Art Exhibition at the Drawing Room, Summer 2008

1055 Sauchiehall Street, G2 7UB (Kelvingrove)
www.drawingroombar.co.uk

Telephone: 0141 339 2999 - Email: [email protected]

Artist's Biography

Trish Gibson BA (Hons) Fine Art, graduated in Fine Art Photography at The Glasgow School of Art in 2007. She works within the mediums of photography, video and installation.

Nurture / nature follows on recent critical acclaim in The D.I.Y. Show, April 2008, a group show featuring work by artists Richard Demarco, Joseph Beuys, U We Claus (52nd Venice Biennale), Colin Tennant, Luke Fowler (Derek Jarman Award 2008), Michelle Letowska and others, for which she produced three installation pieces titled 12 Wooden Boxes, 12 Wooden Trees and 12 Stones, Once a wooden tree and Easter Dice Game for 2-4 Players with Music.

Nurture / nature is her first solo show since From Necropolis to Metropolis exhibited at the Glasgow Film Theatre in 1999. Further group shows include Wanderlust, Leipzig, Germany 2005 and Wish You Were Here, Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr 2006.

Since graduating in 2007 she has sold work to London based Fine Art Consultant Tanya Gertik and produced commissioned work for Universities Scotland. Work is held in private collections.

Trish Gibson lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.

Artist Statement

The decorative quality of flowers and plant life that flourish within the environment of the suburban garden may instantly attract and seduce us, but at close inspection the cultivated chaos exposes both its fragility and strength and the beauty of nature. Here we find a place of contradiction where opposites collide - domestic and wild, renewal and decay, order and chaos, life and death.

For nurture/nature using fine art photography, I explore the idea of the garden and by extension nature's landscape - revealing our relationship to nature through the environment of our gardens and all that that evokes. The ethereal quality of what we find in our relationship with the garden, the visceral pleasures that await us there, awakening all of our senses, exposes us to a surreal world of lush colour, growth, disorder and challenge.

Visually, I seek to find stillness, astonishment and beauty within the landscape of the garden and our subconscious desire 'to connect', which reflects the romanticism we embrace bringing the outside 'inside', revealing concurrently our distancing but longing for the natural world.

With such romantic notions, do we address the very real conflict of today's world between environmental protection and economic development or do we only see a pretty picture?

Trish Gibson

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