DR. SIOBHAN MCGIBBON
B. 1986
Siobhan McGibbon is a Visual Artist, Researcher and World-builder with a transdisciplinary practice. Her expression mutates, merging sculpture, animation, drawing, permaculture and participatory installations.
McGibbon created the world of Xenophon (2015) with writer Maeve O'Lynn to query post-Anthropocene futures. The world unfolds with each body of work, collaborating with practitioners in specific fields to build the narrative.
Xenophon is activated in multiple contexts; galleries, labs, gardens, and site-specific and virtual interventions. Including; Galway Arts Centre (2023), Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2021), Sirius Arts Centre (2019), Triskel Arts Centre (2018), The Science Gallery (2017), TULCA (2017), The LAB (2017), Millennium Court Arts Centre (2016) and Galway city museum (2015).
EDUCATION
2020 Practice-based, research-led PhD, Limerick School of Art and Design
2009 B.A (Hon’s) Fine Art, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2025 CCAD, Derry
2026 Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Xenophon: Netflix and Disintegrate into Nothing and Everything, Pallas, Dublin
2024 Xenophon: Making Oddkin with Japanese knotweed, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 Xenophon: Making oddkin with Japanese knotweed, Galway Arts Centre.
2019 Life with Life inside, Sirius Arts Centre.
2018 Ubi tunx vox inaudite medlodia? Et vox inaudiae linguae? Triskel Arts Centre.
2018 Xenophon: From the beginning, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda Arts Festival.
2015 Technologies for internal explorations, Roscommon Art Centre.
2014 SpeciMEN, The Luan Gallery.
2014 The cultivation of a fallacy, The Linenhall Arts Centre.
2014 Existing on the edge of anatomy, The Talbot, Dublin.
2010 Overwhelming Pattern, Takt, Berlin.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Material Way, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Landscape, Enviroment, Ecology Residency Exhibition, Leitrim Sculpture Centre.
2019 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks, OPW associated with RTE and Earagail Arts Festival, The Glebe
Gallery Donegal.
2017 In case of emergency, The Science Gallery, Dublin.
2017 They call us the screamers, TULCA.
2017 Future Proof, The LAB, Dublin.
2017 Gut Instinct, Art, food and feeling, The Glucksman.
2016 Metamorphosis, 126 Artist-led space, Galway.
2016 Why is it always December, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Armagh.
2015 The future is here, CURUM Artist in Residence Exhibition.
2015 185th RHA Annual, RHA Dublin.
2014 Locating the gothic, International Gothic symposium, LSAD.
2014 New foundations seminar, biomedical building, NUI Galway.
2014 The 184th RHA annual, RHA, Dublin.
2014 Roscommon visual artist forum, Roscommon Art centre.
2014 ArtFarm Residency Exhibition, 126 Artist Led Space, Galway.
2013 Death Drive, Galway Arts Centre.
2013 The 183rd RHA Annual, Dublin.
2013 Future Perfect: we are here, Rubicon project, Brussels.
2012 What became of the people we used to be, Tulca, Galway.
2012 New Living Artist III, IMOCA, Dublin.
2012 Link Culture Festival, Block T, Dublin.
2011 Terrible Beauty- Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance" Dublin Contemporary.
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2015-19 Xenophon Project, McGibbon O’Lynn.
2011 Live8@on tour, Knee-jerk collective, Occupy space & Workman club, Sligo.
2011 Build your own fort, Knee-jerk collective, Galway Arts Centre & Basement project, Cork.
2011 A collective sigh of relief, Erasers, Knee-jerk collective, 126.
2011 Pass the giant parcel, Knee-jerk collective, Galway & CAT-DIG, Limerick.
2010 Outside/insight, Knee-jerk collective, Bridget's Garden, Galway.
2009 Rediscovering Locality, Knee-jerk collective, Cork art trail.
2009 Gridding, Knee-jerk collective, Silks, Galway.
2009 A novel landscape, Knee-jerk project, Lexslip library.
RESIDENCIES
2024 Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork.
