Carole Gibbons

A landscape shredded
Molly Rose Lieberman

(Pre-order Now)

Artist’s Relief
Emma Obrietan
(Upcoming)

Dear Beast
Carole Gibbons

Muses
Carole Gibbons

Galerie Mirages
Group Exhibition

To M.
Miriam Stoney,
Miriam Yammad

Dreams of the everyday
Andrew Cranston,
Winifred Nicholson

Pegasus
Carole Gibbons

Self-Portrait
Miriam Yammad

Not Quite Good Enough to be on TV Melodies
Joanne Robertson

Haven
Group Exhibition
(White Columns Online)

Free The Innovator
Theo Christy

Personicx
Theo Christy

The September Issue
Bruno Zhu

Andrew Cranston

Carole Gibbons

Andrew Cranston, Lucy Stein
Carole Gibbons

Debossed cloth hardcover
220 x 245 mm
160 pages
ISBN 978-1-7394251-0-4
£40.00

The best painting shuts me up. I mean painting like Henri Matisse, or Pierre Bonnard, or Edvard Munch, or Paula Modersohn-Becker. Or Carole Gibbons.
– Andrew Cranston

5b is honoured to publish the first monograph on the work of painter Carole Gibbons (b. 1935, Glasgow), one of the most distinctive and imaginative artists to have come out of Glasgow in the latter half of the 20th century. Her paintings burst with colour, hinting at narratives of both darkness and light. Rich in symbolism and narrative, the works fuse art-historical and mythological motifs with Gibbons' own lived experience, offering insights into a passionate and deeply-felt inner life.

Despite being one of the first women to exhibit in Glasgow's Third Eye Centre (now the CCA), Gibbons' oeuvre remains largely unknown. Heralded in her early career by peers Alasdair Gray, Douglas Abercrombie, and Alan Fletcher, Gibbons' life and work were subsequently plagued by misfortune, tragedy, and prejudice. Aside from an influential period in Spain, Gibbons has spent most of her life working in her Finnieston home where she raised her son, Henry. It is the scene of her most potent works: still lifes charged with the influence of Braque and Kirkeby, rendered in layers of murky earth tones, iridescent pigment, and astonishing washes of radiant colour.

Long overdue, the publication provides an eclectic survey of Gibbons' work, spanning various periods and subjects (mythological abstraction, self-portraits, the unconscious, domestic interiors) from large-scale canvases to works on paper, and includes texts by contemporary artists Lucy Stein and Andrew Cranston, which highlight the relevance of her legacy today.

A limited edition etching by Gibbons is also available.

U.S. customers are advised to order directly via our distributor Asterism in order to avoid increased shipping charges due to recently introduced tariffs.

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