Brian Gibson is a visual artist who creates conceptual works using a diverse range of materials including framed prints, 3D works, installations, and collaborations. He develops his ideas through photographic processes and conceptual thought. Some of his creations involve reconstructing the identities of old family photos into archetypal characters to give them a more universal and timeless identity. Potential uses for machine-readable codes include providing information about public performances, fragments of poems on trees and stones, or clues on a nature trail. He is interested in how new technologies can connect people to the past in a meaningful way.

1. Brian Gibson “I am an artist who thrives on ideas”

2. Brian Gibson is a visual artist who thrives on ideas. His work consists of photographic processes and conceptual thought, working in a diverse range of materials. His creations include framed prints, 3D work, interventions, projections, installations and collaborations.

3. Archetypes The starting point for this work began as a way of making links with the past and redefining that past. Working with the inheritance of old family photographs, and using digital software, I developed a method of reconstructing the identities of these people who are in some way connected to me (be it directly or indirectly). In re-presenting these individuals as archetypal characters they shift from their closed historical context to embody more universal characteristics and timeless identity.

4. The Gardener

5. The Daughter

6. The Father

7. The Brother

8. The Rider

9. The Child

10. “I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.” Joseph Beuys

11. Codex

20. Semacodes Semacode is a machine-readable two-dimensional code displaying information vertically and horizontally in a square format and increasingly found on billing items and advertising. Barcode readers are an application available to android and smart phone users , enabling data or information to be gathered and exchanged freely by the public, opening of a wealth of possibilities for creative and social interaction. Potential uses for such code tags are extensive: codes/tags on posters, for concerts and public performances that can be read to provide links directly to web sites. Tags across a city can be scanned and provide a body of text that is a fragment of a poem or story. Tags on trees and stones could provide clues and information on a nature trail . Tags can be presented in a multitude of ways: printed as flyers , tee shirts or badges, placed on trees and stones , incorporating traditional practices such as cross stitch and knitting and also as land art.

23. Land Art I am interested in the marriage between new and old technologies. How new developments can connect us to the past in a meaningful and fruitful way.

24. Avebury

25. Avebury

26. Glastonbury Tor

27. Bath

28. Contact briangibson908@hotmail.com Tel 01225 335747