John Gibbons

Books & Catalogues

2021


The  Art of Place

People and landscape of County Clare

Editors: Peadar King & Anne Jones

Photography: John Kelly

The Liffey Press

PP 294 (J.G. 82 - 91)

ISBN 978-1-8383593-9-3



Midnight in the Kant Hotel

Rod Mengham

Little Island Press/Carcanet

PP 301 (J.G. 121-132)

ISBN: 978 1 80017 147 3



2019


Anthony Caro, Stainless Steel

Karen Wilkin

Lund Humphries

PP 103 (J.G. VII, pp 71-73)

ISBN; 978-1-84822-348-6



2018


Finding Nemon

Aurelia Young with Julian Hale

Peter Owen Publishers

PP 224 (J.G. pp. 86)

ISBN 978-0-7206-2037-5


Grimspound and Inhabiting Art

Rod Mengham

Carcanet, 2018

PP 256 (J.G. PP 136 - 137)

ISBN 978 1 78410 590 7


Tucker

Kosme de Baranano

Laboratorio para el arte, Estudios Durero

PP 221 (J.G. pp 32)

ISBN: 978-84-09-01011-0

D.L.: B1-649-2018



2016


Artist Boss

Editor: Jenny Dunseath & Mark Wilsher

Wunderkammer Press

PP 191 (J.G. PP 47 - 58)

ISBN: 978-099355511-0-9 (paperback)



2014


Art and Architecture of Ireland

(in five volumes)

General Editor: Andrew Carpenter

Volume III

Sculpture 1600 - 2000

Editor: Paula Murphy

PP 584 (J.G. 137 - 139, images reproduced: ‘The Dream’, 1977-78 & ‘The Beginning’, 1995, Text: ‘John Gibbons’ by Jon Wood. 500 - 501, image reproduced: ‘Jane/E/and Still’, 2008-9 & ‘Gráinne/Saying Hello’, 2008-09. Text: ‘Portrait Sculpture’ by Paula Murphy).

Published for the Royal Irish Academy and The Paul Mellon Centre by Yale University Press, Dublin, New Haven, London.

ISBN: 978-0-300-17921-7 (V.3)


Caro by Anthony Caro

Project Editor: Rosie Pickles

PP 461 (J.G. 285)

Phaidon Press Ltd, 2014

ISBN 978 0 7148 6735 9


The Understory

Rod Mengham

Corrupt Press, 2014, ,

(J.G. PP 9, Front & Back covers)

ISBN: 979-10-90394-47-6

http://www.corruptpress.net



2012


Five Portraits for John Gibbons

Rod Mengham

Bell Book, Wide Range Chapbooks, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. Series Editor: John Kinsella.



2011


Sculpture at Canary Wharf: A Decade of Exhibitions

Theresa Bergne, Ann Elliott & Sally Williams

PP 248, (J.G. 86-87, 104, 245), 'Transference', 2001-2, 'As One', 2001-2, 'Rhythm/Play', 1999-2000, 'Being There', 1999-2000, 'Dawn's Domain', 2001-2, 'For All To See', 2004, reproduced. Text; 'North, South, East and West, John Gibbons: New Work', Ann Elliott.

Published by Canary Wharf Group, 2011

ISBN 978-0-9563648-1-4



2010


Dictionary of Living Irish Artists

Robert O’ Byrne

Editor: Alma Carey-Zuniga

PP 400, (J.G. 136-137), ‘First Moment’, 2006 - 07, reproduced.

Published by Plurabelle Publishing Ltd, Dublin, 2010

ISBN: 978-0-9563011-0-9


Review 2009/2010 National Portrait Gallery

Project managed by Denise Ellitson

PP 36, (J.G. 14), ‘Your Story/White Blackbird’, 2008 – 09 reproduced.

Published by National Portrait Gallery, London, 2010

ISBN: 978 1 85514 437 8



2008


Dictionnaire International de la Sculpture Moderne & Contemporaine

Alain Monvoisin, Editor

Pp 563, (J.G. 207), ‘The Awaiting’, 1991-92, reproduced. Collection, Tate.

Published by Editions du Regard, Paris, 2008.