2024 Mediamatic, Amsterdam
2021 Landscape, Enviroment, Ecology Residency, Leitrim Sculpture Centre.
2021 Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork
2019 SuperProjects, Dromore National school in-school residency, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
2018 Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
2018 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.
2014 Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
2013 126 ArtFarm Residency, County Galway.
2012 RHA, Dublin.
2010 Takt, Berlin.
AWARDS
2024 Project Award (research & dev) Arts Council of Ireland.
2024 Travel and Training Award, Cork County Council.
2023 Artist Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland.
2021 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
2020 Artist Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland.
2019 Artist Bursary, Cork County Council.
2018 Artist Bursary, Cork County Council.
2017 Artist Bursary, Galway City Council.
2016 Research, development and mentoring, Create.
2016 Artist Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland.
2014 Roscommon Visual artist forum Award.
2014 Visual Artist Bursary, Roscommon Arts Council.
2014 Limerick National City of culture Masters Scholarship.
2014 Wood Institute travel Grant, The College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
2013 RHA Conor Falon Sculpture award.
2009 GMIT Sculpture student of the year.
ART FACILITATION/COLLABORATIVE IN-SCHOOL PROJECTS
2023 Creative associate, Kilcoe National School, West Cork
2023 Frame Works, Kilcoe National School, West Cork
2023 BLAST, Kilcoe National School, West Cork
2023 BLAST, Maulatrahane National School, West Cork.
2022 Teacher & Artist Partnership (TAP), Ardfeild National school, West Cork.
2022 Teacher & Artist Partnership (TAP), Kilbrittain National school, West Cork.
2022 BLAST, Schull National School, West Cork.
2022 BLAST, Schull Community College, West Cork.
2022 BLAST, Lisheen National School, West Cork.
2019 Precognition, Skibbereen community college, Creative Schools, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre.
2019 Elemental, Super Projects, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre.
2018 Human beings and Human becoming’s, Super Projects, Baboro, Scoil Chroí Íosa, Galway Arts Centre.
2017 Polymorphism, The Red Bird Youth Collective, Galway Art Center, Galway.
2017 What more can we find? Artist interview,St. Marys School, Glasneven, the LAB Gallery, UCD/Parity
studios, NCCA
2016 The condition of others, Red bird youth collective, Galway Arts Centre, 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 Centre and Rehab Care.
TEACHING/LECTURING
2018 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Limerick School of Art and Design
2017 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Limerick School of Art and Design
2016 Visiting lecturer on the M.A Fine Arts, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
2016 Assisting lecturer, Semester one, B.A Fine Arts, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
2015 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Limerick School of Art and Design
2014 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Limerick School of Art and Design
2014 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
2013 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
2012 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
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.
TALKS/SYMPOSIUMS
2018 FREQUENCIES Symposium, National Sculpture Factory, Cork.
2018 Skibbereen: Lost City Hydrothermal Field, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre.
2018 Art and Science studio Practice, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre.
2018 Art and Science, Are we there yet?, Symposium, Science Gallery, Dublin.
2017 Challenging Catastrophes, Science Gallery, Dublin.
2017 Perspectives, Glucksman, Cork.
2017 Make symposium, Arts and Biology, Cork.
2016 Death/Dis-ease/Design Merriman house Limerick.
2016 National Youth Council get together, NUIG, Galway.
2015 The Future is here, Galway City Museum.
2015 Intersecting disciplines, CURUM, NUIG.
2014 ArtFarm, 126, Galway.
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Xenophon: Ex Aqua Renascences, Life with Life inside, Publication.
2017 The Xenophon Project, The Honest Ulsterman.
2016 The Xenophon Tapes, The Stinging Fly.
2016 Para-humans, Cyborgs and Empathy in the digital age, Visual Artist Ireland.
2016 Gregory McCarthy, Only Those who risk going too far can find out how far we will possibly go, The Future is here.
B. 1986
Siobhan McGibbon is a Visual Artist, Researcher and World-builder with a transdisciplinary practice. Her expression mutates, merging sculpture, animation, drawing, permaculture and participatory installations.
