artist statement
I love paper!
The secret of paper making migrated in the third century from China, to Vietnam, Tibet and by the fourth century to Korea and Japan. Joomchi is a traditional Korean technique of felting Mulberry fibers (Hanji). The process is quite meditative and joyful, even though it requires lot of energy and strength. Joomchi enables me to play with the structure, to alter the properties of the fibers from smooth leather-like to strong textural paper. I am interested in creating pieces that can be changed or adjusted in the process while the basic fiber content remains present. Since nothing in life is permanent, the idea of deliberately working with impermanence of paper seems very natural. Each piece is one of a kind or made as a small limited edition.
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Practicing gratitude.

bio
Born in Warsaw, Poland Ania Gilmore received her BFA with honors in Graphic Design from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, studied printmaking, book arts and fibre at the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. Her portfolio includes works on paper, artist books, fiber art and mixed-media. Ania is a Co-Founder of New England Book Artists (NEBA) founded in 2020. Ania worked as an educator and an independent curator in the US and internationally. She curated Book Art the world of limitless and Nothing twice (Nic dwa razy) exhibitions at ArtSpace Gallery in Maynard, MA, Resonance: books in time in Rochester Public Library, Rochester NY, Resonance: books in time II in Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA and Correspondence 9th International Book Art Festival in Poland, and Joy of Freedom in Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America in New York, and the international exhibition FREEDOM Project in Łódź, Poland celebrating 30 years of the Polish Book Art Museum. In 2024, Gilmore curated FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA including selected works of artists from 22 countries to reside in the Permanent Collection of the Book Art Museum in Łódź, Poland.

In 2014 Ania was an invited artist to Gallery Nori in Jeju Island, Korea; in 2017 had a Solo Exhibition in Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea, in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2023, her work was shown at the Bojagi Forum and Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum in Seoul, Korea, and also in From Lausanne to Beijing International Fiber Art Biennale in Tsinghua University Art Museum in Beijing, China. As an awarded artist of 2016 Excellence in Fibers by Fiber Art Now magazine her work was shown at the New Bedford Art Museum. Ania’s work was featured in Art New England magazine, Woodstock magazine, Fiber Art Now magazine, published in the Artistry in Fiber: Wearable Art book by Anne Lee, and E. Ashley Rooney, The Collection of Polish Book Art from the 20th to the 21st Century at the Musashino Art University Museum in Tokyo, Japan, awarded Artscope Magazine Centerfold in May/June 2015, included in 1,000 Artists’ Books: Exploring the Book as Art book by Peter and Donna Thomas, and The Creators of the Image of Polonia by Fundacja Sedeka in Warsaw, Poland. Her works are in public and private collections in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Monaco, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, and USA.

publications
FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA

Piękno i elegancja – papierowe arcydzieła Ani Gilmore z Bostonu by Joanna Sokołowska-Gwizdka from Culture Avenue

Meet Ania Gilmore by Boston Voyager

Featured Member Ania Gilmore by New England Book Artists (NEBA)