Biography
John Gibbons (b. Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland 1949) studied at Limerick School of Art (1969-70); Crawford Municipal School of Art, Cork, Ireland (1970-72) and St Martin's School of Art, London (1972-76). 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); The Lorne Award (1992); Intach Trust and AHRB Awards (2001) and an Arts Council England Award (2005).
Gibbons was a visiting artist at Sculpture Space, Utica, New York (1980); Clayworks Studio Workshop and Syracuse University, both New York (1983); School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1984); and Emma Lake Artists’ Workshop, Saskatchewan, Canada (1991). He was elected professor in 1995 and a fellow of the Royal British Socuety of Sculptors in 2003.
He has participated in many group shows and has held solo exhibitions including International Arts Centre (1975); Serpentine Gallery (1986); Madeline Carter Fine Art in Boston, America (1988); Angela Flowers/Flowers East (1992) and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (1997).
In 2005, Flowers East featured Gibbons’ work over the previous five years in one of its Sculpture in the Workplace shows at One Canada Square, Canary Wharf. Arts Council; Tate; The Potteries Musuem, Stoke on Trent; Gulbenkian Foundation and several foreign public collections hold examples of his abstract steel sculpture.
