Juliet E P Gibbs

I have always painted. It's a way of re-seeing the world, taking more than five minutes to digest a scene and scrutinising it until it becomes more beautiful in its mundanity.

Currently, my interest is in painting glasshouses. Seeing tropical, other-worldly plants in fake jungles with walls and ceilings, no skies above or deep earth beneath. Just concrete and glass and metal and mist.

Glasshouses are microcosmic environments: structures containing exotic lands. Long boxes of heat and condensation and palms and huge, house-sized leaves. Things that shouldn't exist on English soil that DO exist on English soil.

Recently, my work has centred around brutalist architecture and the contrast between the man-made and the natural.

The process of painting pushes me to make things, and therefore I am constantly trying to find different ways of representing parts of an image. Translucency has been a focus recently, you might see this as you look through the paintings and notice hovering windows or frames. Ideas of glass and between-states.

Falmouth University - BA Fine Art (First Class Hons) 2015-18

PAST

Artshake International Gathering, in collaboration with UKYA @ Chongming Island, Shanghai: 3rd September - 16th September

The Open Contemporary Young Artist Award @ The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle: 17th May - 25th August

G R A F T @ The Harris Museum in Preston: 5th April - 5th June 2019

RBA Rising Stars @ Royal Over-seas League: 26th April - 19th June 2019

UK Young Artists City Takeover @ Nottingham: 7th February - 15th February 2019

SW Grad Show @ Exeter Phoenix: 23rd November - 27th December 2018.

Rising Stars @ Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth: 19th October 2018

Best of the South West @ Pound Arts, Corsham: 7th July - 1st September 2018

Falmouth Fine Art London Showcase @ The Copeland Gallery, Peckham: June 28th - 1st July 2018

Falmouth University Degree Show: May 25th - 1st June 2018