About igloo

Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli (photo: Timothy Copsey)

Based in London, Gibson & Martelli work together and often as igloo with international artists, including John McCormick and Adam Nash. Their practice is multifaceted ranging through installation, intervention, virtualisation, film and performance drawing on the multiple layers of reality and unreality. Much of their work is in recreating environments and systems where coding joins hands with choreographies of the body.

Pioneering works such as Winterspace and Summerbranch have received critical acclaim at festivals worldwide. Gibson has been nominated for a Paul Hamlyn Visual Arts Award and Martelli is a Wingate Scholarship awardee for Viking Shoppers. Windowsninetyeight their first major work won a BAFTA nomination in 2002. More recently they received a Royal Opera House commission for their dance theatre piece Goodbye Venus and a NESTA Award for SwanQuake, an exploration into novel uses for 3D computer gaming engines in multi-user network environments using motion captured performance.

Gibson & Martelli are regularly invited to make presentations, undertake residencies and give master classes at international conferences and symposia, as well as teaching postgraduate students in leading universities. Their ongoing research into sensory environments for children has resulted in permanent installations in schools and in hospitals across the UK.

igloo have taken their projects around the world from Reykjavik to Rotterdam, Monte Carlo to Chicago, Lisbon to Los Angeles and many places in between. igloo have exhibited in Japan, Greece, at DEAF and the V2Labs Rotterdam, Transmediale Berlin, MILIA France, ISEA California, Centre de Arte Moderne Portugal & the 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy.

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