John Gibbons
2021
The Art of Place
People and landscape of County Clare
Editors: Peadar King & Anne Jones
Photography: John Kelly
The Liffey Press
PP 294 (J.G. 82 - 91)
ISBN 978-1-8383593-9-3
Midnight in the Kant Hotel
Rod Mengham
Little Island Press/Carcanet
PP 301 (J.G. 121-132)
ISBN: 978 1 80017 147 3
2019
Anthony Caro, Stainless Steel
Karen Wilkin
Lund Humphries
PP 103 (J.G. VII, pp 71-73)
ISBN; 978-1-84822-348-6
2018
Finding Nemon
Aurelia Young with Julian Hale
Peter Owen Publishers
PP 224 (J.G. pp. 86)
ISBN 978-0-7206-2037-5
Grimspound and Inhabiting Art
Rod Mengham
Carcanet, 2018
PP 256 (J.G. PP 136 - 137)
ISBN 978 1 78410 590 7
Tucker
Kosme de Baranano
Laboratorio para el arte, Estudios Durero
PP 221 (J.G. pp 32)
ISBN: 978-84-09-01011-0
D.L.: B1-649-2018
2016
Artist Boss
Editor: Jenny Dunseath & Mark Wilsher
Wunderkammer Press
PP 191 (J.G. PP 47 - 58)
ISBN: 978-099355511-0-9 (paperback)
2014
Art and Architecture of Ireland
(in five volumes)
General Editor: Andrew Carpenter
Volume III
Sculpture 1600 - 2000
Editor: Paula Murphy
PP 584 (J.G. 137 - 139, images reproduced: ‘The Dream’, 1977-78 & ‘The Beginning’, 1995, Text: ‘John Gibbons’ by Jon Wood. 500 - 501, image reproduced: ‘Jane/E/and Still’, 2008-9 & ‘Gráinne/Saying Hello’, 2008-09. Text: ‘Portrait Sculpture’ by Paula Murphy).
Published for the Royal Irish Academy and The Paul Mellon Centre by Yale University Press, Dublin, New Haven, London.
ISBN: 978-0-300-17921-7 (V.3)
Caro by Anthony Caro
Project Editor: Rosie Pickles
PP 461 (J.G. 285)
Phaidon Press Ltd, 2014
ISBN 978 0 7148 6735 9
The Understory
Rod Mengham
Corrupt Press, 2014, ,
(J.G. PP 9, Front & Back covers)
ISBN: 979-10-90394-47-6
2012
Five Portraits for John Gibbons
Rod Mengham
Bell Book, Wide Range Chapbooks, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. Series Editor: John Kinsella.
2011
Sculpture at Canary Wharf: A Decade of Exhibitions
Theresa Bergne, Ann Elliott & Sally Williams
PP 248, (J.G. 86-87, 104, 245), 'Transference', 2001-2, 'As One', 2001-2, 'Rhythm/Play', 1999-2000, 'Being There', 1999-2000, 'Dawn's Domain', 2001-2, 'For All To See', 2004, reproduced. Text; 'North, South, East and West, John Gibbons: New Work', Ann Elliott.
Published by Canary Wharf Group, 2011
ISBN 978-0-9563648-1-4
2010
Dictionary of Living Irish Artists
Robert O’ Byrne
Editor: Alma Carey-Zuniga
PP 400, (J.G. 136-137), ‘First Moment’, 2006 - 07, reproduced.
Published by Plurabelle Publishing Ltd, Dublin, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9563011-0-9
Review 2009/2010 National Portrait Gallery
Project managed by Denise Ellitson
PP 36, (J.G. 14), ‘Your Story/White Blackbird’, 2008 – 09 reproduced.
Published by National Portrait Gallery, London, 2010
ISBN: 978 1 85514 437 8
2008
Dictionnaire International de la Sculpture Moderne & Contemporaine
Alain Monvoisin, Editor
Pp 563, (J.G. 207), ‘The Awaiting’, 1991-92, reproduced. Collection, Tate.
Published by Editions du Regard, Paris, 2008.
