If you’re in central Brixton pop into Clover’s Bar & Restaurant on Atlantic Road to see the work of local artist and designer, Jo Gibbs. Jo specialises in creating art from found materials and “waste” products. She is a recycler and upcycler par excellence often breathing new life into discarded furniture. Here you can meet more characters from the “critters” series – whimsical heads lovingly made from used food containers, avocado skins and the occasional twig.
Also included in the show are examples of Jo’s newer works – paintings on found canvases using egg tempera – the painting medium first used by Renaissance artists in Italy some 500 years ago. These are very different works from the lighthearted critters – rather sombre and meditative abstract seascapes which illuminate in a different way Jo’s focus on the impact of human behaviour on the environment.
You can also see some of Jo’s trademark mirrors – delicately laced reflective surfaces which change the mundane into something special.
Jo’s work is thoughtful, amusing, diverse and diverting. Go and see it if you can.
The show runs until the end of April in Clover’s Bar & Restaurant, 58 Atlantic Rd, London SW9 8PY.