ISBN: 978-2-84105-211-0



2006


Art In State Buildings, 1995 – 2005

Penny Harris, Editor

PP. 192 (J.G. 153)

Patrick J. Murphy, Research director

Text: Art in State Buildings 1995 – 2005, Dr. Yvonne Scott, pp. vii – xiv

Text: Art in Public Spaces 1995 – 2005, An inside perspective, Patrick J. Murphy

Text: Commissioning under the Per Cent for Art Scheme – The OPW Experience, Angela Rolfe

Published by the Stationery Office, 2006

ISBN: 0-7557-7401-9


‘Artists in Britain Since 1945’

Volume 1

A to L

David Buckman

Art Dictionaries 2006

PP 1882 (J.G. 583)

ISBN 10: 0 9532260 95 X

ISBN 13: 9780953260959


2005


Modern British Sculpture

Guy Portelli, Editor.

pp 320, (J.G. 198 – 200, 7 Images reproduced, 195-200; text, 'From Form To Metaphor: John Gibbons' Sculpture' by Paul Moorhouse, first published in 'John Gibbons, Form & Content', Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, 1996, ISBN 0 907074 62 6)

Published in the USA by Schiffer Publications Ltd.

ISBN: 0-7643-2111-0



2002


A Vision for Twenty-First Century British Sculpture

pp, 408, (J.G. 136-139, 3 images reproduced).

Ann Elliot, Text, 354, 355.

Sculpture at Goodwood.

ISBN 0-9537794-2-4


British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century

Alan Windsor, Editor,

pp 76,

Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

ISBN 1 85928 4566



2000


'Tate Facts'

Simon Wilson, Editor.

pp 13.

Tate Gallery Publishing LTD.

ISBN 1 85437 348X, (Set of two books)



1999


'Artists'

Gautier Deblonde, Photographs, pp 30.

Mel Gooding, Text, pp 7-14.

Tate Publishing.

ISBN 1 85437 291 2.



1998


'The Dictionary of Artist in Britain since 1945'

David Buckman, Editor

pp, 45

Art Dictionaries Ltd,.

ISBN 0 953260 9 09



1996


'Who's Who in Art'

pp, 187

ISBN 0900083166



1995


'ARTODAY'

Edward Lucie-Smith, Editor.

New British Sculpture, pp 288-291.

Phaidon.

ISBN 0 7148 3888 8



1988


'The Arts Council Collection, Acquisition 1984-88'

Arts Council of Great Britain,

The South Bank Centre.

pp 32.

ISBN 1 85332 049 8



1982


'Contemporary Irish Art'

Roderic Knowles; Editor,

pp 142

Wolfhound Press.

ISBN 0-86327-001-8.



1979


'Arts Council Collection'

Illustrated purchases for the Arts Council of Great Britain,

collected between 1942 – 1978, pp104,

Isobel Johnstone, Curator,

Arts Council of Great Britain.

ISBN 0 7287 0212 6

2001


The Invisibility of Irish Migrants in British Health Research

Patrick J. Bracken & Patrick O'Sullivan Irish Studies Review, Vol 9, No 1, 2001 ISSN, 0967-0882 print/1469-9303 online/01/010041-11 © 2001 Taylor and Francis Ltd. Vol.10.1080/09670880020032681, pp.43&45, 2 images reproduced.

2023


Boyle Arts Festival

20.07.2023 - 07.08.2023

Main Exhibition 2023

King House

Boyle,

Co. Roscommon

Ireland



2022


‘Sculptors’Drawing Exhibition’

10.11.2022 - 07.07.2023

Catalogue Text:  Rod Mengham

Latymer Upper School

London.


2021


Sculpture At Westport Quay, 2021

Catalogue text: Catherine Marshall & Noelle Angley.

Published by: Customhouse Studios + gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland.


2019


Surface & Light: John Gibbons and Larry Poons

Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin

Catalogue text: Karen Wilkin, IRISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS: JOHN GIBBONS AND LARRY POONS.

Published by Hillsboro Fine Art, 2019

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'The Winter Garden'

Anne Hardy curates the Arts Council Collection

Towner Art Gallery

Eastbourne

Published by the Towner Art Gallery, 2019


‘Clyde Hopkins and Friends’

Linden Hall Studio, Deal, Kent.

Publishes by: Linden Hall Studio, 2019.



