We are delighted to announce that Aberdeenshire based artist Lyndsey Gilmour has received the 2026 RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting!
Funded by the MacRobert Trust, the award provides the time and financial assistance for a committed painter whose circumstances have, for whatever reason, made it difficult to focus upon and develop their artistic talent. Lyndsey Gilmour will receive £20,000, which will fund a 12-month period of research and development for a new body of work which will be exhibited at the Academy.
Born in Glasgow, Lyndsey Gilmour currently lives and works in Aberdeenshire. Working primarily with oil paint and egg tempera on steel, Gilmour draws on the domestic environment. She studies everyday objects, using shadow to navigate the space between physical reality and abstraction. By painting on sheet steel and directly onto walls, her work references the surfaces it’s created on, while exploring the relationship these paintings have to the architectural spaces they inhabit.
The RSA MacRobert Art Award will support Gilmour in developing a new body of work exploring the home as a ‘compression chamber’. Through observing everyday domestic life, she will investigate the relationships between objects, routines and lived experience.
Lyndsey said: ‘I’m really grateful to have received the RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting, which will give me the opportunity to be fully immersed in painting and bring greater focus and depth to my practice. I’m looking forward to the research and development period that lies ahead, to extend my knowledge and push my work forward. I’d like to thank The MacRobert Trust and the RSA for their support.’
