Resume

2024 

July 2024 - Reality Check, Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show, curated by David McAlmont ,Dora House, Kensington, London U.K.

2023

October 2023 - Residency - Vanha Paukku cultural centre, Lapua, Finland. 

July 2023 - Fibre and Stone, Le Museum de Pierre, Villhonour, Charante, France

May 2023 - Le Reumage, Installation at Domain Champagne Gosset, Epernay, France. Organised by Vign Art, France 2023

March 2023 - Still Here. APT Gallery, Deptford, London UK

January 2023 - Marin TV, San Francisco. Undulations Video works selected by Ephemereye.

2022

Nov 2022 - Henry Moore Foundation Research Grant Award, undertaken at University of Manitoba, Architecture dept, CAST, John Russell Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Sept 2022 - Contextile Biennale - 2022, Guimaraes, Portugal

2021

Oct 2021 - WASH -Yorkshire Art Space Exchange Place, Sheffield.

July 2021 - Marin TV - SAN Francisco. Screening Untold Pleasures curated by Ephemereye.

July 2021 - Let’s Go Cray Cray, Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show, curated by Sigrid Kirk. Dora House, Kensington, London U.K.

March 2021 - Featured Artist, Plague of Locusts. On line video platform  -https://www.ephemereye.com/

March 2021 - The Sculpture Podcast: Morley College  - Discussion as part of Women's History Month 

https://www.morleyradio.co.uk/programmes/the-sculpture-podcast-ep4/

2020

December 2020 - This Stuff Matters - on-line virtual exhibition 'What's That?' (featured in The London Group Newsletter) : read here

August 2020 - Cheeseburn Sculpture Park, Stamfordham, Northumberland 

July 2020 - Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show, curated by Nicky and Robert Wilson -Dora House, London UK

March 2020 - Ephemereye - Moving Image in Focus on-line Curated by Veronica Shimanovskaya

March 2020 - Camaradas Exhibition, Mexican Embassy, Menier Gallery, London, UK 

January 2020 - Opening Matters, Unit 3 Project Space, East London E3 ELT

2019

November 2019 - London Group Show, Cello Factory, Bermondsey, London. Curated by Bill Watson

November 2019 - Amsterdam - Bermondsey, London, SE1 4QG UK - Curated by Vanya Balogh 

October 2019 - Synergic, Old Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey, London SE16 UK

May 2019 - 'Portrait of an Egg’ Somerset House - 16th -19th May 2019 - Curated by Gavin Turk 

May 2019 - Minuscule Venice - Fondamenta San't Anne, Venice - Curated by Vanya Balogh

May 2019 - Test 123, Unit 3, East London - Curated by John Bunker

April 2019 - Cotswold's Sculpture Park Cotswold's UK

March 2019 - Minuscule - Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, UK

February 2019 - Seventh Chinese Open, Q Parks, Leicester Square, London UK Curated by Rebecca Fiener

January 2019 - Solo Show, Cullercoats Studios, UK

2018

October - December 2018 - Cullercoats Group Show, ArtBound, West Yorkshire, Shipley. 

October - Protocol - Frieze Art Fair, Cavendish Square, London, UK 

June - September 2018 - Cheeseburn Sculpture Park, Stamfordham, Northumberland 

February 2018 - Embracing the Underdog - Q Park, Soho, London, UK

2017

October 2017 - The Crash 2017 - Q Park, Cavendish Square, London, UK

August 2017- Summer Salon 2017 - Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes Gallery, Hackney, London UK

August 2017- ArtHouses 'Fringe' - Cullercoats Studio Gallery, Newcastle UK

August 2017- Stimulus - Menier Galley, London, UK 

July 2017 - Small World- PS. Mirabel, Manchester, UK 

July 2017 - Threads - Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

May 2017 - Outskirts, 901 Avenue C, Suite 101, Denton, Texas 76201

March 2017 - Threads - Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green Road, London E2

2016

August 2016 - Art Houses Fringe - Cullercoats Studio Gallery, Newcastle UK 

August 2016 - 'Bizarre is Always Beautiful' Cupola Gallery, 178 Middlewood Road, Hillsbrough, Sheffield S6 1TD

May 2016 - LUBOMIROV/ANGUS-HUGHES Gallery - Sixty - Curated by Anna Bleeker and Alessandra Falbo 

February 2016 - Made To Measure, Lotte Inch Gallery, Bootham, York

2015

October 2015 - Sculpture In The Vineyard - Wollombi Village, Lower Hunter Valley NSW, Australia

