John gibbons artist biography

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Sculptor, born in Ireland, who attended Limerick School of Art, 1969–70, then St Martin’s School of Art, 1972–6. He gained a number of awards, including a Macaulay Fellowship in Sculpture, 1975; two GLAA Awards, 1978–85; an Arts Council Award, 1979; Irish Post Award, 1987; and The Lorne Award, 1992. Intach Trust and AHRB Awards followed in 2001 and an Arts Council England Award in 2005. He was several times a visiting artist, including Sculpture Space, Utica, New York, 1980; Clayworks Studio Workshop and Syracuse University, both New York in 1983; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984; and Emma Lake Artists’ Workshop, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1991. Gibbons was elected professor in 1995 and a fellow of the RBS in 2003. Took part in many group shows, solo exhibitions starting with International Arts Centre, 1975; others including Serpentine Gallery, 1986; Madeline Carter Fine Art in Boston, America, 1988; Angela Flowers/Flowers East from 1992; and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1997.

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John Gibbons

2023


Boyle Arts Festival

20.07.2023 - 07.08.2023

Main Exhibition 2023

King House

Boyle,

Co. Roscommon

Ireland



2022


‘Sculptors’Drawing Exhibition’

10.11.2022 - 07.07.2023

Catalogue Text:  Rod Mengham

Latymer Upper School

London.


2021


Sculpture At Westport Quay, 2021

Catalogue text: Catherine Marshall & Noelle Angley.

Published by: Customhouse Studios + gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland.


2019


Surface & Light: John Gibbons and Larry Poons

Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin

Catalogue text: Karen Wilkin, IRISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS: JOHN GIBBONS AND LARRY POONS.

Published by Hillsboro Fine Art, 2019

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'The Winter Garden'

Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection

Towner Art Gallery

Eastbourne

Published by the Towner Art Gallery, 2019


‘Clyde Hopkins and Friends’

Linden Hal

John Gibbons CV

2024

‘The Art of Place: People and Landscape of County Clare’, Súil, Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland.


'Winter Exhibition: Gallery & Invited Artists', Hillsboro Gallery, Dublin.


'Lacuna', The  Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, Ireland.


'Summer Exhibition', Gallary & Invited artist, Hillsboro Gallery, Dublin.


'Wail', The TCHC Viewing Room Gallery.


2023

'A Holy Show'

Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.


2022

'Abstract Matters',

Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland. 


 ‘Summer Group Exhibition’, Custom    

 House Studios Gallery, Westport, Ireland.


 ‘Sculptors’ Drawing  Exhibition’, Latimer Upper & Prep School, London.


 ‘Annual Winter Exhibition / Gallery & Invited Artists’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.                                 


2021 

‘Sculpture at Westport Quay 2021’, 

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