Louise Giblin MRSS (born 1963) is a British body-cast sculptor. She is noted in particular for her "Body-Casting Olympians" project.

Training

Giblin trained under

Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; ''Another Pla ...

and

Peter Randall-Page Peter Randall-Page RA (born 1954) is a British artist and sculptor, known for his stone sculpture work, inspired by geometric patterns from nature. In his words "geometry is the theme on which nature plays her infinite variations, fundamental m ...

Brighton Polytechnic The University of Brighton is a public university based on four campuses in Brighton and Eastbourne on the south coast of England. Its roots can be traced back to 1858 when the Brighton School of Art was opened in the Royal Pavilion. It achiev ...

(1982–86) and at the

Chelsea College of Arts Chelsea College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London based in London, United Kingdom, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation. It offers further and higher educati ...

(1989–93). From 1990 to 1994 she was on the Secondary Education Advisory Group within the

Design Council The Design Council, formerly the Council of Industrial Design, is a United Kingdom charity incorporated by Royal Charter. Its stated mission is "to champion great design that improves lives and makes things better". It was instrumental in the prom ...

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. She was elected Associate of the

Royal British Society of Sculptors The Royal Society of Sculptors is a British charity established in 1905 which promotes excellence in the art and practice of sculpture. Its headquarters are a centre for contemporary sculpture on Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, London. It ...

in 2010 and was elected a full Member in 2014.

Awards

Giblin was selected as the visual artist to represent the UK at the G7 of Art, part of a larger G7 of Culture in Florence, Italy.

Olympians project

This project aimed to record the physiques of five British Olympians in 2011. Each subject body-cast also had a series of surface decorations pertinent to their lives. Part of the profits was donated to the Headfirst charity, which funds research into brain injuries. This project led Giblin to be called "one of the world's leading body cast sculptors". The body-casts weigh around 10 kg and must be worn for an hour whilst setting. The chosen subjects were: *

Kriss Akabusi Kezie Uchechukwu Duru Akabusi , MBE (born 28 November 1958), known as Kriss Akabusi, is a British former sprint and hurdling track and field athlete. His first international successes were with the British 4×400 metres relay team, winning a ...

Beth Tweddle Elizabeth Kimberly Tweddle (born 1 April 1985) is a retired British artistic gymnast. Renowned for her uneven bar and floor routines, she was the first female gymnast from Great Britain to win a medal at the European Championships, World Cham ...

*Dame

Kelly Holmes Dame Kelly Holmes (born 19 April 1970) is a retired British middle distance athlete. Holmes specialised in the 800 metres and 1,500 metres events and won gold medals for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set British ...

*Darren Leach *

Sally Gunnell Sally Jane Janet Gunnell (born 29 July 1966) is a British former track and field athlete, active between 1984 and 1997, who won the 1992 Olympic gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles. During a golden 24-month period between 1992 and 1994, Gunne ...

Living Legends project

This work was produced for exhibition at Gallery Different in London November 2014. The exhibition private view was attended by Michael Portillo, Heather Mills, Duncan Goodhew and Reuben Richards. *

Michael Portillo Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (; born 26 May 1953) is a British journalist, broadcaster and former politician. His broadcast series include railway documentaries such as ''Great British Railway Journeys'' and '' Great Continental Railway Journ ...

Head casting 2011 with a medieval Spanish town cast on the right cheek *Lord

Colin Moynihan Colin Berkeley Moynihan, 4th Baronet, 4th Baron Moynihan (born 13 September 1955) is a British Olympic silver medalist, businessman, Conservative politician, and sports administrator. Lord Moynihan served as chairman of the British O ...

Head casting 2012 *

Heather Mills Heather Anne Mills (born 12 January 1968) is an English former model, businesswoman and activist. Mills first came to public attention in 1993 when she was a model and was involved in a traffic collision with a police motorcycle in London. T ...

