Louise Gibson
Louise Gibson
Louise Gibson works instinctively with a variety of collected materials, selecting familiar unsensational objects and fabric and bonding them with combinations of polyester resin. The work is emotively organic, visually resplendent and embodies layers of intriguing narrative. The artist’s work is a visual indulgence and boldly contradicts itself, it feels masculine but also feminine, vibrant and beautiful but raw and gross, solid and dry but soft and wet. Despite its physical rigidity it contains an almost loose and live fluidity, guiding viewers eyes in and around relatable yet undistinguishable marks and forms. Gibson predominantly combines polyester resins with recycled fabrics, using various practical processes to complete work, sculpting casts at marble factories, moulding metals with onsite metal recycling machinery and lacquering art works at local car garages.
Originating from Scotland, Louise Gibson graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009 and in 2012 relocated the studio to Berlin where she worked until the end of 2017. Gibson is currently based at The Edinburgh Sculpture workshop, dividing her time making public art, independently exhibiting and working on a research project with Polynt Composites a global resin manufacturer.