Dr Jill Gibbon, Reader

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.

Dr Jill Gibbon, Reader

Ask Me About

  1. Art
  2. Marketing

Selected Outputs

  • Gibbon J (2022) Mute Communication: Drawing the Military-Industrial Complex. In: Bamford K; Grebowicz M ed. Lyotard and Critical Practice. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 167-176.

  • 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, pp. 47-59.

  • Gibbon J (2020) This is Not a Bomb - matériel culture and the arms trade. In: Maltby S; O'Loughlin B; Parry K; Roselle L ed. Spaces of War, War of Spaces. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 187-204.

  • Gibbon J (2015) Hiding in the Light, drawings of arms fairs. In: Sylvester C ed. Masquerades of War. London: Routledge, pp. 190-196.

  • Gibbon J (2015) Hiding in the Light, drawings of the arms trade. In: Sylvester C ed. Masquerades of War. London: Routledge, pp. 190-196.

  • Gibbon J (2010) Dilemmas of Drawing War. In: Experiencing War. Routledge, pp. 103-117.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Gibbon J (2017) Drawing the Panopticon; representation, resistance and surveillance. In: Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, 6 April 2017 - 8 April 2017, Loughborough.

  • Gibbon J (2015) Constructing History - Reportage Drawing and Factography. Valenciennes, France.

  • Gibbon J (2011) The War Artist as Trickster. In: Trickster Strategies in the Arts, 26 October 2011 - 27 October 2011, University of Wroclaw, Poland.

  • Gibbon J (2011) Witnessing War from New Perspectives. In: Experiencing War, 14 April 2011 - 15 April 2011, University of Gothenburg.

  • Gibbon J (2010) Radical Reportage. In: Drawing Research Network Annual Conference, 14 September 2010, University of Brighton.

  • Gibbon J (2010) The Art of Infiltration. In: War and Peace, 30 April 2010 - 3 May 2010, Prague.

  • Gibbon J (2010) Drawing the Arms Trade. In: Theory Versus Policy, International Studies Association Annual Convention, 17 February 2010 - 20 February 2010, New Orleans.

  • Gibbon J (2023) Drawing Repression in Corporate Capitalism. Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, 3 (1), pp. 54-63.

    https://doi.org/10.48619/bbds.v3i1.622

  • Gibbon J; Sylvester C (2017) Thinking Like An Artist-Researcher About War. Millennium: Journal of international studies, 45 (2), pp. 249-257.

    https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829816684261

  • 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.

  • Gibbon J (2019) Drawing, performance, and war.

  • Gibbon J (2017) Undercover drawings of the arms trade.

  • Gibbon J; Southern J (2017) Drawing and the Politics of Seeing.

  • Gibbon J (2014) Artist talk.

  • Gibbon J (2014) Artist talk.

  • Gibbon J (2014) Art and War, Truth, Propaganda, Protest.

  • Gibbon J (2014) Artist talk.

  • Gibbon J (2014) The Art of the Arms Deal.

  • Gibbon J (2018) The Etiquette of the Arms Trade. Nottingham: Beam Editions.