ISBN: 978-2-84105-211-0
2006
Art In State Buildings, 1995 – 2005
Penny Harris, Editor
PP. 192 (J.G. 153)
Patrick J. Murphy, Research director
Text: Art in State Buildings 1995 – 2005, Dr. Yvonne Scott, pp. vii – xiv
Text: Art in Public Spaces 1995 – 2005, An inside perspective, Patrick J. Murphy
Text: Commissioning under the Per Cent for Art Scheme – The OPW Experience, Angela Rolfe
Published by the Stationery Office, 2006
ISBN: 0-7557-7401-9
‘Artists in Britain Since 1945’
Volume 1
A to L
David Buckman
Art Dictionaries 2006
PP 1882 (J.G. 583)
ISBN 10: 0 9532260 95 X
ISBN 13: 9780953260959
2005
Modern British Sculpture
Guy Portelli, Editor.
pp 320, (J.G. 198 – 200, 7 Images reproduced, 195-200; text, 'From Form To Metaphor: John Gibbons' Sculpture' by Paul Moorhouse, first published in 'John Gibbons, Form & Content', Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, 1996, ISBN 0 907074 62 6)
Published in the USA by Schiffer Publications Ltd.
ISBN: 0-7643-2111-0
2002
A Vision for Twenty-First Century British Sculpture
pp, 408, (J.G. 136-139, 3 images reproduced).
Ann Elliot, Text, 354, 355.
Sculpture at Goodwood.
ISBN 0-9537794-2-4
British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century
Alan Windsor, Editor,
pp 76,
Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 1 85928 4566
2000
'Tate Facts'
Simon Wilson, Editor.
pp 13.
Tate Gallery Publishing LTD.
ISBN 1 85437 348X, (Set of two books)
1999
'Artists'
Gautier Deblonde, Photographs, pp 30.
Mel Gooding, Text, pp 7-14.
Tate Publishing.
ISBN 1 85437 291 2.
1998
'The Dictionary of Artist in Britain since 1945'
David Buckman, Editor
pp, 45
Art Dictionaries Ltd,.
ISBN 0 953260 9 09
1996
'Who's Who in Art'
pp, 187
ISBN 0900083166
1995
'ARTODAY'
Edward Lucie-Smith, Editor.
New British Sculpture, pp 288-291.
Phaidon.
ISBN 0 7148 3888 8
1988
'The Arts Council Collection, Acquisition 1984-88'
Arts Council of Great Britain,
The South Bank Centre.
pp 32.
ISBN 1 85332 049 8
1982
'Contemporary Irish Art'
Roderic Knowles; Editor,
pp 142
Wolfhound Press.
ISBN 0-86327-001-8.
1979
'Arts Council Collection'
Illustrated purchases for the Arts Council of Great Britain,
collected between 1942 – 1978, pp104,
Isobel Johnstone, Curator,
Arts Council of Great Britain.
ISBN 0 7287 0212 6
2001
The Invisibility of Irish Migrants in British Health Research
Patrick J. Bracken & Patrick O'Sullivan Irish Studies Review, Vol 9, No 1, 2001 ISSN, 0967-0882 print/1469-9303 online/01/010041-11 © 2001 Taylor and Francis Ltd. Vol.10.1080/09670880020032681, pp.43&45, 2 images reproduced.
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
'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 Hall Studio, Deal, Kent.
Publishes by: Linden Hall Studio, 2019.
2018
‘Thirty Years of Contemporary Art
Jesus College
Cambridge
1988 - 2018’
PP 78, (J.G. 7,9,12,45,50 & 78) Text: Ian White & Colin Renfrew
Published in 2018 by Jesus College, Cambridge
ISBN 978-1-5272-3053-8
‘The Secret Life of Stuff’
Arthouse1, London. Curated by Catherine Ferguson & Della Godden
Text: Catherine Ferguson & Della Gooden
Publishes in 2018 by Arthouse1, London
2017
'John Gibbons: The Messengers'
PP 48. Text: Rod Mengham, 'Maintaining Transmission: the work of John Gibbons'. John Daly, 'John Gibbons: Radiators for the soul'.
