Melinda Gibson

Biography

Melinda Gibson is an artist and educator based in London. Gibson works at the boundaries of photography, where pre-existing codes and theories are questioned through experimental and process based methods. Her practice is grounded in contemporary visual digestion, where appropriation, re-interruption of existing material is formulated anew. She is a Senior Lecturer and leads the Third Year of BA Fine Art Photography at Camberwell College of Arts.

Selected exhibitions and displays include; Beg, Steal and Borrow, Bermondsey Project Space, (London 2020), Remembrance, ROSEGALLERY (Santa Monica, 2018-19), Reversiones, Centro de la Imagen, (Mexico City 2017-2018), A Motley Crew, Christian Larsen Gallery (Stockholm, 2017), Surface Tension, FOMU (Belgium 2017), Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts (London 2016) Second Hands, Galerie Binome (Paris, 2016) Her First Meteorite, Volumes I & II, ROSEGALLERY (Santa Monica, 2016) Unseen Photo Fair, Flowers Gallery (Amsterdam 2015), The SmokeHouse, Performative Installation, Turbine Hall Tate Modern, (London 2015) The Beijing Silvermine, Galerie Paris-Beijing (Brussels 2014) The Constructed View: UK Photography Now at Dong Gang Museum of Photography (South Korea 2013) In Appropriation, The Houston Centre of Photography (Houston 2012) The New Alchemists – Contemporary Photographers Transcending the Print (London 2012) and Alice in Wonderland, Logomo - Turku European Capital of Culture (Finland 2011). Melinda has exhibited widely across Europe, United States and Australia.

Gibson is a recipient of Foam Talent Call and Magenta Foundation Award 2010. She was selected as 1 of the Jury members for the Unseen Dummy Award 2013 and was a finalist in the Unseen Meijburg & Co Art Commission as well as being nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award in 2014 & 2015.

Her work has been featured and reviewed in, Dazed and Confused, AnOther Magazine, Nowness, Marie Claire, Material Girl, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Harpers Bizarre, Objektiv, Vogue Italia, The Photographer's Playbook by Aperture, a-n, Beg Steal Borrow amoung others.

Gibson is the author of three titles, including the reworked The Photograph As Contemporary Art, Miss Titus Becomes A Regular Army Mac and SPBH Book Club Volume VI. Gibson’s publications are held in numerous collections, including the National Art Library at the V&A Museum, Pier 24, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Foam Photography Museum as well as private collections worldwide.