​Earlier this month the University of Edinburgh obtained two works by Ann Marie Gilmore for its extensive institutional collection. These were the 1980s watercolour “Andean Boy” and a giclee print of the 1986 drawing “the Old (College) Quad” (pictured) Following a meeting with Neil Lebeter, Deputy Head of Museums, to mark the acquisition the artist’s brother, Professor Bill Gilmore, expressed the delight of the family at this development, saying:

“Ann Marie studied at the Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Though then an independent institution, dating back to 1760, it has recently merged with the University of Edinburgh. Her works now join an impressive and extensive collection which includes pieces by some of those who taught her and others with whom she studied”.

He also noted that in their discussions Neil had remarked that the collection held by the University contains relatively few images of the Old College, the iconic heart of the institution. Ann Marie’s pen and ink drawing perhaps is the only one which captures the curious misuse of its Quadrangle as a car park over many years in the last century. As the photograph below indicates the cars are now gone and its architectural glory is now much more appropriately framed. The Old College is also the location of the Talbot Rice Gallery of the University.

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We are delighted to announce that as a result of generous public donations, the 'Alloway 432' exhibition has raised over £1600 to support brain cancer research, the disease from which Ann Marie Gilmore died in 2006.

​On 23 March the artist's brother and sister-in-law , Professor Bill Gilmore and Dr Patricia Shepherd, visited the Edinburgh Centre for Neuro-Oncology (ECNO) at Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital to hand over the money.

At the same time the family presented Gill, a Clinical Nurse Specialist at ECNO, with a framed self portrait of the artist to be displayed for the enjoyment of present and future patients and staff at the centre.