Published in 2017 by Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
ISBN: 978-1-909725-04-1
2016
‘Two Birds/One Stone’
Curated by Janet Mullarney, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin,
Published in 2016 by the Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland
Limited edition of 500.
‘Royal Ulster Academy of Arts 2016’
135th. Annual Exhibition
Ulster Museum
PP 176 (J.G. 48 & 153)
ISBN 978-1-909751-60-6
Royal Ulster Academy of Arts
‘From Edge To Edge, 1916-2016’
100 years of Art from County Clare
Curated by Catherine Marshall
PP 9 (J.G. 1, 2 & 5)
Glor, Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland.
2015
'Making It: Sculpture in Britain, 1977 - 1986'
Curated by Natalie Rudd and Jon Wood
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park: 1April - 21 June 2015
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, 8 October - 29 November 2015
Edinburgh Art Centre, 7 May - 3 July 2016
Published in 2015 by Hayward Publishing,
Southbank Centre, London.
PP 144 ( J.G. PP, 10,15,72,73,135)
ISBN 978 1 85332 329 4
‘Sale Of Work’
Berloni Gallery, London.
‘1974 - 2014, PRESENT CONTINU:
QUARANTA ANYS
DE LA
GALERIA CANEM
A CASTELLO’
Sala san Miguel
Fundacion Caja Castellon
Centro del Carmen
Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana ISBN: 978-84-15301-59-2
2014
‘Artist of the Day, since 1983’
Flowers Gallery
ISBN: 978-1-906412-65-4
‘Boyle Arts Festival 2014’
Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland.
2011
'Three +'
John Gibbons / Larry Poons
Peter Randall-Page / Alan Davie
Michael Warren / Robert Motherwell
Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
Text; John Daly: Three + , PP 3-12.
ISBN: 978-0-9564950-5-1
2010
‘John Gibbons Light/Listen Selected Sculpture 1991-2010'
Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
Text; Paul Moorhouse: ‘Listen with your eyes – The sculpture of John Gibbons’, Rod Mengham: ‘In Conversation … The Artist in conversation with Rod Mengham’, ‘Thoughts’: John Gibbons.
ISBN: 978-0-9564950-0-6
Royal Hibernian Academy One Hundred and Eightieth Annual Exhibition
Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
PP 96, (J.G., 70)
ISBN: 1-903875-54-4
2009
‘John Gibbons Portraits’
National Portrait Gallery, London
Limited Edition Set of 5 Postcards
Text; Paul Moorhouse
‘John Gibbons The Mayo Drawings’
Jesus College, Cambridge
Text, Rod Mengham: ‘Feeling For Tremors: The Drawings Of John Gibbons’.
'Mapping Form Drawing & Sculpture'
Macroom Town Hall Gallery, Macroom, Ireland
Text, 'LIKE A HINGE
John Gibbons interviewed by Rod Mengham'
ISBN 978-0-9556528-1-3 0-9556528-1-2
Royal Hibernian Academy One Hundred and Seventy Ninth Annual Exhibition
Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Pp 112, (J.G., 79)
ISBN: 1-903875-50-1
2008
‘The Napoleon Garden Holland Park Ten Years of Contemporary Sculpture’
Pp.27 (J.G.;16,17)
Catalogue text; Anna Stamatiou
2007
'Light'
Winchester Cathedral, Winchester
ISBN: 978-0-90,3346-37-5
Curated by, John Gibbons
'Light': A total Installation
Rod Mengham
The setting for this exhibition is infused not only with the exact ratio of light and shade predominant on any given day, but with more than nine hundred years of thinking about the meaning of light in
'Sculpture in the Close 2007'
Jesus College, Cambridge, pp.24. (J.G.; 8-10; 2 Image reproduced)
Rod Mengham, Catalogue text.
ISBN 0 9529665 4 9
'Cass Sculpture Foundation, 2004-2007'
Goodwood,
Text: Stephanie Cripps, Amy Puttman, James Tregaskes, Kate Sims.
Ed Wilde, Editing.
Pp80,81, 137 & 138.
ISBN 978-0-9537794-5-1
2006
'Royal Academy Illustrated 2006'
Alison Wilding, Editor
Pp129
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 1-903973-76-7
2005
'North, South, East and West, John Gibbons: New Work'
Sculpture in the Workplace, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London,
Anna Elliott, Pamphlet text.
