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Welcome to Chris Gibson Art.

Welcome to Chris Gibson Art.

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Chris Gibson is a British artist making artist's books and site-specific artworks. Chris' work often focuses on the small moments in our lives - those everyday experiences that shape our character.

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Artist's Books

The Unassuming Collection

Goethe's Divan for Divination

The Unassuming Collection

'The Unassuming Collection' is an immersive poem set in a library that unfolds gently. Each right-hand page contains a striking image taken from an existing book and each left-hand page features a line of text and a QR code. When the QR code is scanned (using any barcode reading app) the reader is taken to the complete book that the image was taken from. In effect 'The Unassuming Collection' is a library within a book, each line a departure point for a new experience.

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Book Becomes Book

Goethe's Divan for Divination

The Unassuming Collection

Image showing the e-book on a Kindle e-book reader.

'Book Becomes Book is a unique, digital artists’ book created specifically to be read on the Kindle. It is a fun and thoughtful read which takes the form of a poetic narrative that uses the features of the ebook reader to bring the story to life in an imaginative way.

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Goethe's Divan for Divination

Goethe's Divan for Divination

Mrs. Dalloway Variations 1 and 2

Image showing cover of 'Goethe's Divan for Divination'. The cover is purple with an image of Goethe.

‘Goethe’s Divan for Divination’ is a playful artwork which takes a selection of Goethe’s romantic and colourful poems and makes them suitable for divination.

The book work was originally made for exhibition as part of a group show in Düsseldorf which responded to the work of famous poets, investigating them from a different angle. Goethe’s poetry (and psychically the ‘Divan’) has often been inspired by the work of the Persian poet Hafez, a writer who’s books are frequently used for bibliomancy (divining the future).

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Mrs. Dalloway Variations 1 and 2

The Good Reader: Between the Lines

Mrs. Dalloway Variations 1 and 2

The two pamphlet sized editions of Mrs Dalloway Variations.

'Mrs Dalloway Variations' are  artists books which take an aspect of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway as a playful starting point.

The Good Reader: Between the Lines

The Good Reader: Between the Lines

The Good Reader: Between the Lines

Book cover of Between the Lines.

‘Between the Lines’ could be seen as an unconventional guide to Paris. The book is made up of brief texts on left-hand pages, where the artist describes personal encounters that took place in specific parts of the city. On right-hand pages are cool, clipped descriptions of the same location taken from travel guides. The real fragmented memories become a story; an unfolding tale of two people in a landscape. The real city lies somewhere between the two descriptions; hidden between the lines. 

The Library of Chance Encounter

The Good Reader: Between the Lines

The Good Reader: Between the Lines

Series of cards that make up The Library of Chance Encounter.

‘The Library of Chance Encounter’ is a pocket-sized artwork which tells the story of a single meeting between two people and the influence that shared experience has. The work is comprised of a series of cards which contain a text, an image or a barcode that can be read with a smartphone. The images and barcodes link to real books and collectively these create a virtual library.

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