2018


‘Thirty Years of Contemporary Art

Jesus College

Cambridge

1988 - 2018’

PP 78, (J.G. 7,9,12,45,50 & 78) Text: Ian White & Colin Renfrew

Published in 2018 by Jesus College, Cambridge

ISBN 978-1-5272-3053-8 


‘The Secret Life of Stuff’

Arthouse1, London. Curated by Catherine Ferguson & Della Godden

Text: Catherine Ferguson & Della Gooden

Publishes in 2018 by Arthouse1, London



2017


'John Gibbons: The Messengers'

PP 48. Text: Rod Mengham, 'Maintaining Transmission: the work of John Gibbons'. John Daly, 'John Gibbons: Radiators for the soul'.

Published in 2017 by Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland

ISBN: 978-1-909725-04-1



2016


‘Two Birds/One Stone’

Curated by Janet Mullarney, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin,

Published in 2016 by the Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland

Limited edition of 500.


‘Royal Ulster Academy of Arts 2016’

135th. Annual Exhibition

Ulster Museum

PP 176 (J.G. 48 & 153)

ISBN 978-1-909751-60-6

Royal Ulster Academy of Arts


‘From Edge To Edge, 1916-2016’

100 years of Art from County Clare

Curated by Catherine Marshall

PP 9 (J.G. 1, 2 & 5)

Glor, Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland. 



2015


'Making It: Sculpture in Britain, 1977 - 1986'

Curated by Natalie Rudd and Jon Wood

Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park: 1April - 21 June 2015

Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, 8 October - 29 November 2015

Edinburgh Art Centre, 7 May - 3 July 2016

Published in 2015 by Hayward Publishing,

Southbank Centre, London.

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

PP 144 ( J.G. PP, 10,15,72,73,135)

ISBN 978 1 85332 329 4


‘Sale Of Work’

Berloni Gallery, London.


‘1974 - 2014, PRESENT CONTINU:

QUARANTA ANYS

DE LA

GALERIA CANEM

A CASTELLO’ 

Sala san Miguel

Fundacion Caja Castellon

Centro del Carmen

Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana   ISBN: 978-84-15301-59-2  



2014                            


‘Artist of the Day, since 1983’

Flowers Gallery

ISBN: 978-1-906412-65-4


‘Boyle Arts Festival 2014’

Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland. 



2011


'Three +'

John Gibbons / Larry Poons 

Peter Randall-Page / Alan Davie

Michael Warren / Robert Motherwell

Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin

Text; John Daly: Three + , PP 3-12.

ISBN: 978-0-9564950-5-1



2010


‘John Gibbons Light/Listen Selected Sculpture 1991-2010'

Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin

Text; Paul Moorhouse: ‘Listen with your eyes – The sculpture of John Gibbons’, Rod Mengham: ‘In Conversation … The Artist in conversation with Rod Mengham’, ‘Thoughts’: John Gibbons.

ISBN: 978-0-9564950-0-6


Royal Hibernian Academy One Hundred and Eightieth Annual Exhibition

Gallagher Gallery, Dublin

PP 96, (J.G., 70)

ISBN: 1-903875-54-4



2009


‘John Gibbons Portraits’

National Portrait Gallery, London

Limited Edition Set of 5 Postcards

Text; Paul Moorhouse


‘John Gibbons The Mayo Drawings’

Jesus College, Cambridge

Text, Rod Mengham: ‘Feeling For Tremors: The Drawings Of John Gibbons’.


'Mapping Form Drawing & Sculpture'

Macroom Town Hall Gallery, Macroom, Ireland

Text, 'LIKE A HINGE

John Gibbons interviewed by Rod Mengham'

ISBN 978-0-9556528-1-3 0-9556528-1-2


Royal Hibernian Academy One Hundred and Seventy Ninth Annual Exhibition

Gallagher Gallery, Dublin

Pp 112, (J.G., 79)

ISBN: 1-903875-50-1



2008


‘The Napoleon Garden Holland Park Ten Years of Contemporary Sculpture’

Pp.27 (J.G.;16,17)

Catalogue text; Anna Stamatiou

http://www.rbkc.gov.uk



2007


'Light'

Winchester Cathedral, Winchester

ISBN: 978-0-90,3346-37-5

Curated by, John Gibbons


'Light': A total Installation


Rod Mengham


The setting for this exhibition is infused not only with the exact ratio of light and shade predominant on any given day, but with more than nine hundred years of thinking about the meaning of light in


'Sculpture in the Close 2007'

Jesus College, Cambridge, pp.24. (J.G.; 8-10; 2 Image reproduced)

Rod Mengham, Catalogue text.

