Painter, born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire. He gained a first-class honours degree in painting at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, 1983–7, then his master’s degree at Royal College of Art, 1987–9. Among his awards were a Hospitalfield Scholarship, 1986, and a Rome Scholarship, British School at Rome, 1989–90. Gilmour used disembodied, broken forms to depict humiliation, anger, illness and breakdown of communication, as in his solo show at William Jackson Gallery, 1994. His first one-man exhibition was in 1989 at Irvine Arts Centre, Irvine, 1989, and he participated in many group shows, including RSA Student Exhibition, 1986–7; Rome Scholars, 1980–1990, Royal College of Art, 1990; and Greenwich Festival Open Studios, 1992. Jill George, in association with William Jackson, gave Gilmour a solo exhibition in 1997.