Jill Gibbon

Jill Gibbon is a British artist, best known for sketching people in the arms trade while working undercover at arms fairs. She is a senior lecturer in graphic arts at Leeds Beckett University.

Gibbon earned a bachelor's degree from Leeds Polytechnic (now Leeds Beckett University), a master's from Keele University, and a PhD from Wimbledon School of Art.[1]

Gibbon visits arms fairs posing as a global security expert, and sketches people active in the arms trade.[2][3][4]

In 2018 Gibbon helped to lead a high profile campaign[5] that successfully pressured arms manufacturer BAE Systems to withdraw its sponsorship of the Great Exhibition of the North.[6]

Gibbon is Reader in Graphic Arts, School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University.[7]

Publications

  • The Etiquette of the Arms Trade – Ten Years of Drawing by Jill Gibbon (2018)[8]

References

  1. ^ "Dr. Jill Gibbon - ISRF Early Career Fellow 2017-18". Independent Social Research Foundation. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  2. ^ Pidd, Helen (11 April 2018). "The art of war: the artist who sketches under cover at arms fairs". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Projects: Jill Gibbon: War Mart". Reportager. Research Group and Programme at the School of Creative Arts, University of the West of England. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  4. ^ Vijaykumar, Dimple (27 July 2014). "The woman turning arms fairs into art". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  5. ^ Shaw, Anny; Harris, Gareth (1 March 2018). "Artists pull out of Great Exhibition of the North over arms dealer sponsorship". The Art Newspaper. Archived from the original on 2 December 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  6. ^ "BAE quits as Great Exhibition of the North sponsor". BBC. 7 March 2018. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  7. ^ "Dr Jill Gibbon - Leeds Beckett University". www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  8. ^ "The Etiquette of the Arms Trade – Ten Years of Drawing by Jill Gibbon". Jill Gibbon. Retrieved 11 April 2018.

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