ISBN 0 9529665 4 9


'Cass Sculpture Foundation, 2004-2007'

Goodwood,

Text: Stephanie Cripps, Amy Puttman, James Tregaskes, Kate Sims.

Ed Wilde, Editing.

Pp80,81, 137 & 138.

ISBN 978-0-9537794-5-1


2006


'Royal Academy Illustrated 2006'

Alison Wilding, Editor

Pp129

Royal Academy of Arts

ISBN 1-903973-76-7


2005


'North, South, East and West, John Gibbons: New Work'

Sculpture in the Workplace, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London,

Anna Elliott, Pamphlet text.


'Sculpture in the Close 2005'

Jesus College, Cambridge, pp.24. (J.G.; 7; 1 Image reproduced, 6&7.

Rod Mengham. Catalogue text.

ISBN 0 9529665 2 2.


'Angela Flowers Gallery, 35th Anniversary Exhibition 2005'

Flowers East, London, 2005, pp 88 (J.G.; 26 & 27; 1 image reproduced, 5;)

Robert Heller, Catalogue text.

ISBN 1902945462.


'John Gibbons Charles Tyrrell'

Taylor Galleries, Dublin

ISBN 0-9551415-0-8


'John Gibbons and Charles Tyrrell: A Dialogue'

Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith


This temporary coming together of the work of two quite different artists is more akin to a conversation than collaboration. Born of a sense of mutual respect that gradually evolved over a



2004


'Tom Bendham: Collector'

Contemporary Art Society Exhibition, Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, London and touring; pp72, (J. G. 3 images reproduced).

Anna Elliott, Catalogue text, pp,11,12.

ISBN 0-9517550-2-1



2003


'The Post-Industrial Landscape'

The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic, pp 54, (J.G.; 20 – 25; 9 images reproduced).

Matthew Cheeseman, Catalogue text, pp, 20, 21.

ISBN: 80 -7056-116-5



2002


'Thinking Big Concepts for Twenty-First Century British Sculpture'

Peggy Guggenheim Collection', Venice, Italy. PP.174,

(J.G., section 23; 4 pages, 2 images reproduced).

Rod Mengham, Catalogue text, 'British Sculpture: – An Open Book' section 04.

ISBN 0-9537794-3-2


'The National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland'

New Additions 2002, Bourn Vincent Gallery,

John Logan, Catalogue text, pp 5.

University of Limerick, Ireland



2001


'STEELWORKS'

National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India.

PP 10, (J.G.; 3 - 4; 5 images reproduced).

Ranjit Hoskote, Catalogue text, pp, 2.



2000


'Sculpture, an Abbey and a Cathedral'

Dr. Judith Collins, Catalogue text, pp 8,9 and 17.

ISBN 1861740859


'British Contemporary Sculpture 00/01'

Ann Elliott, Catalogue text, pp. 58,59,103.

Sculpture at Goodwood.

ISBN 0953779408


'Sculpture and The Divine'

Zuleika Dobson, Exhibition guide text,

Winchester Cathedral, Winchester,



1999


'0044'

PSI, MOMA, New York, Albright-Knox Gallery Buffalo, New York, Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.

Vera Ryan, Catalogue text, pp 64,65,68,69.

ISBN 0946846 243.


'British Contemporary Sculpture 99/00'

Ann Elliott, Catalogue text, pp 58-59-107.

Sculpture at Goodwood.

ISBN 0952523396


'John Gibbons'

'Being' Nograd History Museum, Salgotarjan

Andre Hovarth Gallery, Balassagyarmat, Hungary

'Body and Soul', Flowers East, London,

'From the Hand', Taylor Galleries, Dublin

Karen Wilkin, Catalogue text, 'The Sculpture of John Gibbons',

pp 3-8, 17-22.

ISBN 1 873362 99 4



1998


'John Gibbons, The Small Sculptures 1981 – 1998'

Lothbury Gallery, London.

Paul Moorhouse, Catalogue text, 'Intimation and Intimacy': John Gibbons', Sculpture, pp 6-9.

ISBN 0 9530716 2 X


'John Gibbons Signs of Passage'

Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.

Vera Ryan, Catalogue text, 'Signs of Passage', pp 5,

6,15.

ISBN 0 9519146 42


'25 Years Kilkenny Arts Week | Butler Gallery'

The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

Mebh Ruane, Catalogue text, 'Kilkenny Arts Week'.