Body casting 2012 *

Duncan Goodhew Duncan Alexander Goodhew, (born 27 May 1957) is an English former competitive swimmer. After swimming competitively in America as a collegian at North Carolina State University, he was an Olympic swimmer for Great Britain and won Olympic gold a ...

Head casting 2014 (with water ripples) *Reuben Richards singer, three Head castings 2013 *

Daniel Whiston Daniel J Whiston (born 21 November 1976 in Blackpool) is an English ice skater. He appeared in ''Strictly Ice Dancing'' on BBC One and for all series of ITV show '' Dancing on Ice'' since its inception in 2006. He won the first series of ''Danc ...

, figure skater, star of

Dancing on Ice ''Dancing on Ice'' is a British television series presented by Phillip Schofield alongside Holly Willoughby from 2006 to 2011, who then returned in 2018, and Christine Bleakley from 2012 to 2014. The series features celebrities and their profe ...

Body casting 2014

War veterans project

This is an exercise in "historical memory": casting the hands and body parts of British Military personnel who have served in the many wars post World War One. The subjects include the artist's brother, Brigadier John McIntosh, who served in

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. The project is planned to be exhibited until November 2018, the centenary of the last day of World War One, having begun on the centenary of the start of the war.Aspect County (journal) Winter 2014, pp 32,33 *1941 WWII

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Flt Sgt (later Sqn Ldr) Cornelius Turner *1945–47

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Sgt Noel Patrick *1951–52

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Gunner Bill Park *1970–93

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Maj Robbie Robertson *1973–75

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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

OS Lawrence Kidman *1976–77

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LCpl (later WO1) Julian Allerhead *1982

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Operation Corporate The Falklands War ( es, link=no, Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories, British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland I ...

Mne (later Maj) David Sippitt *1985

Operation Grapple Operation Grapple was a set of four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the Paci ...

( UN)

Operation Resolute Operation Resolute is the Australian Defence Force's contribution to the Australian governments effort to protect Australia's borders through surveillance and response. Operation Resolute began on 17 July 2006 and consolidated a number of previo ...

(

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) Capt (later Maj) Michael Moran *1990–91 Gulf War

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Trooper Glenn Fitzpatrick *1993

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Operation Hanwood Lt Col (later Maj Gen) Michael von Bertele *1994

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Operation Gabriel Combat Medic SSgt Nigel Partington *1998

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Maj (later Brig) John McIntosh *1999

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Operation Agricola Capt (later Col) Patricia Gibson *2000

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Lt Col (later Brig) Kevin Beaton *2005

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Capt Hitmung Gurung *2007

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10 LCoH P Smith *2007 Iraq SAC (T) Jon-Allan Butterworth (Paralympian Cyclist London 2012, Rio 2017) *2011

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CT (later Flt Sgt) John Kirk (Para Snow Sports Skier)

Other exhibitions

*March 2011 RBA Mall Galleries, London *July 2011 Meta-Human, ROA Gallery, Pall Mall, London *July – September 2011 Art of Imagination, Pennsylvania Institute of Technology *Nov 2011 Edinburgh International Art Fair *February – March 2012 RBA Mall Galleries, London *March 2012 Glasgow Art Fair *June 2012 British Olympic Foundation Event, Frant (Lord Colin Moynihan's estate) *July 2012 Sculpture and Sport - A Celebration for 2012, The Octagon, Bath *March 2013 RBA Mall Galleries, London *March–July 2013 Beth Tweddle MBE sculpture at Museum of Liverpool *October 2013 Lord's Cricket Ground, London *March 2014 RBA Mall Galleries, London *September 2015 Aberdeen Art Fair *September 2015 Manchester Art Fair *November 2015 Edinburgh International Art Fair *April 2016 Art Revolution Taipei, Taiwan *August – September 2016 Edinburgh Festival, Urbane Art Gallery *September – October 2016 Cambridge Art Fair *November 2016 Edinburgh International Art Fair *January 2017 London Art Fair *April 2017 Art Revolution Taipei, Taiwan *April 2017 Taekwon-Do European Championships, Liverpool

References

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