LONDON.- Hales announced representation of Scottish painter Carole Gibbons. Her work is currently featured in Tate Britain’s critically acclaimed exhibition Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990. In 2023 her solo show at Celine, Glasgow was listed in Frieze Magazine’s top ten shows of the year. In March 2024, Gibbons will have a solo show at White Columns, New York. The artists’ first solo show with Hales will open in May 2024 at the gallery’s London location.

Gibbons (b. 1935 Glasgow, Scotland) has over six decades cultivated a distinctive painting practice rich with resonant colour and symbolism in a striking painterly language. She received early career success between the 1960s-1980s and was the first living woman to have a solo exhibition at Glasgow’s Third Eye Centre in 1975. However, it has not been until recently that Gibbons has gained more widespread recognition. She has long been championed by artists Lucy Stein, Andrew Cranston, poet JF Hendry, writer Alasdair Gray, and Susannah Thompson notes, ‘Gibbons may be the most famous artist you’ve never met.’ (2023).

Gibbons’ paintings and drawings encompass many subjects including folkloric landscapes, existential portraits, ever-present cats and charged still lifes, which are worked on over months and years. From an early age Gibbons has been fascinated by mythology, drawing upon themes throughout her practice. Later, domestic scenes and interiors still weave in the epic through the staging of meaningful objects, sculptures, and referential books. Art historical references and classic painterly themes are combined with Gibbons lived experience in deeply personal paintings.