McGibbon created the world of Xenophon (2015) with writer Maeve O'Lynn to query post-Anthropocene futures. The world unfolds with each body of work, collaborating with practitioners in specific fields to build the narrative.
Xenophon is activated in multiple contexts; galleries, labs, gardens, and site-specific and virtual interventions. Including; Galway Arts Centre (2023), Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2021), Sirius Arts Centre (2019), Triskel Arts Centre (2018), The Science Gallery (2017), TULCA (2017), The LAB (2017), Millennium Court Arts Centre (2016) and Galway city museum (2015).
EDUCATION
2020 Practice-based, research-led PhD, Limerick School of Art and Design
2009 B.A (Hon’s) Fine Art, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2025 CCAD, Derry
2026 Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Xenophon: Netflix and Disintegrate into Nothing and Everything, Pallas, Dublin
2024 Xenophon: Making Oddkin with Japanese knotweed, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 Xenophon: Making oddkin with Japanese knotweed, Galway Arts Centre.
2019 Life with Life inside, Sirius Arts Centre.
2018 Ubi tunx vox inaudite medlodia? Et vox inaudiae linguae? Triskel Arts Centre.
2018 Xenophon: From the beginning, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda Arts Festival.
2015 Technologies for internal explorations, Roscommon Art Centre.
2014 SpeciMEN, The Luan Gallery.
2014 The cultivation of a fallacy, The Linenhall Arts Centre.
2014 Existing on the edge of anatomy, The Talbot, Dublin.
2010 Overwhelming Pattern, Takt, Berlin.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Material Way, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Landscape, Enviroment, Ecology Residency Exhibition, Leitrim Sculpture Centre.
2019 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks, OPW associated with RTE and Earagail Arts Festival, The Glebe
Gallery Donegal.
2017 In case of emergency, The Science Gallery, Dublin.
2017 They call us the screamers, TULCA.
2017 Future Proof, The LAB, Dublin.
2017 Gut Instinct, Art, food and feeling, The Glucksman.
2016 Metamorphosis, 126 Artist-led space, Galway.
2016 Why is it always December, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Armagh.
2015 The future is here, CURUM Artist in Residence Exhibition.
2015 185th RHA Annual, RHA Dublin.
2014 Locating the gothic, International Gothic symposium, LSAD.
2014 New foundations seminar, biomedical building, NUI Galway.
2014 The 184th RHA annual, RHA, Dublin.
2014 Roscommon visual artist forum, Roscommon Art centre.
2014 ArtFarm Residency Exhibition, 126 Artist Led Space, Galway.
2013 Death Drive, Galway Arts Centre.
2013 The 183rd RHA Annual, Dublin.
2013 Future Perfect: we are here, Rubicon project, Brussels.
2012 What became of the people we used to be, Tulca, Galway.
2012 New Living Artist III, IMOCA, Dublin.
2012 Link Culture Festival, Block T, Dublin.
2011 Terrible Beauty- Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance" Dublin Contemporary.
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2015-19 Xenophon Project, McGibbon O’Lynn.
2011 Live8@on tour, Knee-jerk collective, Occupy space & Workman club, Sligo.
2011 Build your own fort, Knee-jerk collective, Galway Arts Centre & Basement project, Cork.
2011 A collective sigh of relief, Erasers, Knee-jerk collective, 126.
2011 Pass the giant parcel, Knee-jerk collective, Galway & CAT-DIG, Limerick.
2010 Outside/insight, Knee-jerk collective, Bridget's Garden, Galway.
2009 Rediscovering Locality, Knee-jerk collective, Cork art trail.
2009 Gridding, Knee-jerk collective, Silks, Galway.
2009 A novel landscape, Knee-jerk project, Lexslip library.
RESIDENCIES
2024 Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork.
