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Williams.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>AC: If you could work with any other artist from any era who would it be and why?<br \/>\n<\/strong>SG: <a href=\"http:\/\/nga.gov.au\/Exhibition\/WILLIAMS\/Default.cfm?MNUID=6\" target=\"_blank\">Picasso<\/a>. He lived in an amazing \u00a0time, historically, culturally and socially and was a prolific artist for over 70\u00a0\u00a0 years.\u00a0 I never appreciated his work until I saw it at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musee-picasso.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Musee Picasso, Paris<\/a>[ 2007], the real thing as opposed to books and print. His ability as a painter, draughtsman, sculptor, ceramicist, theatre designer and recycler of objects would make working with him an adventure. He was also a great art collector of his peers work.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2518\" alt=\"Sue Gilmour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG03.jpg\" width=\"760\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG03.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG03-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a>\u00a9\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">www.redhillgallery.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=499790883388518\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=2463\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"150\" action=\"recommend\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareSue Gilmour&#8217;s paintings in &#8216;Under a Southern Sky&#8216; are atmospheric and idealised depictions of land and cityscapes. 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