Cardboard Vehicle By Chris Gilmour

Chris Gilmour is an English artist specialising in the creation of life-sized sculptures made of recycled cardboard and glue, using both plain packaging cardboard and recycled packaging material. His works replicate in painstaking detail many objects and machines out of our ordinary lives, ranging from objects from daily life, such as bicycles, motorbikes, cars, cafetieres, chairs, etc. to small models of religious architecture, in an ironic "desecration” by the graphics of the packaging, by juxtaposing these religious symbols and the "profane" icons of modern consumer life and culture, such as condoms, toothpaste, etc. Born in Stockport in Great Britain, he moved to Udine, Italy in 1997, where he is currently based. He has undertaken numerous group and solo shows around Europe and in America.
Through his career and artistic development, there has been a progression in the choice of objects portrayed by Gilmour, which go from smaller domestic items (like the moka or the typewriter) to objects which are larger and belong to a broader cultural context (the Fiat 500, the Lambretta and, more recently, James Bond's iconic Aston Martin).