LINDA GIBBS PROM PAINTINGS
Prom Paintings – Gecko Studio Gallery
Fish Creek artist Linda Gibbs has spent the past 10 years surveying the ever changing patterns and colours of Wilsons Promontory. This exhibition reveals large scale, pared back oil paintings reflecting the essence of The Prom.
Linda won the Best Gippsland Prize at the prestigious John Leslie Art Prize at the Gippsland Gallery last year. She is part of the gallery’s collection and as curator Simon Gregg describes – “She paints with the soul of a poet and the eyes of a realist, to produce paintings that are recognisably Gippsland, while feeling distant and ethereal.”
Artist statement…
“My practice begins with traditional en plein air (field) painting. Immersed in the elements, my palette races to keep pace with wild weather, subtle colour shifts and ever changing atmospheres. The studies capture the spirit of the place and facilitate an intense knowledge of the environment, from miniscule mosses to majestic mountains. I am currently surveying Wilsons Promontory where nature’s harmonious palette does most of the work for me. I find unexpected relationships of pinks, violets, olives, greys and golds in a vast panorama of complex abstraction. The field studies inform large scale, pared back oil paintings produced back in the studio.”
Linda Gibbs
CURRICULUM VITAE
LINDA GIBBS
Mobile: 0412 953 436
Education
1990 – 1992 National Art School, Sydney – Painting Major
Further Studies
2013 – Moriati Colour Theory
2006 – Medieval Tempera Painting, Melbourne University
Relevant Employment History
1993 – 2017 Painting Tutor – Linden New Art and Gasworks
2006 – 2015 Director, Corporate Art Events
1999 – 2002 Gallery Director – Metropolis Gallery, St Kilda
1996 – 2004 Visual Art Events Producer – St Kilda Festival
1991 – 1993 Painting Tutor – Eastern Suburbs Regional College (Sydney)
1987 – 1990 Photographer’s Assistant – Richard Millott and Associates
Recent Exhibitions
2016 – John Leslie Art Prize – Gippsland Art Gallery (Winner, Best Gippsland Prize)
2016 – Blake Prize – Finalist, Director’s Cut
2016 – Linda Gibbs Paintings – Brightspace
2015 – Shakespeare Grove Artists Exhibition – St Kilda Town Hall
2015 – Linda Gibbs – Wilsons Promontory Paintings – St Kilda Town Hall
2014 – John Leslie Art Prize – Gippsland Art Gallery (Finalist)
2014 – Melbourne Now – Satellite Open Studio
2013 – Linda Gibbs – Lullaby Landscapes – Gippsland Art Gallery
2013 – Slumber – Brightspace
2012 – From Realism to Nihilism – St Kilda Town Hall
2011 – Illuminate – Brightspace
2011 – Hidden Pleasures – Gippsland Art Gallery
2011 – South Gippslandscapes – Fish Creek Gallery
2010 – John Leslie Art Prize. Gippsland Art Gallery (Finalist)
2010 – Recent Landscapes, Axia Modern Art
2009 – Linking – St Kilda Town Hall
2009 – St Kilda Botanical Gardens en plein air
2008 – Wonderment – Gasworks Arts Park
2008 – In the Garden – St Kilda Town Hall
2008 – Postcard Show – Linden Centre for Contemporary Art
2007 Neighbourhood Watching – Brightspace
2007 – Animal Show – Artsofar
2007 – Summer Salon – Brightspace
2006 – Bowled Out – Gallery M
2006 – Summer Salon – Brightspace
2006 – Bowling Club Exhibition – Brightspace
2005 – In the Shadows – Gasworks
2002 – Linda Gibbs – Paintings – Metropolis Gallery, St Kilda
1990 – 2002 – Various Group Exhibitions, Sydney and Melbourne
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