John gibbons artist biography
- View the impressive CV of sculptor and artist John Gibbons, detailing the Born: Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland.
- John Gibbons is a sculptor and artist whose work has been displayed in several museums and galleries, both nationally and internationally.
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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
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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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