2024 Mediamatic, Amsterdam
2021 Landscape, Enviroment, Ecology Residency, Leitrim Sculpture Centre.
2021 Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork
2019 SuperProjects, Dromore National school in-school residency, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
2018 Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre
2018 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.
2014 Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
2013 126 ArtFarm Residency, County Galway.
2012 RHA, Dublin.
2010 Takt, Berlin.
AWARDS
2024 Project Award (research & dev) Arts Council of Ireland.
2024 Travel and Training Award, Cork County Council.
2023 Artist Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland.
2021 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
2020 Artist Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland.
2019 Artist Bursary, Cork County Council.
2018 Artist Bursary, Cork County Council.
2017 Artist Bursary, Galway City Council.
2016 Research, development and mentoring, Create.
2016 Artist Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland.
2014 Roscommon Visual artist forum Award.
2014 Visual Artist Bursary, Roscommon Arts Council.
2014 Limerick National City of culture Masters Scholarship.
2014 Wood Institute travel Grant, The College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
2013 RHA Conor Falon Sculpture award.
2009 GMIT Sculpture student of the year.
ART FACILITATION/COLLABORATIVE IN-SCHOOL PROJECTS
2023 Creative associate, Kilcoe National School, West Cork
2023 Frame Works, Kilcoe National School, West Cork
2023 BLAST, Kilcoe National School, West Cork
2023 BLAST, Maulatrahane National School, West Cork.
2022 Teacher & Artist Partnership (TAP), Ardfeild National school, West Cork.
2022 Teacher & Artist Partnership (TAP), Kilbrittain National school, West Cork.
2022 BLAST, Schull National School, West Cork.
2022 BLAST, Schull Community College, West Cork.
2022 BLAST, Lisheen National School, West Cork.
2019 Precognition, Skibbereen community college, Creative Schools, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre.
2019 Elemental, Super Projects, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre.
2018 Human beings and Human becoming’s, Super Projects, Baboro, Scoil Chroí Íosa, Galway Arts Centre.
2017 Polymorphism, The Red Bird Youth Collective, Galway Art Center, Galway.
2017 What more can we find? Artist interview,St. Marys School, Glasneven, the LAB Gallery, UCD/Parity
studios, NCCA
2016 The condition of others, Red bird youth collective, Galway Arts Centre, 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 Centre and Rehab Care.
TEACHING/LECTURING
2018 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Limerick School of Art and Design
2017 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Limerick School of Art and Design
2016 Visiting lecturer on the M.A Fine Arts, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
2016 Assisting lecturer, Semester one, B.A Fine Arts, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
2015 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Limerick School of Art and Design
2014 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Limerick School of Art and Design
2014 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
2013 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
2012 Visiting lecturer on the B.A Fine Arts, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
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.
TALKS/SYMPOSIUMS
2018 FREQUENCIES Symposium, National Sculpture Factory, Cork.
2018 Skibbereen: Lost City Hydrothermal Field, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre.
2018 Art and Science studio Practice, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre.
2018 Art and Science, Are we there yet?, Symposium, Science Gallery, Dublin.
2017 Challenging Catastrophes, Science Gallery, Dublin.
2017 Perspectives, Glucksman, Cork.
2017 Make symposium, Arts and Biology, Cork.
2016 Death/Dis-ease/Design Merriman house Limerick.
2016 National Youth Council get together, NUIG, Galway.
2015 The Future is here, Galway City Museum.
2015 Intersecting disciplines, CURUM, NUIG.
2014 ArtFarm, 126, Galway.
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Xenophon: Ex Aqua Renascences, Life with Life inside, Publication.
2017 The Xenophon Project, The Honest Ulsterman.
2016 The Xenophon Tapes, The Stinging Fly.
2016 Para-humans, Cyborgs and Empathy in the digital age, Visual Artist Ireland.
2016 Gregory McCarthy, Only Those who risk going too far can find out how far we will possibly go, The Future is here.
