allison gibbs (b. 1978 Penrith, Australia) is an artist working with 16mm film & video installation. As part of her research-based practice she also conducts an ongoing meeting group; A Development Circle for Radical Subjectivity.

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EDUCATION
2013
Masters of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, UK
The Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL (erasmus exchange)
2005
BFAHons (Photography) Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / WORKSHOPS / PERFORMANCES
2017
Oberhausen Film Festival Seminar. Selected participant
2016/17
Historicode: Scarcity & Supply; 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China
CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2015
fugue states. Two-person exhibition with Lauren Gault. Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
A Development Circle for Radical Subjectivity. Workshop as part of fugue states, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Ripples on The Pond. Screening and performative reading, Modern Edinburgh Film School for Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
MOTHS. Screening , Modern Edinburgh Film School for Summerhall, Edinburgh
Our Extra-Sensory Selves. Premiere screening (as work-in-progress), Glasgow Film Festival
3 Scripts for Future-Telling. Performance, Tenletters, Glasgow
2014
A Development Circle for Radical Subjectivity. Weekly extra-sensory meeting group. Triangle France, Marseille
Spirits of Ecstasy. Film script adaptation for The Happy Hypocrite- Heat Island. Issue 7, edited by Isla Leaver-Yap
Ruins. Group exhibition, BMO Gallery, Yellowknife, Canada
Let The Body Be Electric, Let There Be Whistleblowers. Allison Gibbs, Ken Jacobs and Joachim Koester, curated by Heidi Ballet and Anselm Franke. Dan Gunn Berlin.
Kelly. Jennifer Bailey, Allison Gibbs & Tessa Lynch. Collaborative Exhibition, Savoy Centre, Glasgow International
A Development Circle For Experimental Mediumship. Two-session workshop & Lecture. Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013
SPIRIT SHADOW SPECTRE BONES and PHANTOM. Solo Exhibition, Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow
Fall Scenes. Nita Begg, Olivier Castel, Sigurður Guðmundsson, William Raban & Lili Reynaud-Dewar. A Gibbs/Bailey/Lynch curatorial project
Tahiti/Monterey Death Drive. Talk/performance. Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Tahiti/Monterey Death Drive. Solo exhibition, 61 Westmorland Street, Glasgow
GSA MFA Graduate Exhibition. The Glue Factory, Glasgow
2012
Papyrus on the Cosmological Worktop (Joanna Russ). Journal 32, Victor & Hester, Sunday Art Fair, London
OOO Friends (Radio Piet). Group radio station. Kunstvlaai Festival of independents, Amsterdam
A Temporal Vertigo. Two-person exhibition with Alexis Dirks. Glasgow Project Room
2010
Modern Terra. Alexis Dirks, Christian Newby. Curatorial project. Spiers Locks wasteland. Glasgow International (Included programme)
2009
Self-made Cavalcade. Group exhibition. Edinburgh Arts Festival (Included programme)
2008
Pio Abad, Allison Gibbs, JM Thomson. Group exhibition. Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow
2007
Camera Obscura. Group exhibition. TCB, Melbourne
2006
Cubby. Solo exhibition. Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
PICA Photo-media Award. Group exhibition. Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth

RESIDENCIES
2015
The Barbershop, Alien Talk Summer School. Lisbon, Portugal
2014
Triangle France. Marseille, France
Hospitalfield Arts. Arbroath, UK
Rupert. Vilnius, Lithuania
2010
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Edinburgh, UK

PUBLICATIONS
2015
Ripples on The Pond. Modern Edinburgh Film School & Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2014
Spirits of Ecstasy. The Happy Hypocrite: Heat Island. Issue 7 guest edited by Isla Leaver-Yap. Bookworks, UK.
2013
The Free Arc of Life. Modern Edinburgh Film School
2012
Victor and Hester. Journal 32 for Sunday Art Fair, London

AWARDS
2014
Creative Scotland International Presentation and Promotion Fund Grant
Margaret Tait Award for Artists' Moving Image. Shortlisted Artist
Glasgow Visual Artists' Grant Scheme Award
2013
Arts Trust Scotland Grant
2011/13
Leverhulme Trust Award Educational Scholarship
2010
Scottish Arts Council Research and Development Grant
2009
Hope Scott Trust award
2005
National Gallery of Victoria Trustees Award

PRESS
2015
The Scotsman 'fugue states' review, Moira Jeffrey
The Scotsman 'fugue states', critics choice (visual art)
The Guardian Guide 'fugue states' preview
2014
Frieze 'Let The Body Be Electric, Let There Be Whistleblowers' review, Kirsty Bell
Art Agenda review, Stefan Heidenreich