Artist Profile

Mackayla Gilmour is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, working on the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her practice spans drawing, painting, and sculpture, investigating the relationships between repetition, memory, and evolving visual languages. Through layered forms and recurring motifs, Gilmour examines how images and symbols circulate across time, connecting historical references with contemporary experience. Her work reflects an interest in the ways patterns, gestures, and material processes shape perception, creating compositions that feel both familiar and quietly disorienting. Balancing formal experimentation with conceptual inquiry, Mackayla Gilmour’s practice invites viewers to consider how the past continues to echo within present-day visual culture.