John Gibbons
1949
Born: Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland.
1972-1976
St Martin's School of Art, London.
1970 - 1972
Crawford Municipal School of Art, Cork, Ireland.
1970
Limerick School of Art, Limerick, Ireland.
Tate, London
Arts Council England
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The Modern Art Centre / Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
MACBA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Kasser Art Foundation, USA
The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague
The Whitworth Art Gallery , Manchester
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Syracuse University, New York , USA
OPW, Environmental Protection Agency, Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford, Ireland
OPW, Dublin, Ireland
The National Self-Portrait Collection, University of Limerick, Ireland
Nograd History Museum, Salgotarjan, Hungary
Contemporary Arts Society, Dublin
Contemporary Art Society, London
The Comino Foundation
Sculpture at Goodwood
Imperial College Healthcare Charity Art Collection, London
The Ballinglen Archive, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo,
Ireland
Cork County Council, Cork, Ireland
Bank of Montreal
B.Z.W. London
Bradford Museums, Cartwright Hall, Bradford
2018
Fundacion Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico.
2017
Visiting artist, Vermont Studio Centre, VT, USA.
2015
Visiting Artist, Sculpture Marathon, New York Studio School.
2011
The Heinrich Böll Association, Achill, Co Mayo, Ireland.
Cill Rialaig Project, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
2010
RHA studio, Dublin.
2009
Elected member of Aosdána.
Emeritus Professor, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
2008
Fellowship, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2013.
2003
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
2001
Invited artist, 'Steelworks,' Jindal Art Foundation, first international artists residency at the Jindal Iron and Steel Company, Mumbai, India.
1997
The Sirius Project. Cobh, Co Cork, Ireland.
1995
Elected Professor
Participated in 'the Table of Silence'. International seminar of catlaytic sculpture Fundatia Culturala Romana, Bucharest, Romania.
1991
Guest Sculptor; Emma Lake Artist Workshop, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada, with guest painter Kenneth Noland.
1987
Participated in 'Art Triangle Barcelona', Barcelona, Spain.
1986
Guest Sculptor; Triangle Artists Workshop, Pine Plains, NY, USA, with guest painter Larry Poons.
Participated in the Hardingham Sculpture Workshop, Hardingham, Norfolk, England.
1985
Participated in Medicine Hat Sculpture Symposium, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
1984
Visiting Artist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., USA on 'Four Sculptors' Programme.
1983
Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
Visiting Artist, Clayworks Studio Workshop, NYC, USA.
1982
Participated in 'Triangle Artists Workshop' Pine Plains, NY, USA.
1980
Visiting Artist, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, USA
2007
Curated: Year of Sculpture 2007:
'Rummage – Sculptors' Drawing', The Winchester Gallery, Winchester.
'Light', Winchester Cathedral, Winchester.
2000
Curator: 'Sculpture and the Divine', Winchester Cathedral, Winchester.
'Sculpture and the Divine', introduction to exhibition guide 'Sculpture and the Divine', Winchester Cathedral, Winchester.
1998
Curator: 'Sculpture for Winchester', Winchester Cathedral, Winchester.
1992
Selector for the Whitechapel Open. Whitechapel Art Gallery. London.
1990
Gonzalez; A Legacy. Introduction to catalogue, Julio Gonzalez. The South Bank Centre. Whitechapel.
2008
Bryan Robertson Trust Award.
2005
Arts Council England.
2001
AHRB Award.
Intach Trust.
British Council.
1992
The Lorne Award.
1987
Irish Post Award.
1985
G.L.A.A. Award.
1983
National Endowment for the Arts, Invitational Residency
The Clayworks Studio Workshop, New York, USA.
1979
Arts Council Award (Major).
1978
G.L.A.A. Award (Major).
1975
Macaulay Fellowship in Sculpture, The Irish Arts Council.
1973
The Pratt Bequest.
2019
'John Gibbons and Larry Poons: Surface & Light', Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin.
2017
‘John Gibbons: Sculpture / Transmissions’, West Court Gallery, Jesus Collage, Cambridge.
‘John Gibbons:The Messengers’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
2015
‘John Gibbons: A Line of Thought, Sculpture 1980-2014’, Unit 61, Parkside, Deptford, London, England.
2014
'John Gibbons, Colour/Light, Drawing & Wall Based Scuplture', Custom House Studios Gallery, Westport, Ireland
2011
‘John Gibbons: Sculpture & Drawing’, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London.
2010
‘John Gibbons Light/Listen’, Selected Sculptures 1991-2010, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
'John Gibbons', Art In Focus, Charing Cross Hospital, London, 2010-2011.
2009
'John Gibbons Portraits', National Portrait Gallery,London, 2009-2010.
