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INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
Neil Gibson
Toronto / Canada
NG: So far it’s just one painting. This is the logical next step in the Cube/Sphere/triangle pieces. Hopefully it will be ready for my first gig this
summer.
PM: Do you have any other projects in the
pipeline?
NG: Always!
PM: What psychedelic trance festivals can
we expect to find you at in summer of 2014?
NG: June 13 in Belgium, June 20th at Psycrowdelica in Germany, Freaks in Love Festival in Turkey,
One Love Festival July 10th in Swiss, MetsaFestival July 24th in Finland, YAGA Gathering in Lithuania, then Free Earth Greece. Then, who knows!!
PM: Last year Transcend Trading hosted
an exhibition for you in Amsterdam. Any
chance a follow up exhibition will occur this
year?
NG: First I need to create a new body of work
before any other exhibitions will be planned!
Sphere Photography
Born 1981 in Toronto, Canada, raised both in Toronto and Collingwood Ontario, Neil graduated
in 2005 from the Ontario College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
His 2005 series of paintings the “SubDimensional Matrix” was well received and gained international recognition. This provided him with the
opportunity to show his work abroad. Since then
he has been on a never ending tour expanding
this series, as well as producing other various
projects.
His artwork has been featured at many events
and festivals internationally. He has shown his
works in Canada, Toronto and Montreal, New
York City, Washington DC, London, Belgium,
France, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
Finland, Moscow, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, Macedonia, Greece, Peru, Costa Rica, South
Africa and Japan.
This year Neil will be putting his creative energy
into designing the main stage for Free Earth Festival in Greece from 14-18 August.
Interview with the Artist himself:
PM: Your 2005 series of paintings, the “SubDimensional Matrix” was well received and
gained international recognition. What is
the story behind this and what was your inspiration/ motivation to create this 3D “Gibson” universe.
NG: This idea was conceived in the early 2000’s
and many small sketches and paintings were
made before the creation of this piece. The idea
is to diagram the unseen energies and fractals
going on all around us continuously. I organised
it into a grid matrix in 2 point perspective because I always used to draw these perspective
pictures in school and it always had a nice effect.
Within the grid, columes expand with windows,
each with a different view and layers inside going deeper and deeper, but also reflecting the
bigger picture.
PM: What techniques do you use to create
such 3D effects?
NG: Mostly I just use perspective techniques.
But also layering effects and transparency help
to build up 3D effects.
PM: You have already had quite a busy 2014
and the European Summer Season is yet
to begin. Rumour has it that you are working on a new “Triangle” series? Can you tell
us something more about this or when you
will unveil it?
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