Rosie Gibbens (b.1993, London) makes performances, videos, sculptures and photographs that feature her body. Using absurd humour, she explores the slippery overlaps between identity, labour and consumer desire. She often makes sculptures that combine household gadgets with sewn body parts. These are brought to life through low-tech chain reactions in the performances/ films. Rosie playfully blends bodies with objects to unpack and question the prospective future body as it becomes increasingly ‘optimised’ by technological augmentation. The mindset behind her work is of a nonsensical product demonstration combined with a perverse children's TV show.
Education:
Ba Performance Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins, 2015
Ma Contemporary Art Practice: Performance, 2018
Solo exhibitions/ performances:
Parabiosis | The Bomb Factory | London | 2024
The New Me | Shoreditch Arts Club with Daata | London | 2023
Skin of my Teeth | Midlands Arts Centre | Fierce Festival | Birminghman | 2022
Soft Girls | Zabludowicz Collection | London | 2021
Hen Night | Salon Acme | Mexico City | 2020
Underage Red | Black Box | Farnham | 2020
Carrot and Stick | Somers Gallery | London | 2019
Auto Erotic Assimilation | Toynbee studios with Steakhouse Live | London | 2018
Auto Erotic Assimilation | Z-arts with Emergency Festival | Manchester | 2018
Group exhibitions:
2024
Art Fictions Anthology | The Handbag Factory ASC | London
Live Art for Børnr | Arken museum with Live Art Denmark | Denmark
Absurd Visions | Bow Arts Shaftesbury Avenue Takeover | London
Material Thinking | The Lightbox | Woking | UK
Taste | Wonzimer | LA | USA
Liquify | Ohsh projects | London
2023
The Amber Room | Matt’s Gallery | London
Are you working now | National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts | Taiwan
Eye Body | TJ Boulting | London
Body Poetics | curated by Marcelle Joseph and Becca Pelly Fry | Giant | Bournemouth | UK
After the performance | curated by Paul Carey Kent | Tension | London
Bodies, Gluttony and me | Pictorum | London
Tangle Teaser | Sarabande Foundation | London
Saucisson | Shtager & Shch | London
Peckham 24 photo festival | London
Fleshed Out | The Bomb Factory | London
2022
The Ingram Prize | Unit 1 Gallery Workshop | London
Girl meets Girl | Curated by Paul Carey Kent | Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium | Norway
The New Me | Expo fair with Daata | Chicago
Touch me baby | Bad Art | The Bomb Factory | London
Sarabande Group Show | Sarabande | London
TRAFFIC (curation) | LUVA gallery | 28th July
The best of the BF artist film festival | The London Open | Whitechapel Gallery | London
Sunny Prestatyn | ArcadeCampfa | Cardiff
2021
The Artist Is Online | König Galerie | Berlin
Ex-is | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art | Seoul | South Korea
Balls | OOF Gallery | London
Pigeon Park | Manor Place | London (25 Sept - 3 Oct)
The Factory | Thorpe Stavri | London (9 Oct - 22 Oct)
Recreational Grounds | Thames-side Studios | London
Hot Air | Bad Art presents | London
The Holy Grail | Ohshprojects | London
2020
Ridiculous | Elephant West | London
Moving Pictures | Latrobe Regional Gallery | Australia
Antisocial Isolation | Saatchi Gallery | London
She Chews Art II | Croydon Arts Store | London
Visions at the Nunnery | Bow Arts | London
2019
Through the Backdoor | Bloomberg New Contemporaries | South London Gallery | London
First Thursday Performance Evening | Bow Arts | London
8&8 Screening | Lake West | South Korea
No Nation Performance Festival Screening | Bogota | Columbia and Chicago | USA
Frieze Day: Temporary Realities | Somers Gallery | London
Absinthe no.3 | Collective Ending | Spit and Sawdust | London
Recreational Grounds V | DATEAGLE ART | London
Fivehundredthousand | Deptford Cinema | London
YIKES (A Celebration of Awkward Performance) | Lovelite | Berlin | Germany
How are you Babe? | Blank100 | London
Brick + Mortar Projects curated performance event | Strangelove Time-based Media Festival | Folkestone
BF Film Festival VIII | Serf | Leeds | UK
2018
Visions at the Nunnery | Tina Keane Programme | Bow Arts | London
Learn Where the Meat Comes From | out_sight | Seoul | South Korea
TBCTV | Somerset House | London
Unperforming | Curated by Louise Ashcroft | Artsadmin | London
nodoCCS Video Festival | Cerquone Projects | Caracas | Venezuela
Staged | The Bomb Factory | London
REVOLVE Performance Festival | The Orangerie, Orbyhus Castle | Uppsala, Sweden London
Royal College of Art Degree Show | London
Low Entertainment | Vogue Fabrics | London
Diffracta | Total Refreshment Centre | London
Bomb Factory Film Festival | Art Week Exeter | Exeter | UK
5 Minutes of Your Time | TestBed | London
False Efficiency | Toynbee Studios | London
Artists Film Festival VI | The Bomb Factory Art Foundation | London
The Cruising Garden | Vogue Fabrics | London
Queer and Feminist Porn | Royal College of Art | London
Deep Trash Romance | Cuntemporary | Bethnal Green Workingmen’s Club | London
GRAIN | The Factory | Folkestone
2017
F O L L O W | Lychee One | London
REVOLVE Performance Festival | Uppsala Konst Museum |Uppsala, Sweden
I Come In The End, The Best Is Over | Dyson Gallery | London
I’ll Be More Social Tomorrow | Somers Gallery | London
Standing Block | Lincoln projects | London
(Ten)peramental | Toynbee Studios | London
Archiving Fever no.2 | Square Gallery | London
Archiving Fever no.1 | Hundred Years Gallery | London
Intimaterial | Royal College of Art | London
Five minutes of your time | Testbed | London
MicroActs | Hotel Elephant | London
2016
Handover | The Factory | Folkestone
Drunken Nights | St George Tavern | London
This was the Future | Barbican | London
Mourning Milk | Freshly Scratched | Battersea Arts Centre | London
Residencies and Awards:
2024
Hogchester Arts residency
Good Eye Projects residency
2023
Shortlisted for the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award
2022
Winner of the Ingram Prize, ‘Founders Choice’ award
Sarabande Residency Funded by the Alexander McQueen Foundation