'John Gibbons The Mayo Drawings’, Jesus College, Cambridge
2007
'Endless Sky/And Other Stories', Flowers Central, London.
2006
'John Gibbons', Canem Galeria, Castello, Spain.
2005
'North, South, East and West, John Gibbons' New Work: Sculpture in the Workplace, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London
'John Gibbons Charles Tyrrell' , Taylor Galleries, Dublin Ireland
2003
'As One – New Sculptures,' Flowers East, London
2002
'Untold,' The Napoleon Garden, Holland Park, London
2001
'John Gibbons,' Flowers Central, London
1999
'Being', Nograd History Museum, Salgotarjan, Hungary
'Being', Endre Horvath Gallery, Balassagyarmat, Hungary
'Body and Soul', Flowers East, London
'From the Hand' Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1998
John Gibbons 'The Small Sculpture 1981 - 98' Lothbury Gallery, London.
John Gibbons 'Signs of Passage', Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
John Gibbons 'Signs of Passage', Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
1997
'Form and Metaphor' Kettles Yard, Cambridge
'Form and Metaphor', The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
'John Gibbons. 'New Sculpture'. Flowers East at London Fields, London
1996
'From Night to Day', Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
Flowers Graphics, London
1994
Flowers East, London
1992
'John Gibbons, New Sculpture', Angela Flowers Gallery, London Fields, London
1990
Flowers East Gallery, London
1988
John Gibbons, 'Small Sculptures 1981-87', Madeleine Carter Fine Art, Boston, Mass, USA
1987
Galerie Wentzel, Koln, Germany
‘John Gibbons / Mali Morris’, Woodlands Art Gallery, London.
1986
John Gibbons, Sculpture 1981-86', Serpentine Gallery, London
John Gibbons Sculpture, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton
1984
The Triangle Centre, New York, USA
1981
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1979
Project Gallery, Dublin
1975
International Arts Centre, London
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’,
Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
'Working between Colour and Tone'
Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle Co. Mayo, Ireland.
‘Small is Beautiful XXXIX, Flowers Central, London.
‘Winter Exhibition / Gallery & Invited Artists’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
2020
'25 Years/25 Artists' Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
2019
‘The Weather Garden, Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection', Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne.
‘Summer Exhibition: Gallery & Invited Artists’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
‘Clyde Hopkins and Friends’, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent.
‘Winter Exhibition / Gallery & Invited Artists’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
2018
‘The Secret Life of Stuff’, ARTHOUSE1, London.
‘Gallery & Invited Artists’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
2017
‘International Works’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
‘Gallery & Invited Artists’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
2016
‘Making It, Sculpture in Britain 1977 - 1986’, Edinburgh Art Centre, Edinburgh.
'Two Birds/One Stone', Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin.
‘Artist Boss’, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury.
‘Now & Then’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
'Invited Artist, RUA 135th. Annual Exhibition’, Ulster Museum, Belfast.
‘From Edge To Edge, 1916-2016’, 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, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick.
'Quaranta Anys De La Galeria Canem A Castello', 1974 - 2014, Sala San Miguel, Fundacio Caixa Castello, Spain.
‘Sale Of Work’, Berloni Gallery, London.
‘Construction Industry: Contemporary Assemblage, Construction and Relief’ APT Gallery, London.
‘Gallery & Invited Artists’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
‘Quintessence’, Berni Gallery, Jersey Art Centre, Jersey
2014
‘GIBBONS/WALKER/WARREN’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
Boyle Arts Festival 2014, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland.
‘Gallery & Invited Artists’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
‘Winter Exhibition 2014’, Custom House Studios Gallery, Westport, Ireland
‘Small Is Beautiful’, Flowers, NYNY.
2013
‘Iron & Steel’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
‘Anon Is Anall, III’, Glor, Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland.
‘The Cardiff Sessions’, The Sidney Nolan Trust, Powys.
‘Gallery & Invited Artists’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
‘Small Is Beautiful XXXI, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow & Blue’, Flowers, London.
2012
‘Sketchbooks’, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
‘Fine Art Auction’, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London.
‘Stones in Your Pocket’, Cardiff Sessions, Michael Iveson, Ian Wilkins, Christina Wrege and associated artist’s: David Ferry, John Gibbons, Bruce McLean, Francis Smith, Ashley Smith, Andreas Vietz and Jutta Vollmer, Booklyn Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
2011
‘3 +’, John Gibbons | Larry Poons, Peter Randall-Page | Alan Davie, Michael Warren | Robert Motherwell, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
‘On The Floor’, John Gibbons & Nathaniel Rackowe, Gooden Gallery, London.
