DR SIOBHAN MCGIBBON
B.1986
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Siobhan McGibbon is a Visual Artist & world-builder based in West-Cork. Her expression mutates, merging sculpture, animation, drawing & participatory installations.
McGibbon has spent 5 years developing the world of Xenophon to query the possibilities of a good Anthropocene, as part of her practice-based, research- led PhD. The world unfolds with each body of work, collaborating with practitioners in specific fields to build the narrative. Each chapter manifests through experimental enquiries with traditional & cutting edge techniques to create multi-layered scenarios. Xenophon is activated in multiple contexts; galleries, labs, site-specific interventions, & virtual archives.
McGibbon has a special interest in collaborative, transdisciplinary storytelling, collaborating with practitioners in diverging fields to build the world narrative. Collaborative enquires include; a 5-year collaboration with writer Maeve O’Lynn developing Xenothorpian culture and working CURAM, the centre for research in medical devices and REMEDI, the regenerative medicine institute to imagine the origin of species.
Her most recent exhibition Life with Life inside in Sirius Arts Centre (2019), transfigured the gallery space, enveloping the audience in the alter- imaginary of Xenophon. Other activations of the world include Ubi tunc vox inauditae melodiae?, Triskel Arts Centre (2018), 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks curated by Cristín Leach (2017), In Case Of Emergency, The Science Gallery, Dublin, They call us the Screamers, Tulca, Future Proof, The LAB
EDUCATION
2014-2020
Practice-based, research-led PhD, Limerick School of Art and Design
2005-2009
B.A (Hon’s) Fine Art, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Life with Life inside, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, (McGibbon O'Lynn Solo)
2018
XENOPHON: UBI TUNC VOX INAUDITAE MELODIAE? ET VOX INAUDITAE LINGUAE?, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (McGibbon O'Lynn Solo)
Xenophon: From the beginning, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda Arts Festival (McGibbon O'Lynn Solo)
2015
Technologies that for internal explorations, Roscommon Art Centre
2014
SpeciMEN, The Luan gallery, Athlone
The cultivation of a fallacy, Linenhall arts center, Mayo
Existing on the edge of anatomy, The Talbot, Dublin
Overwhelming Pattern, Takt, Berlin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Landscape Environment Ecology Residency exhibition, Leitrim Sculpture Centre.
2019
21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks, office of public works in association with RTE and Earagail arts festival, The Glebe Gallery Donegal.
2017
In case of emergency, The Science Gallery, Dublin
They call us the screamers, TULCA, Galway
Future Proof, The LAB, Dublin
Gut Instinct, Art, food and feeling, The Glucksman, Cork
2016
Metamorphosis, 126 Artist led space, Galway
Why is it always December, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Armagh
2015
The future is here, CURUM Artist in Residence Exhibition
185th RHA Annual, RHA Dublin
2014
Locating the gothic, International Gothic symposium, LSAD
New foundations seminar, biomedical building, NUI Galway
The 184th RHA annual, RHA, Dublin
Roscommon visual artist forum, Roscommon Art center
ArtFarm Residency Exhibition, 126 Artist Led Space, Galway
2013
Death Drive, Galway Arts Center
The 183rd RHA Annual, Dublin
Future Perfect: we are here, Rubicon project Brussels
2012
What became of the people we used to be, Tulca, Galway
New Living Artist III, IMOCA, Dublin
2011
Terrible Beauty- Art, Crisis, Change & The office of Non Compliance" Dublin Contemporary
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2015-present: Xenophon Project, McGibbon O’Lynn
2011
Live8@on tour, Knee-jerk collective project, Occupy space
Live8@on tour, Knee-jerk collective project, Workman club, Sligo
Build your own fort, Knee-jerk collective project, Galway arts Centre
A collective sigh of relief, Erasers, Knee-jerk collective project, 126
Pass the giant parcel, Knee-jerk collective project, Galway
Pass the giant parcel, Knee-jerk collective project, CAT-DIG, Limerick
2010
Outside/insight, Knee-jerk collective project, Bridget's Garden, Galway
M.Y.O.I, Knee-jerk collective project, Galway Arts Centre
M.Y.O.I, Knee-jerk collective project, Boon tea rooms, cork
Build your own fort, Knee-jerk collective project, Basement project, Cork
M.Y.O.I, Knee-jerk collective project, Boon tearooms, cork
Pass the giant parcel, Knee-jerk collective project, Galway
Pass the giant parcel, Knee-jerk collective project, CAT-DIG, Limerick
2009
Rediscovering Locality, Knee-jerk collective project, Cork art trail
Gridding, Knee-jerk collective project, Silks, Galway
A novel landscape, Knee-jerk collective project, Lexslip library
RESIDENCIES
2020-2021
Landscape Environment Ecology Residency exhibition, Leitrim Sculpture Centre.
