Australia, b. unknown

Billy Gibney has exhibited in New York, Norwich, London, Madrid, Milan, Melbourne, Sydney, Amsterdam, and Auckland, and he approaches existing objects and scenes not simply as subjects of representation but as “mediators” that condense narrative and memory over time. These mediators expand across a wide range of sources, including the artist’s personal photographs, film stills, online auction images, and privately owned objects and souvenirs. To foreground this mediating role, Gibney treats the surface of his paintings with materials such as glass powder and wax, which metaphorically evoke stones or fossils bearing traces of time. Through this material process, his images are endowed with a sense of historicity, durability, and permanence, and his paintings emerge as crystallized condensations of the forms and scenes through which he perceives the world—visual records that directly articulate the artist’s worldview.