‘See Me, Hear Me, Touch Me. These are hyperbolically female shapes, upright, acrobatic, and curvy. They are playful and provocative, with a compulsiveness perhaps linked to the artist’s biography. We see a small woman paying homage to that continuum that reaches back to the proto-feminism of Nikki de St Phalle. Gibbard’s monumental figuration-with-attitude is achieved through the assemblage of thin-walled, wheel-thrown vessels (emphatically conventional) to which soft violence is applied while wet and giving. To this naked figure Gibbard applies sizzling, flat colour, as if to the skin. Her brushstrokes are made with her hand, arm, shoulder and her whole body. The result is playful, but not playful.’ – Andre Hess
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