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Elliot Gibbons is currently a Doctoral Candidate at UCL & Tate funded by the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. His doctoral project examines art and activism produced in relation to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Britain from 1987 to 1997. He previously held the position of Assistant Curator, Public Programmes at Tate. Before this, he was awarded Arts Council England funding to independently curate ‘Southend’s Twilight Worlds’. He holds an MA in History of Art from UCL, where he wrote a thesis on the work of the late artist Hamad Butt that was awarded the Oxford Art Journal Prize for Best Dissertation. He also holds a BA (hons) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts (UAL). His writing has been published by thisistomorrow, AQNB, Object and Texte Zur Kunst.

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elliot.gibbons@icloud.com

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Selected Exhibitions, Displays and Public Programmes

UK AIDS Memorial Quilt, Tate Modern, 12-16 June 2025.

Ocular Choreography: Liz Magic Laser, Tate Modern and online, 2023 – 2024.

Southend’s Twilight Worlds, Royals Shopping Centre, 16 July to 8 October 2022. 

Selected Publications

Exhibition Catalogues

‘“Fairy Grotto Bust Up”: On Derek Jarman’s Time’ in Southend’s Twilight Worlds, ed. Elliot Gibbons, (Essex: Old Waterworks, 2022), pp.26–31.

Reviews

‘“Purple Halos”: Elliot Gibbons on “Vivono: Arte e affetti, HIV-AIDS in Italia, 1982–1996” at Centro Pecci, Prato, Texte Zur Kunst, 35, December 2025, pp.194 – 198.

‘“The Rosy Glow of Non-violence”: Elliot Gibbons on Hamad Butt at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin’, Texte Zur Kunst, online, 12 March 2025.

‘It’s Like Arguing with a Brick Wall: Elliot Gibbons on Martin Wong at Camden Arts Centre, London’, Texte Zur Kunst, online, 11 August 2023.

‘Lumen, Sutapa Biswas, Autograph, London, 4 March 2022–4 June 2022’ in Object, 24, 2023, 72–73, [Peer Reviewed].

Edited Books

Southend’s Twilight Worlds, ed. Elliot Gibbons, (Essex: Old Waterworks, 2022)

Selected Conference Presentations & Lectures

‘Dis-ease: Art, Illness and Abstraction’, co-convenor with Zaena Sheehan of a four-speaker session, Association for Art History Conference 2026, University of Cambridge, 10 April 2026.

‘Ridgeway Bennett’s Abject Abstraction’, Art, Visual Culture and HIV/AIDS: Local, Regional and Transnational Perspectives, University of York, Yorkshire, 12 –13 June 2025.

‘Did we find Danny? Art, Archives and Community’, My Evidence: Creating LGBTQI+ Art and Archives, IHLIA LGBT Heritage, Amsterdam, 3 October 2024.

© Elliot Gibbons 2026

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