2010
Invited Artist, ‘RHA 180th. Annual Exhibition’, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
‘Summer Exhibition’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
Courthouse Gallery, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland
‘Christmas Exhibition 2010’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
2009
‘Mapping Form Drawing & Sculpture’, Marie Foley. John Gibbons. Eilis O’Connell. Michael Quane, Macroom Town Hall Gallery, Macroom, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Invited Artist, ‘RHA 179th. Annual Exhibition’, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
‘The Sculpture Show’, V22 Presents, The Almond Building, Drummond Rd. London SE16 4DG.
‘Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2009’, London.
‘International 20th. Century & Contemporary’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin.
‘New Works By Gallery Artists II’, Flowers Central, London.
2008
‘Discussions in Contemporary Sculpture’, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon. Co. Leitrim, Ireland.
‘The 240th. Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2008’, London.
‘Gallery & Invited Artists’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin.
‘Small Is Beautiful’, Flowers, NY, NY, USA.
‘Small Is Beautiful XXVI, Love’, Flowers East, London
2007
‘Light’, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester
‘Rummage – Sculptors’ Drawing’, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester
‘Sculpture in the Close 2007’, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
New Art Centre, Roche Court, East Winterslow, Salisbury.
‘Sculpture at Goodwood’, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, Chichester
‘Summer Exhibition 2007’, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
‘Small Is Beautiful’, Flowers, NY, NY, USA.
‘Small Is Beautiful’, Flowers Central, London.
‘New Works By Gallery Artists’, Flowers Central, London.
2006
‘Summer Exhibition 2006’, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
‘New Work By Gallery Sculptors’, Flowers Central, London.
2005
‘Sculpture in the Close 2005’, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
‘Made in UK’, Canem Galeria, Castello de la Plana, Spain.
‘Tom Bendham: Collector’, Contemporary Art Society Touring Exhibition, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Bristol, Museum and Art Gallery, Gallery Oldham, Huddersfield Art Gallery, York City Art Gallery, Cheltenh Art Gallery & Museum and James Hockey Gallery, Farnham.
‘Summer Exhibition 2005’, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
‘Angela Flowers Gallery 35th Anniversary Exhibition 2005’, Flowers East, London.
‘Small Is Beautiful: Part XXIII’, Flowers Central, London.
Flowers Central, London.
Sculpture at Goodwood, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, Chichester.
2004
‘Tom Bendham: Collector’, Contemporary Art Society Touring Exhibition, Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, London.
‘Small Is Beautiful: Part XXII’, Flowers Central, London.
2003
‘The Body Disembodied: New Direction in Modernist Sculpture’, Mac Laren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
‘The Post-Industrial Landscape’, The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic.
‘New British Art 1,’ Flowers, NY ,NY, USA.
‘Small is Beautiful: Part XXI, War and Peace,’ Flowers Central, London
‘5th Anniversary Exhibition’, Flowers West, Santa Monica, California, USA.
‘New British Art, 1’, Flowers, NY, NY, USA.
2002
‘Thinking Big: Concepts for 21st Century British Sculpture’, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
‘New Additions’, National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick, Ireland
‘Sculpture’, Robert Steele Gallery, NY, NY, USA.
‘20-20’, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
‘Small is Beautiful: Part XX, Voyage,’ Flowers East, London.
‘East Two’, Flowers East, London.
2001
‘STEELWORKS’, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbia, India.
‘Small Is Beautiful: Part XIX, Still Life’, Flowers East, London.
2000
‘Sculpture and the Divine’, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester.
‘0044’, Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast,
‘0044’, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
‘Millennium Art & Christianity Exhibition’, The West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland.
‘Sculpture, an Abbey and a Cathedral’, Malmesbury Abbey and Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester.
‘Flowers 2’, Flowers Central, London.
‘Artist’s Choice’, Flowers East, London.
‘Small Is Beautiful: Part XVIII, Self Portrait’, Flowers East, London.
‘Angela Flowers Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition’, Flowers East, London Fields, London.
Flowers West Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.
1999
‘0044’, PS 1, Contemporary Art Center, MOMA, NY, NY
‘0044’, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
Sculpture at Goodwood, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, Chichester, West Sussex.
‘Small Is Beautiful: Part XVII’, Millennium, Flowers East at London Fields, London.
‘Rosemary Burton, John Gibbons, Tighe O' Connor, Billy Quinn’, The Irish Club, London.
1998
‘25 Years of Arts Week’, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland.
‘Geoffrey Hollow Benefit Exhibition’, Beardsmore Gallery, London.
‘Angela Flowers Gallery at Riverside Studios’, Riverside Studios, London.
‘Small Is Beautiful: Part XVI, Music’, Flowers East, London.
1997
‘Fis’ Artists and Architects Collaboration,: Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland.
