"Artist Statement"

I found this old statement whilst looking for a 'proper' one.... sometimes I come across things I've written years ago and can't believe I wrote them; like the last page of my dissertation where I call Damien Hirst an 'arse hole' and mention something about feeling violated if ever was to read a book about him ( I've just checked the bookshelf and I now own five)

SOPHIE GIBSON

The usual justification given to back my work up is that it revolves around modern society and throwaway culture (which it does). Also focusing on corporate selling culture. When I work in collage majority of my images are reused from unwanted publications, i.e.- dumped magazines and newspapers etc. It feels like such a waste that all these amazing images get publish and then thrown.

So that is where my original pulse for working in collage came from after always being a painter.

With working in the medium that I do it’s hard to come up with a pre-conceived idea from relaying on found images. Id say it’s almost like a ‘happening’- epithany (in the most un arsehole way possible) it just happens. I start to look at what I have to work with and some unconscious meaningful concept appears. 

At the end of it all I just want the viewers to enjoy it.  

Cache; Hidden Treasures, Pendle Gallery

This is some unseen and rarely exhibited work of mine in the current exhibition recently opened at the Pendle Gallery at The ACE Centre, in Nelson. 

Photography Exhibition 2013

This is an exhibition coming up next year with a good selection of my work

7th of February - 9th of March 2013 

great painting

stairway to the cafe & toilets....

working progress

120 film

if i don't say so myself, 

i love this one

120 film

some stickers i happened to spot and like in amsterdam

Amsterdam October 2012

25/10/2012

Burnley

Hawaii Effort

Hawaii Effort

Collage

October 2012

A Modern WashOut

A Modern WashOut

Collage

October 2012 

What You See Is What You Get, Collage. Prints for sale

What You See Is What You Get, Collage 2010

Prints for sale

signed prints, only 3 made

email: sophiegibson@live.com

Carla, Collage 2012. Prints for sale

Carla, Collage

Prints for sale

Signed prints, only 3 made

email: sophiegibson@live.com

Nelson Vintage Arts Market

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Toilets

Wedding Day 29/09/2012

Nauzhat 

london