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Contemporary Art and the Death of Contemplation
Contemporary art has been hit hard by our inability to focus, meditate or even take five minutes alone with a painting. With my painting Death of Contemplation, the title comes from my lament for a time before incessant distraction. When you could fall into a deep, thoughtful meditation and slowly mull over an idea until […]
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Contemporary artist takes a look at loss
Contemporary artist is lost in the wilderness… Contemporary artist Stephen Gibb has offered a mysterious painting for an uncertain future society. Entitled “Pictorial Puzzles for a Post-human Palaeontologist“ the painter playfully acknowledges that there is “a man behind the curtain” and that the viewer isn’t about to fall down the rabbit hole, but is well […]
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2019
2019 Paintings 2019 Return to main gallery 2015 paintings Stephen Gibb – Artist Statement (Or, at least a feeble attempt to excuse my behaviour to those present with good taste) My artwork weaves an eclectic tapestry of cultural and social influences. At one moment it may make a single-punch-line comment on pop culture while the […]
Life’s a Trip
Cover art for Trippie Redd’s Life’s A Trip album, August, 2018. Life’s A Trip The initial design, grew and blossomed from this point of beginning (below)…eventually leading to the final artwork above. Combining symbolic characters in a colourful explosion of activity Stephen Gibb followed Trippie’s suggestions of making the cover something so visually dynamic that […]
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2018
2018 Paintings 2018 Return to main gallery 2015 paintings Stephen Gibb – Artist Statement (Or, at least a feeble attempt to excuse my behaviour to those present with good taste) My artwork weaves an eclectic tapestry of cultural and social influences. At one moment it may make a single-punch-line comment on pop culture while the […]
Canadian Artist Stephen Gibb – Laughing out loud
Laughing all the way to the grave
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Canadian cuisine
Some fun paintings by Canadian Artist Stephen Gibb, celebrating Canada's 150th birthday
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Canadian Art
Canadian art has an identity crisis. It is much more than the Group of Seven, wildlife and wilderness painting.
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2017
2017 Paintings 2017 Return to main gallery 2015 paintings Stephen Gibb – Artist Statement (Or, at least a feeble attempt to excuse my behaviour to those present with good taste) My artwork weaves an eclectic tapestry of cultural and social influences. At one moment it may make a single-punch-line comment on pop culture while the […]
Crazy art, surrealism or metarealism?