Jill Gibbon


Jill Gibbon is a British artist, best known for sketching people in the arms trade while working undercover at arms fairs. She is a senior lecturer in graphic arts at Leeds Beckett University.
Gibbon earned a bachelor's degree from Leeds Polytechnic, a master's from Keele University, and a PhD from Wimbledon School of Art.
Gibbon visits arms fairs posing as a global security expert, and sketches people active in the arms trade.
In 2018 Gibbon helped to lead a high profile campaign that successfully pressured arms manufacturer BAE Systems to withdraw its sponsorship of the Great Exhibition of the North.

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