Viva Gibb (1945–2017) was a Melbourne-based artist who studied painting and printmaking at the National Gallery Art School in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her childhood interest in photography led her to incorporate old photographs into her silk-screen prints at art school and the medium soon became the focus of her artistic practice. She began exhibiting her photographs in 1976 when she held her first solo exhibition at George Paton Gallery at the University of Melbourne, followed by a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1979. Gibb’s commitment to social documentary photography saw her create a unique body of work that is both personal and political.

(2020)