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Jill Gibbon

(she, her)
Reader in Drawing, Leeds Beckett University

Jill Gibbon is an artist and activist with research interests in drawing, and art as an interdisciplinary method. She currently uses performance and drawing to research the secretive world of the international arms trade. She has exhibited in the UK and US, and has drawings in the permanent collections of the Imperial War Museum, and the Peace Museum.

She has a B.A in Illustration from Leeds Polytechnic, an M.A in Visual Arts from Keele University, and a PhD from Wimbledon School of Art. She teaches Illustration at Leeds Beckett University, specialising in drawing. She is an early career research fellow at the ISRF, and a founder member of Art Not Arms.

https://www.isrf.org/fellows-projects/picturing-security-in-an-age-of-climate-breakdown/

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer in Graphic Arts, Leeds Beckett University

Education

  • 2008 
    Wimbledon School of Art / University of Surrey, PhD