Emma Gibbons is a Devon-based British artist whose practice sits at the intersection of Pop Art, craft, and sharp social observation. Described as "the glittering queen of Pop Art," she works with resin, pill capsules, lollipops, glitter, and hand-made miniature components to build works of considerable visual exuberance that carry, beneath the surface brightness, a consistent and intelligent commentary on consumerism, excess, desire, and the culture of aspiration.
Her Cornish upbringing — in a family she describes as having a history of pirates and smugglers — gave her an early affinity for the unconventional and the contraband, a sensibility that runs through her entire practice. Her personal journey from party life to sobriety informs the work directly: the pill capsules and blister packs of her pharmaceutical series are not decorative choices but autobiographical ones, the language of excess and its management deployed with the authority of someone who has lived inside both.
Her collectors include Zoe Ball, Dawn French, Danny Dyer, Gordon Ramsay, and Margot Robbie — who purchased her celebrated Bad Barbie piece in 2022. Her gallery commission for Creed Gallery, Rather Be At Ascot, is one of the most site-specific works in the collection — made for this gallery, about this place, available exclusively here.
Her Keep Calm and Carry On, Rather Be In Ibiza, No Risk No Story, and Melting Happiness works bring pharmaceutical visual language into direct contact with the phrases and aspirations of contemporary British life, finding in the combination something that is simultaneously funny, unsettling, and precisely observed.
Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.
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