2019
SuperProjects, Dromore National school in-school residency, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork
2018
Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork.
SuperProjects, Scoil Chroí Íosa in-school residency, Galway Arts Centre, Galway.
2016
REMEDI- Regenerative medicine institute,Galway.
2015
CÚRAM - Centre for Research in Medical Devices,Galway.
2014
Galway University Hospital, Galway city
Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia
2013
126 ArtFarm Residency, County Galway
2012
RHA, Dublin
2010
Takt, Berlin
ART FACILITATION/TEACHING PROJECTS
2019
Precognition, Skibbereen community college, Creative Schools, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre Elemental, Super Projects, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
2018
Human beings and Human becomings, Super Projects, Baboro, Scoil Chroí Íosa, and Galway Arts Centre
2017
Polymorphism, The Red Bird Youth Collective, Galway Art Center, Galway
What more can we find? Artist interview with students from St. Marys School, Glasneven, In collaboration with the LAB gallery, UCD/Parity studios, NCCA
2016
The condition of others, The Red bird youth collective and The Silent Maroon Rabbit Gang, Galway Arts Centre and CHAMS, supported by the National youth council of Ireland.
2015
The Condition of others, Red bird youth collective and The Purple Lemons, supported by the National youth council of Ireland.
2013
The Crocodile heads, Galway Arts Center and RehabCare
TALKS/SYMPOSIUMS
2018
FREQUENCIES Symposium, National Sculpture Factory, Cork
Skibbereen: Lost City Hydrothermal Field, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
Art and Science studio Practice, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
Art and Science, Are we there yet?, Symposium, Science Gallery, Dublin
2017
Challanging Catastrophes, Science Gallery, Dublin
Perspectives, Glucksman, Cork
Make symposium, Arts and Biology, Cork
2016
Death/Dis-ease/Design Merriman house Limerick
National Youth Council get together, NUIG, Galway
2015
The Future is here, Galway City Museum
Intersecting disciplines, CURUM, NUIG
2014
ArtFarm, 126, Galway
PUBLICATIONS
2017
The Xenophon Project, The Honest Ulsterman
2016
The Xenophon Tapes, The Stinging Fly
Para-humans, Cyborgs and Empathy in the digital age, Visual Artist Irealnd
Gregory McCarthy, Only Those who risk going to far can find our how far we will possibly go, The Future is here Publication
AWARDS
2018
Individual Artist Bursary,Cork County Council
2017
Individual Artist Bursary,Cork County Council
2016
Research, development and mentoring, Create.
Individual Artist Bursary, Arts council of Ireland
2014
Roscommon Visual artist forum Award
Roscommon Arts Council Visual Artist bursary
Limerick National City of culture Masters Scholarship
Wood Institute travel Grant, The College of Physicians, Philadelphia
2013
RHA Conor Falon Sculpture award
2009
GMIT Sculpture student of the year
BOARD OF DIRECTORSHIPS
2010- 2012
Board of Directors, 126 Artist Led Space, Galway
2010- 2011
Board of Directors, Tulca, Festival of Visual arts, Galway
2010- 2012
Board of Directors, Engage Studios, Galway
B.1986
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Siobhan McGibbon is a Visual Artist & world-builder based in West-Cork. Her expression mutates, merging sculpture, animation, drawing & participatory installations.
