Tom Gibson is a Glasgow-based artist working across photography, text, print and installation. His practice examines power, authority and institutional structures, with a particular focus on how these forces shape access, labour and participation within cultural spaces. Drawing on both visual and conceptual strategies, his work often engages with systems that are usually encountered passively, bringing them into view for closer scrutiny.
Gibson’s practice frequently involves acts of translation and recontextulisation, not only through language but through form, material and process. By shifting documents, images, and institutional frameworks into new settings, he explores how meaning and authority are produced, reinforced or destabilised. These transformations allow implicit hierarchies and assumptions to become visible, questioning what is taken for granted within administrative and cultural systems.
Across past and ongoing work, Gibson uses conceptual methods to analyse how power is embedded in everyday structures and procedures. By foregrounding the mechanics of authority — whether legal, organisational or cultural — his work invites viewers to reflect on how such systems are constructed, maintained and experienced, and how individuals navigate their positions within them.