'Sculpture in the Close 2005'
Jesus College, Cambridge, pp.24. (J.G.; 7; 1 Image reproduced, 6&7.
Rod Mengham. Catalogue text.
ISBN 0 9529665 2 2.
'Angela Flowers Gallery, 35th Anniversary Exhibition 2005'
Flowers East, London, 2005, pp 88 (J.G.; 26 & 27; 1 image reproduced, 5;)
Robert Heller, Catalogue text.
ISBN 1902945462.
'John Gibbons Charles Tyrrell'
Taylor Galleries, Dublin
ISBN 0-9551415-0-8
'John Gibbons and Charles Tyrrell: A Dialogue'
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith
This temporary coming together of the work of two quite different artists is more akin to a conversation than collaboration. Born of a sense of mutual respect that gradually evolved over a
2004
'Tom Bendham: Collector'
Contemporary Art Society Exhibition, Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, London and touring; pp72, (J. G. 3 images reproduced).
Anna Elliott, Catalogue text, pp,11,12.
ISBN 0-9517550-2-1
2003
'The Post-Industrial Landscape'
The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic, pp 54, (J.G.; 20 – 25; 9 images reproduced).
Matthew Cheeseman, Catalogue text, pp, 20, 21.
ISBN: 80 -7056-116-5
2002
'Thinking Big Concepts for Twenty-First Century British Sculpture'
Peggy Guggenheim Collection', Venice, Italy. PP.174,
(J.G., section 23; 4 pages, 2 images reproduced).
Rod Mengham, Catalogue text, 'British Sculpture: – An Open Book' section 04.
ISBN 0-9537794-3-2
'The National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland'
New Additions 2002, Bourn Vincent Gallery,
John Logan, Catalogue text, pp 5.
University of Limerick, Ireland
2001
'STEELWORKS'
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India.
PP 10, (J.G.; 3 - 4; 5 images reproduced).
Ranjit Hoskote, Catalogue text, pp, 2.
2000
'Sculpture, an Abbey and a Cathedral'
Dr. Judith Collins, Catalogue text, pp 8,9 and 17.
ISBN 1861740859
'British Contemporary Sculpture 00/01'
Ann Elliott, Catalogue text, pp. 58,59,103.
Sculpture at Goodwood.
ISBN 0953779408
'Sculpture and The Divine'
Zuleika Dobson, Exhibition guide text,
Winchester Cathedral, Winchester,
1999
'0044'
PSI, MOMA, New York, Albright-Knox Gallery Buffalo, New York, Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
Vera Ryan, Catalogue text, pp 64,65,68,69.
ISBN 0946846 243.
'British Contemporary Sculpture 99/00'
Ann Elliott, Catalogue text, pp 58-59-107.
Sculpture at Goodwood.
ISBN 0952523396
'John Gibbons'
'Being' Nograd History Museum, Salgotarjan
Andre Hovarth Gallery, Balassagyarmat, Hungary
'Body and Soul', Flowers East, London,
'From the Hand', Taylor Galleries, Dublin
Karen Wilkin, Catalogue text, 'The Sculpture of John Gibbons',
pp 3-8, 17-22.
ISBN 1 873362 99 4
1998
'John Gibbons, The Small Sculptures 1981 – 1998'
Lothbury Gallery, London.
Paul Moorhouse, Catalogue text, 'Intimation and Intimacy': John Gibbons', Sculpture, pp 6-9.
ISBN 0 9530716 2 X
'John Gibbons Signs of Passage'
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
Vera Ryan, Catalogue text, 'Signs of Passage', pp 5,
6,15.
ISBN 0 9519146 42
'25 Years Kilkenny Arts Week | Butler Gallery'
The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
Mebh Ruane, Catalogue text, 'Kilkenny Arts Week'.
1997
'John Gibbons Form and Content'
Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Kettles Yard & Flowers East, London.
Paul Moorhouse, Catalogue text, 'From Form to Metaphor: John Gibbons' Sculpture', pp 5 - 23
ISBN 0 907074 62 6
1996
'John Gibbons From Night To Day'
The Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
Aidan Dunne, Catalogue text, pp 2 – 4.