‘Angela Flowers Gallery 1997’, Flowers East at London Fields, London.
1996
‘Unfamiliar Familiarity’. Winchester Contemporary Art, Winchester
‘Fis’, Artists and Architects Collaboration, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
1995
‘Irish Steel’, Model Arts Centre, Sligo; Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork; Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland.
‘Hiroshima: From Me to You’, Fukuya Art Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan.
‘Drawing’, The Angelus Gallery, Winchester.
‘British Abstract Art, Part 2, Sculpture’, Flowers East, London.
‘Aura’, The Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
‘Angela Flowers Gallery’ 25 years’, Flowers East, London.
1994
‘Lead and Follow The Continuity of Abstraction’, Bede Gallery, Jarrow & Atlantis Gallery, London.
‘Influx’, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth.
‘Absolute Secret’, Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, London.
‘Small Is Beautiful: Part XIII, Night & Day', Flowers East, London.
‘Boxed’, Gallery M., London.
1993
‘Moving into View’, Art Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall, London.
‘The Critics Choice’, New British Art, Christies, London.
‘Small Is Beautiful: Part XI, Homages’, Flowers East, London.
1992
‘Artists Choice', Flowers East, London.
1991
‘The Discerning Eye’, Mall Galleries, London; Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead.
‘The Downeen Collection’, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, Ireland.
1990
‘Now for the Future’, Hayward Gallery, London.
‘Small Is Beautiful: Part VIII, The Figure’, Flowers East, London.
1989
‘Sculpture at Canterbury 89’, The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, Kent.
1988/89
‘Changing Minds', Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; DLI Museum and Art Centre, Durham.
1988
‘Sculpture at Canterbury '88’, The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, Kent
‘Ray Finnis Charitable Trust’: An Exhibition of Paintings, Prints and Drawings, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London.
‘Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture’, Fuse Gallery, London.
1987
‘Painting and Sculpture’, 27 Trelawney Road, Bristol.
‘Irish Exhibition of Living Art’, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland.
Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London.
1986
‘Sulpture by Invitation’, Law Courts Courtyard, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Ireland.
‘Hardingham Sculpture Workshop’, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich.
‘Open Air Sculpture Show’, Lincoln, Hull & Scunthorpe.
1985
‘Studio Visits 1985’. An Invitation’, Victoria Munroe Gallery, NY, NY, USA.
‘C.A.N. '85’, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
‘Beyond Appearances’, Arts Council Touring Exhibition: Nottingham Castle Museum, Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Caernarvon Museum Mold, Oriel Theatre Clwyd, Barnsley, Cooper Gallery.
‘Cornish & Contemporary’, Worcester Museum and Art Gallery, Worcester.
1984
Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
‘Monument', Bassin Art Centre, Maastricht; Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
‘Sculpture on the Map’, Canterbury Festival, Canterbury Cathedral, Kent.
1983
‘Archie Rand, John Gibbons, Ronnie Landfield, Cora Kelly Ward’, Clayworks Gallery, New York, USA.
‘Why Sculpture - Part 1’, West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham, Surrey.
1982
Hunterian Art Gallery, The University, Glasgow.
‘Sculpture at the Park', Park Gallery, Cheltenham.
‘Sculpture at Canterbury Cathedral’, Canterbury, Kent.
1981
‘Contemporary Camden’, Kenwood, London.
1980
‘The Material Object’, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Boston, Mass., USA
Utica College, Utica, New York, USA.
‘Sculpture’, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London.
A.I.R. Gallery, London.
‘Sculpture and Painting at Canterbury’, St. Augustine’s Gardens, Canterbury, Kent
1979
‘Recent Arts Council Awards and Purchases’, Serpentine Gallery, London.
‘Style in the Seventies’, Artscribe Touring Exhibition, Arnolfini, Bristol; Hobson Gallery, Cambridge; Roundhouse, London; Midland Gallery, Nottingham
‘The First Exhibition’, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London.
‘Clay Sculpture Project’, Battersea Arts Centre, London.
Ian Birksted Gallery, Brussels.
Ian Birksted Gallery, London
‘Sculpture & Painting’, Canterbury School of Art, Canterbury, Kent.
1978
‘Spring Show I’, Serpentine Gallery, London.
‘New Sculpture, Three Shows’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
1977
‘St Martin's Sculpture’, South Bank, London.
‘Painter', Sculptors', Drawings’, Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London.
1976
‘Sculpture in Two Landscapes’, Kenwood & Hillingdon, London.
1975
‘Sculpture '75’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
‘New Contemporaries’, Camden Arts Centre, London.
‘Space Open Studios’, Space Studios, Stepney Green, London.
1974
‘New Contemporaries’, Camden Arts Centre, London.
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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