1997


'John Gibbons Form and Content'

Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Kettles Yard & Flowers East, London.

Paul Moorhouse, Catalogue text, 'From Form to Metaphor: John Gibbons' Sculpture', pp 5 - 23

ISBN 0 907074 62 6



1996


'John Gibbons From Night To Day'

The Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland

Aidan Dunne, Catalogue text, pp 2 – 4.


'FIS'

A Collaborative Project between Artist and Architects,

Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland,

John Gibbons & Eilis O'Donnell, pp 36 & 37.

Nathalie Weadick & Ralph Bingham, Editor's.

IMMA 1996

FIS Publishing, National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland.

ISBN 0 9529127 0 8



1995


'Irish Steel'

Mark Ewart, Catalogue text, pp 36 - 37.

Images, 37,38, 39, 42 & 43.

ISBN 0946641595.


'British Abstract Art, Part 2: Sculpture'

Flowers East, London.

Bryan Robertson, Catalogue text, pp15,

ISBN 1 873362 45 5



1994


'Lead and Follow The Continuity of Abstraction'

Bede Gallery, Jarrow & Atlantis Gallery, London.

Rebecca Fortnum; Introduction.

ISBN 1 898 669 03 1



1992


'John Gibbons, New Sculpture'

Angela Flowers Gallery, London Fields, London.

ISBN 1 873362 18 8



1990


'JOHN GIBBONS'

Flowers East Gallery, London

Tim Marlow, Catalogue text.

ISBN 1 873362 00 5



1987


Art Triangle Barcelona 1987

Teresa Blanch, Catalogue text, pp 180,

Karen Wilkin, Catalogue text, pp 182.

ISBN-84-7609-210-5



1986


'John Gibbons Sculpture 1981 - 86',

Serpentine Gallery, London.

Michael Harrison, Catalogue text, 'Temples of the Spirit'.

ISBN 07287 04935.


'Hardingham Sculpture Workshop'

Sainsbury Centre, Norwich

Images,pp, 8 & 9.

Valentine Tatransky, Catalogue text, pp,11,12,13,14 & 15


'John Gibbons/Mali Morris'

Woodlands Art Gallery, London.

Tim Hilton, Catalogue Text.


'Open - Air Sculpture Show'

Lincoln, Hull & Scunthorpe.

Louise West, Catalogue text.



1985


'Beyond Appearances'

Sculpture for the visually handicapped and sighted to share,

Arts Council Touring Exhibition:

Nottingham Castle Museum, Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Caernarvon Museum Mold, Oriel Theatre Clwyd, Barnsley, Cooper Gallery, pp15.

Michaela Butter, Introduction.

ISBN 0 7287 0453 6



1984


'Monument'

Bassin Art Centre, Maastricht; Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

John Gibbons & Stephen Salmine Marshall


‘Arts Council Collection Acquisitions 1979 - 83’

A concise illustrated catalogue of Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, and Photographs

purchased for the Arts Council of Great Britain between 1979 and 1983

PP 107 ( J.G. 44)

Published by Arts Council of Great Britain, 1984

ISBN 0 7287 04129


1983



'Why Sculpture - Part 1'

West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham, Surrey.

Dave King; Introduction.

Stuart Morgan; Text, 'Fathers and Sons'.

Brendan Prendeville; Text, 'Questions about Sculpture (and some tentative answers)'.



1982


'Triangle Artists' Workshop'

Inaugural Year, 1982

Anthony Caro & Robert Loder, Editors.



1981


'John Gibbons Sculpture'

Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London.

Geoff Rigden, Catalogue text.



1980


'The Material Object'

Hayden Gallery, Boston, USA.

Kathy Halbreich, Catalogue text.


'Sculpture and Painting at Canterbury'

Royal Museum, St. Augustine's Gardens & Canterbury College of Art Gallery, Canterbury.


'Air & Space Appeal Fund'

Contemporary Art Auction,

Lucy Havelock-Allen, Editor.

A.I.R. Gallery, London.

ISBN 0 907344 00 3.



1979


'John Gibbons Small Sculptures'

Project Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.

John McLean, Catalogue text.


'Style in the Seventies'

Liz Lydiate, Catalogue text.

ISBN 0309 2151


'The First Exhibition'

Nicola Jacobs Gallery,

London.



1978


'New Sculpture: Three Shows'

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

Richard Stokes, Catalogue text.