'FIS'
A Collaborative Project between Artist and Architects,
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland,
John Gibbons & Eilis O'Donnell, pp 36 & 37.
Nathalie Weadick & Ralph Bingham, Editor's.
IMMA 1996
FIS Publishing, National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland.
ISBN 0 9529127 0 8
1995
'Irish Steel'
Mark Ewart, Catalogue text, pp 36 - 37.
Images, 37,38, 39, 42 & 43.
ISBN 0946641595.
'British Abstract Art, Part 2: Sculpture'
Flowers East, London.
Bryan Robertson, Catalogue text, pp15,
ISBN 1 873362 45 5
1994
'Lead and Follow The Continuity of Abstraction'
Bede Gallery, Jarrow & Atlantis Gallery, London.
Rebecca Fortnum; Introduction.
ISBN 1 898 669 03 1
1992
'John Gibbons, New Sculpture'
Angela Flowers Gallery, London Fields, London.
ISBN 1 873362 18 8
1990
'JOHN GIBBONS'
Flowers East Gallery, London
Tim Marlow, Catalogue text.
ISBN 1 873362 00 5
1987
Art Triangle Barcelona 1987
Teresa Blanch, Catalogue text, pp 180,
Karen Wilkin, Catalogue text, pp 182.
ISBN-84-7609-210-5
1986
'John Gibbons Sculpture 1981 - 86',
Serpentine Gallery, London.
Michael Harrison, Catalogue text, 'Temples of the Spirit'.
ISBN 07287 04935.
'Hardingham Sculpture Workshop'
Sainsbury Centre, Norwich
Images,pp, 8 & 9.
Valentine Tatransky, Catalogue text, pp,11,12,13,14 & 15
'John Gibbons/Mali Morris'
Woodlands Art Gallery, London.
Tim Hilton, Catalogue Text.
'Open - Air Sculpture Show'
Lincoln, Hull & Scunthorpe.
Louise West, Catalogue text.
1985
'Beyond Appearances'
Sculpture for the visually handicapped and sighted to share,
Arts Council Touring Exhibition:
Nottingham Castle Museum, Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Caernarvon Museum Mold, Oriel Theatre Clwyd, Barnsley, Cooper Gallery, pp15.
Michaela Butter, Introduction.
ISBN 0 7287 0453 6
1984
'Monument'
Bassin Art Centre, Maastricht; Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
John Gibbons & Stephen Salmine Marshall
‘Arts Council Collection Acquisitions 1979 - 83’
A concise illustrated catalogue of Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, and Photographs
purchased for the Arts Council of Great Britain between 1979 and 1983
PP 107 ( J.G. 44)
Published by Arts Council of Great Britain, 1984
ISBN 0 7287 04129
1983
'Why Sculpture - Part 1'
West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham, Surrey.
Dave King; Introduction.
Stuart Morgan; Text, 'Fathers and Sons'.
Brendan Prendeville; Text, 'Questions about Sculpture (and some tentative answers)'.
1982
'Triangle Artists' Workshop'
Inaugural Year, 1982
Anthony Caro & Robert Loder, Editors.
1981
'John Gibbons Sculpture'
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London.
Geoff Rigden, Catalogue text.
1980
'The Material Object'
Hayden Gallery, Boston, USA.
Kathy Halbreich, Catalogue text.
'Sculpture and Painting at Canterbury'
Royal Museum, St. Augustine's Gardens & Canterbury College of Art Gallery, Canterbury.
'Air & Space Appeal Fund'
Contemporary Art Auction,
Lucy Havelock-Allen, Editor.
A.I.R. Gallery, London.
ISBN 0 907344 00 3.
1979
'John Gibbons Small Sculptures'
Project Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
John McLean, Catalogue text.
'Style in the Seventies'
Liz Lydiate, Catalogue text.
ISBN 0309 2151
'The First Exhibition'
Nicola Jacobs Gallery,
London.
1978
'New Sculpture: Three Shows'
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
Richard Stokes, Catalogue text.
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