McGibbon has spent 5 years developing the world of Xenophon to query the possibilities of a good Anthropocene, as part of her practice-based, research- led PhD. The world unfolds with each body of work, collaborating with practitioners in specific fields to build the narrative. Each chapter manifests through experimental enquiries with traditional & cutting edge techniques to create multi-layered scenarios. Xenophon is activated in multiple contexts; galleries, labs, site-specific interventions, & virtual archives.
McGibbon has a special interest in collaborative, transdisciplinary storytelling, collaborating with practitioners in diverging fields to build the world narrative. Collaborative enquires include; a 5-year collaboration with writer Maeve O’Lynn developing Xenothorpian culture and working CURAM, the centre for research in medical devices and REMEDI, the regenerative medicine institute to imagine the origin of species.
Her most recent exhibition Life with Life inside in Sirius Arts Centre (2019), transfigured the gallery space, enveloping the audience in the alter- imaginary of Xenophon. Other activations of the world include Ubi tunc vox inauditae melodiae?, Triskel Arts Centre (2018), 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks curated by Cristín Leach (2017), In Case Of Emergency, The Science Gallery, Dublin, They call us the Screamers, Tulca, Future Proof, The LAB
EDUCATION
2014-2020
Practice-based, research-led PhD, Limerick School of Art and Design
2005-2009
B.A (Hon’s) Fine Art, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Life with Life inside, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, (McGibbon O'Lynn Solo)
2018
XENOPHON: UBI TUNC VOX INAUDITAE MELODIAE? ET VOX INAUDITAE LINGUAE?, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (McGibbon O'Lynn Solo)
Xenophon: From the beginning, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda Arts Festival (McGibbon O'Lynn Solo)
2015
Technologies that for internal explorations, Roscommon Art Centre
2014
SpeciMEN, The Luan gallery, Athlone
The cultivation of a fallacy, Linenhall arts center, Mayo
Existing on the edge of anatomy, The Talbot, Dublin
Overwhelming Pattern, Takt, Berlin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Landscape Environment Ecology Residency exhibition, Leitrim Sculpture Centre.
2019
21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks, office of public works in association with RTE and Earagail arts festival, The Glebe Gallery Donegal.
2017
In case of emergency, The Science Gallery, Dublin
They call us the screamers, TULCA, Galway
Future Proof, The LAB, Dublin
Gut Instinct, Art, food and feeling, The Glucksman, Cork
2016
Metamorphosis, 126 Artist led space, Galway
Why is it always December, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Armagh
2015
The future is here, CURUM Artist in Residence Exhibition
185th RHA Annual, RHA Dublin
2014
Locating the gothic, International Gothic symposium, LSAD
New foundations seminar, biomedical building, NUI Galway
The 184th RHA annual, RHA, Dublin
Roscommon visual artist forum, Roscommon Art center
ArtFarm Residency Exhibition, 126 Artist Led Space, Galway
2013
Death Drive, Galway Arts Center
The 183rd RHA Annual, Dublin
Future Perfect: we are here, Rubicon project Brussels
2012
What became of the people we used to be, Tulca, Galway
New Living Artist III, IMOCA, Dublin
2011
Terrible Beauty- Art, Crisis, Change & The office of Non Compliance" Dublin Contemporary
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2015-present: Xenophon Project, McGibbon O’Lynn
2011
Live8@on tour, Knee-jerk collective project, Occupy space
Live8@on tour, Knee-jerk collective project, Workman club, Sligo
Build your own fort, Knee-jerk collective project, Galway arts Centre
A collective sigh of relief, Erasers, Knee-jerk collective project, 126
Pass the giant parcel, Knee-jerk collective project, Galway
Pass the giant parcel, Knee-jerk collective project, CAT-DIG, Limerick
2010
Outside/insight, Knee-jerk collective project, Bridget's Garden, Galway
M.Y.O.I, Knee-jerk collective project, Galway Arts Centre
M.Y.O.I, Knee-jerk collective project, Boon tea rooms, cork
Build your own fort, Knee-jerk collective project, Basement project, Cork
M.Y.O.I, Knee-jerk collective project, Boon tearooms, cork
Pass the giant parcel, Knee-jerk collective project, Galway
Pass the giant parcel, Knee-jerk collective project, CAT-DIG, Limerick
2009
Rediscovering Locality, Knee-jerk collective project, Cork art trail
Gridding, Knee-jerk collective project, Silks, Galway
A novel landscape, Knee-jerk collective project, Lexslip library
RESIDENCIES
2020-2021
Landscape Environment Ecology Residency exhibition, Leitrim Sculpture Centre.
