- Venue
- Putney Library
- Starts
- Tuesday, October 22, 2024
- Ends
- Thursday, October 31, 2024
- Address
- 5-7 Disraeli Road, Putney, London, SW15 2DR
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- Putney Library
Artist-designer Jo Gibbs presents her latest exhibition of upcycled works at Putney Library, incorporating her signature ‘netching’ technique.
Forty years after attending her first art classes at Putney College that inspired an exciting career in design, Jo Gibbs presents an exhibition of her latest works at Putney Library. ‘Smashed Up’ comprises a series of arresting art works made from abandoned materials found on skips and street corners, for a brilliant mix of fun, politics, surrealism and surprises.
Her latest collection includes slates that billow with beautiful etching, old mirrors transformed into optical worlds, a (found) chair with spinning avocado balls, and objects augmented with her signature ‘netching’ technique, a method that transfers complex repeating lace patterns onto natural surfaces. Jo Gibbs “transforms the unwanted to the sublime” (Vogue) in a style that has become synonymous with the artist.
“Jo Gibbs breathes new life into humdrum objects with a gentle delicacy that gives them new meaning. The success of this kind of work depends on a great eye and a sensitive approach.” Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs
About the artist
Jo Gibbs trained at Chelsea School of Art in Textile Design and graduated as a Master of Arts with a distinction. Global lifestyle brand Anthropologie bought her entire degree show of etched slates, Bauhaus chairs and mirrors, for their gallery in New York’s Rockefeller Centre. Since then her work has been featured extensively in the magazines such as Country Homes and Interiors, Metro, At Casa, Evening Standard, Selvedge, Living Etc and Mix.
She has been selected for London Design Week, as one of Kevin McCloud’s Green Heroes, and shown at The King’s Foundation’s ‘Arts and Crafts House’ and ‘Best of Britain’ exhibitions. Jo has worked in Italy as a textile designer for haute couture fashion houses Armani, Dries Van Noten and Lacroix. Since 2012 she has worked as an independent designer and artist from her studio in Stockwell, London. She has sold and displayed work for businesses including Wahaca, Peddlars, Bskincare and Paul Smith, and most recently The Lansdowne Club in Mayfair.
Jo Gibbs: Smashed Up
1-31 October 2024
Putney Library, 5-7 Disraeli Road
Putney, London, SW15 2DR
‘Smashed Up’ will be displayed at Putney Library for the month of October and is free to visit. The exhibition is supported by Brixton Brewery, Brixton Beer, and Arts Council England.
Opening times:
Monday: 9am – 8pm
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 9am – 8pm
Thursday: 9am – 8pm
Friday: 9am – 5pm
Saturday: 9am – 5pm
Sunday: 1pm – 5pm
Workshop: Get Creative
Wednesday 30 October 2-7pm
Join Jo for a workshop in painting onto avocado skins! (max 20)
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Follow Jo on Instagram: @jogibbslondon