October 2015 - IAM Collective: The Brunswick, 82 North Street, Leeds LS2

October 2015 - UTOPIA - Art Licks, Clapham Orangery, London UK

August 2015 - Arthouses: Cullercoats Group Show 2015 - Newcastle

June 2015 - Fit The Slit - Alberoni Beach Venice Biennale, Italy

May 2015 - Lines of Communication - Prism @Hoxton Arches

March 2015 - Residency - Articulate Project Space - Sydney, Australia - 2nd- 23rd March 2015 

March 2015 - 'Taking Up Space' - Future Feminist Archive - New South Wales, Australia. (in conjunction with CFA) Articulate, 497 Parramatta Road, Sydney NSW.

Jan 2015 - Go Figure: Gallery 2, Altringham, Cheshire

Jan 2015 - Land Changes Project. San Diego, California USA

2014

Dec 2014 - Additions: Butetown History and Arts Centre, Cardiff

Nov 2014 - Stitched Time Exhibition. Limbo, Substation Project Space, Margate, Kent, CT9 1EE

Featured Zine Artists:  Helen Frank, Ruth Geldard, Jill Gibson, Sue Gough, Kate Murdoch, Clare Smith 

Nov 2014 - Bad Behaviour: Brixton East Gallery, London.

Oct 2014 - #ROTH, Grosvenor House, Park Lane, Mayfair, London

Sept 2014 - Dirty Pretty Things: Group Exhibition, Cullercoats Studio Gallery Space, Tyne & Wear UK

2013

Oct 2013 - Group Exhibition, Gallery North Project Space, Newcastle UK

Oct 2013 - Cullercoats Studios Group Exhibition, Newcastle UK

Works selected for the 2013 Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries. UK

July 2013 - <3 - Priestman Gallery, Sunderland

2012

July 2012 - North East Student Art Prize. Departure Foundation, Tower House, Sunderland

2011

Dec 2011 - Saltburn Artist Project 'Off The Shelf' Group Exhibition

Sept 2011 - SMART Gallery, Group Exhibition, Fabric of the Land, Aberdeen

CURATION

January 2020 - This Stuff Matters, Unit 3, London E3                                                                                         ArtHouses - August 2015 - 2017 - Cullercoats Studios, Tyne & Wear

June 2015: Horses - Bob Lawson - Solo Arts, Holmside, Sunderland UK

Sept 2014: Dirty Pretty Things. Group Exhibition. Cullercoats Studios, Tyne and Wear UK

TALKS

October 2017 Artist Talk - Joya AiR, Velez R. Andalusia Spain https://joya-air.org/joyablog/2017/11/8/joya-artists-talks-jill-gibson 

April 2015 - The Caravan Gallery's Creative Communion - Pride of Place Project Hub, Sunderland UK

March 2015 - Articulate Project Space - Sydney, Australia

MEMBERSHIPS

Member of Royal Society of Sculptors: https://sculptors.org.uk/                                     

RESIDENCIES

November 2019 - Scottish Sculpture workshop - Large Hand Building

November 2017 - Joya Artist Residency, Anadalucia, Spain

March 2015 - Articulate Project Space, Sydney, Australia

April 2014 - Scottish Sculpture Workshop - Bronze Casting

AWARDS & PRIZES

Nov 2022 - Henry Moore Foundation Research Grant

June 1985 - Winner of Scottish Leatherwear Award

PUBLICATIONS

Venice 2019 - Altering Perspectives, paper by Dr Veronica Shimanovskaya. Link here

Ephemereye - On-line zine:  

https://www.ephemereye.com/single-post/2019/05/21/Venice-2019-Altering-Perspective 

Stiched Time Zine 2014 - Published by Clare Smith - Funded by Arts Council England

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Mr K.J.C Duffy, UK

Dr A Bingham, Chicago, Illinois USA

Dr Margaret Higginson, London, Uk

Mrs Diane Edmunds, London

EDUCATION

University of Sunderland - 2013 - MA Fine Art - Distinction

University of Sunderland - 2006 - PGCE

Bristol Business School - 1988 - 1989 - Postgraduate Marketing Management

Glasgow School of Art = 1985 - BA Hons (1st)- Textiles

Sheffield Hallam University - 1980 - Foundation Art

Experienced teacher/lecturer 

LINKS

https://www.cullercoatsstudios.co.uk

https://sculptors.org.uk/