artist/ Alastair Gibson

Grande Bretagne, France

Alastair was born in 1962 near Johannesburg, South Africa, completing his education at King
Edward Vll school followed by two years’ compulsory national service in the South African army.
Exposed to and inspired by marine life
during annual vacations to the family
cottage on the Natal South Coast led
Alastair to take sculpture classes. This early
formal experience would influence how he
saw and interpreted the detail and form of
‘interesting fish’.
With an interest in motor racing influenced
by his father and an education in
balance-engineering, Alastair arrived in
Europe with an ambition to work in the
motor sport industry. This resulted in a
career of 22 years, 14 of which were in
Formula One, four as lead mechanic for
the Benetton F1 Team and 10 as race team
chief mechanic for the BAR and Honda
Grand Prix Teams.
Drawing similarities between modern
motorsport engineering and his love for
the natural world, Alastair uses his acquired
engineering skills and experience to
show his passion for sculpture through
his signature medium of carbon fibre.
His anatomically correct pieces are
detailed from used F1 parts
purchased from the current
Grand Prix teams.
Alastair’s work has been exhibited
worldwide and is being appreciated by a
growing number of collectors and investors.
Now in his sixteenth year as a full time artist,
Alastair is being recognised as the
forerunner in high-end engineered
sculpture and with his skilled team is
undertaking a variety of projects, private
commissions and installations at his
bespoke studio, ‘Studio 45’, near
Oxford, England