Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Jill Gibbon
Reader
Jill Gibbon is an artist researching the aesthetics of defence and militarisation.
Gibbon uses drawing to research the defence industry, with a particular focus on marketing, hospitality and etiquette.
Current Teaching
Gibbon teaches on the BA in Illustration, and supervises PhDs in art practice and theory.
Research Interests
Gibbon has published widely, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Imperial War Museum and Peace Museum. She has been interviewed about her research by the BBC, Guardian, and NPR.
Ask Me About
- Art
- Marketing
Selected Outputs
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Gibbon J (2022) Mute Communication: Drawing the Military-Industrial Complex. In: Bamford K; Grebowicz M ed. Lyotard and Critical Practice. London: Bloomsbury,
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Gibbon J (2022) A Total Performance: Invisibility, Respectability and Resistance in Corporate Capitalism. In: Hartle S; White D ed. Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World. London: Bloomsbury,
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Gibbon J (2020) This is Not a Bomb, matériel culture and the arms trade. In: Spaces of War, War of Spaces. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 187-204.
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Gibbon J (2015) Hiding in the Light, drawings of arms fairs. In: Sylvester C ed. Masquerades of War. London: Routledge, pp. 190-196.
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Gibbon J (2015) Hiding in the Light, drawings of the arms trade. In: Sylvester C ed. Masquerades of War. London: Routledge, pp. 190-196.
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Gibbon J (2010) Dilemmas of Drawing War. In: Experiencing War. Routledge, pp. 103-117.
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Gibbon J (2018) The Etiquette of the Arms Trade. In: Relating Pasts & Presents; history of science and social science, 26 September 2018 - 26 March 2019, Max Planck Institute, Berlin.
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Gibbon J; Tom F (2018) This is Not a Bomb; matériel culture and the arms trade. In: Spaces of War, War of Spaces, 22 May 2018 - 23 May 2018, Florence.
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Gibbon J (2017) Drawing the Panopticon; representation, resistance and surveillance. In: Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, 6 April 2017 - 8 April 2017, Loughborough.
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Gibbon J (2015) Constructing History - Reportage Drawing and Factography. Valenciennes, France.
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Gibbon J (2011) The War Artist as Trickster. In: Trickster Strategies in the Arts, 26 October 2011 - 27 October 2011, University of Wroclaw, Poland.
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Gibbon J (2011) Witnessing War from New Perspectives. In: Experiencing War, 14 April 2011 - 15 April 2011, University of Gothenburg.
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Gibbon J (2010) Radical Reportage. In: Drawing Research Network Annual Conference, 14 September 2010, University of Brighton.
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Gibbon J (2010) The Art of Infiltration. In: War and Peace, 30 April 2010 - 3 May 2010, Prague.
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Gibbon J (2010) Drawing the Arms Trade. In: Theory Versus Policy, International Studies Association Annual Convention, 17 February 2010 - 20 February 2010, New Orleans.
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Art the Arms Fair Bomb Boutique Bomb Boutique, 50 Brook Street W1K 5DR. 11 September 2021 - 17 September 2021.
More information: https://artthearmsfair.com/
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Gibbon J Up in Arms nGKb, Berlin. 27 September 2019 - 15 December 2019.
More information: https://upinarms.ngbk.de/
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Gibbon J Art the Arms Fair Maverick project space, Peckham, London.. 3 September 2019 - 13 September 2019.
More information: https://artthearmsfair.com/
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Cercel C Krieg. Macht. Sinn Ruhr Museum Essen. 1 November 2018 - 10 June 2019.
More information: https://www.ruhrmuseum.de/nc/veranstaltungen/fuehrungen/detail/?tx_rlmpeventdb_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=770&cHash=f3187366995e9b94fd67c868d05365c5
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Gibbon J The Etiquette of the Arms Trade, ten years drawing in arms fairs A Piece of Peace, Bradford. 28 June 2018 - 17 May 2019.
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Gibbon J The Etiquette of the Arms Trade; ten years drawing in arms fairs Bradford Peace Museum. 13 April 2018 - 28 June 2018.
More information: https://peacemuseum.org.uk/the-etiquette-of-the-arms-trade-ten-years-drawing-in-arms-fairs/
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Gibbon J And This Too Platform Gallery, Belfast. 3 November 2017 - 30 November 2017.
More information: http://platformartsbelfast.com/wp-content/uploads/andthistoo.jpg
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Campbell S; Jamison B; Magill C; Revels M; Turner D And This Too Platform Arts, Belfast. 2 November 2017 - 25 November 2017.
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Gibbon J Transcriptor: Illustration and Documentary the Material James Hockney Gallery, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey. 19 October 2017 - 19 December 2017.
More information: http://www.uca.ac.uk/galleries/gallery-events/-transcriptor/
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Lawlor V; Rolf V; Kugler O; Sabnani N Transcriptor: Illustration, Documentary and the Material James Hockey Gallery, Farnham. 19 October 2017 - 10 January 2018.
More information: http://www.uca.ac.uk/galleries/gallery-events/-transcriptor/
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Gibbon J The Etiquette of the Arms Trade, Research Station Leeds Beckett University, Leeds. 1 October 2017 - 31 December 2017.
More information: http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/larc/exhibitions/etiquette-of-the-arms-trade-jill-gibbon/
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Gibbon J Seen Up Close, and from a Distance The Birley Art Project Space, Preston. 8 March 2016 - 31 March 2016.
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Gibbon J Space, Birley Artist Studios, Preston Birley Artist Studios, Preston. 1 March 2016.
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Gibbon J Shock and Awe Royal West Academy, Bristol. 19 July 2014 - 17 September 2014.
More information: http://issuu.com/bristolculturaldevelopmentpartnersh/docs/back_to_the_front
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Gibbon J Indig-nation Centraltrak, University of Texas, Dallas. 26 October 2010 - 5 October 2010.
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Gibbon J War and the Body Blackhall Studios, London. 12 June 2010 - 19 June 2010.
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Gibbon J Jerwood Drawing Prize Travelling Exhibition. 1 October 2004 - 1 October 2005.
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Gibbon J; Sylvester C (2017) Thinking Like An Artist-Researcher About War. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 45 (2), pp. 249-257.
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Maltby S; Pratt S; Gibbon J (2012) The War and the Body Exhibition, Showing, Sharing, Shaping. War and Culture Studies, 5 (1), pp. 105-125.
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Gibbon J (2019) Drawing, performance, and war.
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Gibbon J (2017) Undercover drawings of the arms trade.
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Gibbon J; Southern J (2017) Drawing and the Politics of Seeing.
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Gibbon J (2014) Artist talk.
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Gibbon J (2014) Artist talk.
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Gibbon J (2014) Art and War, Truth, Propaganda, Protest.
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Gibbon J (2014) Artist talk.
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Gibbon J (2014) The Art of the Arms Deal.
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Gibbon J (2018) The Etiquette of the Arms Trade. Nottingham: Beam Editions.