Allison Gibbs
Residency at Triangle-Astérides, as part of a cross-residency program with Glasgow Sculpture Studios (GB-SCT).
Allison Gibbs was born in 1978 in Australia and lives and works in Glasgow (UK).
Allison Gibbs’ work unfolds across various media, including 16mm film, video, writing, and extrasensory activities. She develops a methodology centered on translating elements into actions and nouns into verbs. Like a medium, she seeks to centralize diverse trajectories of information and represent them within her artistic practice. The radical potential of extrasensory activities, transversal subjectivity, and esoteric systems of production and reception forms the foundation of her current research.
Allison Gibbs graduated with a Master of Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art in 2013, following an Erasmus exchange year at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (NL). Her recent exhibitions include “Let the Body Be Electric, Let There Be Whistleblowers” with Joachim Koester and Ken Jacobs at Dan Gunn Gallery, Berlin; “Kelly” with Jennifer Bailey, Tessa Lynch, and Thorgerdur Olafsdottir for Glasgow International 2014; her solo exhibition “SPIRIT SHADOW SPECTRE BONES and PHANTOM” at Intermedia, CCA Glasgow; and “Fall Scenes” at 134 Renfrew St. In 2014, she was a finalist for the Lux/Glasgow International Film Festival Margaret Tait Award and will publish an adaptation of the script for her film Spirits of Ecstasy (Murnau’s Death Mask) in the upcoming issue of “The Happy Hypocrite - Heat Island” (Issue 7, Spring 2014, edited by Isla Leaver-Yap).
About the residency
In 2022, Glasgow Sculpture Studios (GSS) and Triangle-Astérides celebrated the 10th anniversary of their Residency Exchange programme.
Established in 2012, the residency exchange is designed for artists at a pivotal point in their career who have not had major institutional support or the opportunity to develop work abroad. The programme enables Glasgow-based artists and creative practitioners to work, share practice, and learn new skills in France, while facilitating the reciprocal experience for artists based in Marseille to travel to Glasgow and experience the cultural landscape of Scotland.
The partnership between GSS and Triangle-Astérides developed from Glasgow and Marseille’s designation as twin cities in 2006. Both organisations have a history of making culture a centrepiece of life within their cities. Based in former industrial hubs, GSS and Triangle-Astérides share similar objectives, challenges, and working contexts. Both organisations underpin the creative communities of their respective cities through nurturing a supportive and diverse artistic community and providing access to access to artist studios, high-quality production facilities, and cultural networks.
As we continue into another decade of the Residency Exchange Programme, we have formalised the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) as partners in the project. The CCA team have long been supporters of this programme in a variety of ways; through studio visits, in-kind support, and working with the incoming artists from Marseille to present public outcomes from their residency as part of CCA’s Open Source Programme, we are excited to continue to acknowledge and embed this support in our exchange programme.
As organisations, GSS and CCA complement each other well; with GSS able to offer the space and resources to make work, and CCA offering the space and means to share work in addition to offering their Artist Flat as accommodation. Through working in partnership and combining our skills, resources, and expertise as organisations we’re able to provide an enhanced offer to artists from Marseille that will ensure they are well positioned to make the most of creative ecology of Glasgow.