George Gibson is an artist, educator, and technician based in the UK with a practice that explores zinemaking, lo-fi print processes, and book arts as a means to documenting personal fixations and the communities they create.
Collaboration is central to their work, often connecting with artists, writers and researchers who are interested in the same niche, or producing work within an open workshop setting. Through these collaborations, George has explored themes of cultural memory, fandom, and unofficial histories — from cryptozoology and queer retelling of Godzilla, to the history of bootleg Pokémon and the psychological impact of early 2000s TV phenomena LOST.
For commissions, workshops or general enquiries, contact: georgegracegibson@gmail.com,
2020 - 2022
2015 - 2018
2014 - 2015
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2015
School of the Damned
BA Fine Art : Manchester School of Art
Foundation Arts Diploma : Sunderland University
selected exhibitions
TBA : Site Gallery : Sheffield
Ten Years, Ten Artists : HOME : Manchester
STASHED : The Whitaker Museum & Gallery, Rossendale
The Fourth Wall : HOME : Manchester
Pushing The Envelope : TNMOC : Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes
Ulises: Assembly : Tufts University Art Gallery : Boston
Scholars of the Stones : Victoria Hall, Glossop
Thump (쿵) : BMoCA, Busan, Korea
Sisyphus Is Happy : Altogether Otherwise, Manchester
Haçienda 2 : Antwerp Mansion, Manchester
ABC Stampa : Dzialdov, Berlin
New Things : The Grundy, Blackpool
Archives at Play : Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
ABC OFFICE : Filet, London
A to Zine : QUEERCIRCLE, London
Place Stamp Here : CDLA, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
ABC OFFICE : Dzialdov, Berlin
Blood From a Stone : Gloam Gallery, Sheffield
Ride Your Pony : Abingdon Studios, Blackpool
Warning Bells : Turf Projects, Croyden
REMOTE WORK : The Grundy, Blackpool
Soft Bodies, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Beyond Diagnosis There Is a Full Moon, Castlefield Gallery
COLLABORATE : Jerwood, London
Millenialism, Paradise Works, Manchester
Guiltee Pleasures : Ohh Kay Gal, York
Multipack : Bunker Gallery, Manchester
New Contemporaries : South London Gallery
New Contemporaries: LJMU, Liverpool
Ceci est Mon Corps : Eglise des Trinitaires, Metz
Fiction(s): Le Consortium, Dijon
Press Go & Wait : Newbridge Project, Newcastle
35mm by Burt Burton,
taken at Bergen Art Book Fair, Norway, 2022
education
+ collections
Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt
Trash Biblio Library, Edinburgh
Library of Artistic Print on Demand, Bavaria
The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
BALTIC Archive, Gateshead
GRRL Zine Library, Southend
Notts Zine Library, Nottingham
Phalam, Kyoto
Salford Zine Library, Salford
MMU Special Collections, Manchester
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curation
projects
2023
2019
2017
ABC Stampa : Dzialdov, Berlin
Fanspeak : Castelfield Gallery, Manchester
EMO TIONAL : Basement, Manchester
Where's Your Coat : Caustic Coastal, Salford
Gibson & Collins Services, 2020+
ABC [Artists' Books Cooperative], 2023+
Shy Bairns, 2016 - 2023
selected workshops
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
A Zine That Breaks The Fourth Wall : HOME
Manchester Artist Teacher Collective : GRIT Studios
Rabbit Tales Book Making : Bury Art Museum
Complete Book Artist : Hot Bed Press
At HOME with Jerwood : HOME
Zine making & Wish Granting : Castlefield Gallery
LAU Zine Making Society : Leeds Arts University
Mail Art :The Coast is Queer : Abingdon Studios
Turkish map fold : Turf Projects, Croyden
Make Your Own Portals : Independents Biennial
S.P.A.M Spreads : BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Digital Zine Making : Rewrite, Reimagine, Replay
SB Rewrite The Future : SITE Gallery
SB Develop Your Creative Practice : Tate Britain
My Head Is Disconnected : HOMEmcr
SB Respond To New Contemporaries : SLG
1523 Manifesto : Nottingham Contemporary
Festival of the Not : Star and Shadow, Newcastle
Liverpool Biennial Zine Making : The Bluecoat
Physical & Digital Collections : The Tetley
Middlesbrough Art Weekender : Dundas Market
books, zines, etc
book fairs
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
(full catalogue on Edcat)
FAKE FANS
Live at The Troxy (w/ Los Campesinos)
Archives at Play (w/ Castlefield Gallery)
Wrestling Arena (w/ James McColl)
'Untitled Ghostwatch Fanzine' (w/ Chris Paul Daniels)
Contrasting Views on Artificial Intelligence
Hide and Seek
A Brief History of Goblin Mode
Souvenir (w/ ABC)
I think I crashed your plane
Other Kin
Lonely Hearts (w/ Lonely Boy)
Things We Liked This Month (w/ Shy Bairns)
Appointment at the End of the World (w/ Shy Bairns)
Are You A Witch? (w/ Jessica Bewell)
Lonely Christmas (w/ Lonely Boy)
Fill The Void (w/ Shy Bairns)
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
Bergen Art Book Fair, Norway
Offprint, London
BOUND, Manchester
Cairo Art Book Fair, Egypt
Inventory Art Book Fair, London
Offprint, London
BOUND, Manchester
Vienna Art Book Fair, Austria
Miss Read, Berlin, Germany
ASP, London
Artists' Bookmarket, Edinburgh
BOUND, Manchester
Bergen Art Book Fair, Norway
dvd extras
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
Spectacle exhibition identity, The Whitakker, Rosendale
ABC CHOP, Acre Studios, Artists in Residence, Berlin
Feel My Desire print + digital visuals, FACT, Liverpool
How Neurodiversity and Fandom Fuel a Collaborative Practice in Art and Publishing, artist talk, GUC, Cairo, Egypt
Après coup / Nachträglichkeit
Grrrl Zine Library Artist In Residence
FACE-OFF exhibition identity, Saan1, Manchester
a-n Time Space Money Bursary recipient
Peer to Peer: UK/HK Artist in Residence
30/30
20:20 Print Exchange annual participant
Manchester Contemporary with Castlefield Gallery
UKYA Artist Talk at Nottingham Playhouse
+ a-n Artist Council member (-2022)
Grasmere YHA Artist In Residence
UKNA Creative Leadership Participant
Castlefield Gallery MSoA Graduate Mentee Award
Artist Led Hot 100
UKYA, Blackpool Artist in Residence