2019
SuperProjects, Dromore National school in-school residency, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork
2018
Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork.
SuperProjects, Scoil Chroí Íosa in-school residency, Galway Arts Centre, Galway.
2016
REMEDI- Regenerative medicine institute,Galway.
2015
CÚRAM - Centre for Research in Medical Devices,Galway.
2014
Galway University Hospital, Galway city
Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia
2013
126 ArtFarm Residency, County Galway
2012
RHA, Dublin
2010
Takt, Berlin
ART FACILITATION/TEACHING PROJECTS
2019
Precognition, Skibbereen community college, Creative Schools, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre Elemental, Super Projects, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
2018
Human beings and Human becomings, Super Projects, Baboro, Scoil Chroí Íosa, and Galway Arts Centre
2017
Polymorphism, The Red Bird Youth Collective, Galway Art Center, Galway
What more can we find? Artist interview with students from St. Marys School, Glasneven, In collaboration with the LAB gallery, UCD/Parity studios, NCCA
2016
The condition of others, The Red bird youth collective and The Silent Maroon Rabbit Gang, Galway Arts Centre and CHAMS, supported by the National youth council of Ireland.
2015
The Condition of others, Red bird youth collective and The Purple Lemons, supported by the National youth council of Ireland.
2013
The Crocodile heads, Galway Arts Center and RehabCare
TALKS/SYMPOSIUMS
2018
FREQUENCIES Symposium, National Sculpture Factory, Cork
Skibbereen: Lost City Hydrothermal Field, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
Art and Science studio Practice, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
Art and Science, Are we there yet?, Symposium, Science Gallery, Dublin
2017
Challanging Catastrophes, Science Gallery, Dublin
Perspectives, Glucksman, Cork
Make symposium, Arts and Biology, Cork
2016
Death/Dis-ease/Design Merriman house Limerick
National Youth Council get together, NUIG, Galway
2015
The Future is here, Galway City Museum
Intersecting disciplines, CURUM, NUIG
2014
ArtFarm, 126, Galway
PUBLICATIONS
2017
The Xenophon Project, The Honest Ulsterman
2016
The Xenophon Tapes, The Stinging Fly
Para-humans, Cyborgs and Empathy in the digital age, Visual Artist Irealnd
Gregory McCarthy, Only Those who risk going to far can find our how far we will possibly go, The Future is here Publication
AWARDS
2018
Individual Artist Bursary,Cork County Council
2017
Individual Artist Bursary,Cork County Council
2016
Research, development and mentoring, Create.
Individual Artist Bursary, Arts council of Ireland
2014
Roscommon Visual artist forum Award
Roscommon Arts Council Visual Artist bursary
Limerick National City of culture Masters Scholarship
Wood Institute travel Grant, The College of Physicians, Philadelphia
2013
RHA Conor Falon Sculpture award
2009
GMIT Sculpture student of the year
BOARD OF DIRECTORSHIPS
2010- 2012
Board of Directors, 126 Artist Led Space, Galway
2010- 2011
Board of Directors, Tulca, Festival of Visual arts, Galway
2010- 2012
Board of Directors, Engage Studios, Galway
