Stephen Giblett
Artist Profile
Biography
Over his career as an artist Giblett has mastered a seamless style of painting devoid of recognisable brushstrokes. In removing the painter’s mark he creates a work that is devoid of the painter, permitting his work to speak from its own life source. As if back-lit, his paintings glow from within, giving pulsating light to the amorphous forms of his abstract landscapes. Giblett’s optimistic re-imagining of the climate crisis, rises with buoyant life from the canvas – not as an imposed idea of the artist, but as something self-evident to the topic and the landscape itself.
Stephen Giblett is a Melbourne based artist who has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, including a major solo exhibition at the Gippsland Art Gallery in 2012. In 2013 he was a finalist in the 2013 Gold Coast Art Prize, and in 2010 was a finalist in the NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize.
Over his career as an artist Giblett has mastered a seamless style of painting devoid of recognisable brushstrokes. In removing the painter’s mark he creates a work that is devoid of the painter, permitting his work to speak from its own life source. As if back-lit, his paintings glow from within, giving pulsating light to the amorphous forms of his abstract landscapes. Giblett’s optimistic re-imagining of the climate crisis, rises with buoyant life from the canvas – not as an imposed idea of the artist, but as something self-evident to the topic and the landscape itself.
Stephen Giblett is a Melbourne based artist who has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, including a major solo exhibition at the Gippsland Art Gallery in 2012. In 2013 he was a finalist in the 2013 Gold Coast Art Prize, and in 2010 was a finalist in the NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Echoland, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2018 New Works, Hunger Rozario, Melbourne
2017 LS2, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2016 Other Paintings, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2015 New Paintings, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2013 Low Fidelity, Anna Pappas Gallery, Prahran, VIC
2012 Plume, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Summer New, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Chapter 3, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Summer New, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Summer New, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Chapter 3, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Summer New, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Summer New, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Fort Delta, Melbourne
2017 Spring 1883, Fort Delta, Sydney
2016 Spring 1883, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2016 Westspace Annual Fundraiser, Westspace, Melbourne
2016 Here’s to Future Days, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2015 Macarthur Park, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2015 Westspace Annual Fundraiser, Westspace, Melbourne
2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Art Athina, Anna Pappas Gallery, Athens, Greece
2014 Westspace Annual Fundraiser, Westspace, Melbourne
2014 Free Range, Project 14, Anna Pappas Gallery, Prahran, VIC
2013 Westspace 20th Anniversary Fundraiser, Westspace, Melbourne
2013 Art Athina, Anna Pappas Gallery, Athens, Greece
2013 Jamais Vu, Project 13, Anna Pappas Gallery, Prahran, VIC
2013 The Sixth, Westspace, Melbourne
2011 Hello Dolly, GAFFA, Sydney
2010 POP, Michael Koro Gallery, West Melbourne
2009 Surface, Michael Koro Gallery, West Melbourne
2006 We Must Support Ourselves, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Naked Fashion, Viewing Space ARI, Melbourne
2006 All City, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2005 Three Blind Mice, Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Confine, Brunswick Arts, Brunswick, VIC
2002 Hatch, Graduate Exhibition, Monash University, Caulfield, VIC
2001 Drawing, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield, VIC
2000 Show Off, Treasury Place, Melbourne
AWARDS/GRANTS/PRIZES
2013 Gold Coast Art Prize, Finalist, Gold Coast Art Gallery, QLD
2012 Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Finalist, Coffs Harbour Regional
Gallery, NSW
2011 Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Finalist, Coffs Harbour Regional
Gallery, NSW
2010 John Leslie Art Prize, Highly Commended, Gippsland Art Gallery,
Sale, VIC
2010 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, Finalist, Sydney
2010 Salon Des Refuses (Archibald), Portrait of Tim Mcmonagle
2010. S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney – Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah,
NSW
2009 Metro Art Award, Finalist, Metro Gallery, Armadale, VIC
2006 Ivanhoe Art Show, Ivanhoe, VIC
