Gibson's films are known for their experimental and emotive nature. Resolutely feminist in form and content they explore the personal and the political and draw on cult figures from experimental literature and poetry - from Kathy Acker to Gertrude Stein. Collapsing fiction and documentary, and liquefying both, they range from experimental autobiography to nocturnal thriller and cast friends and influences as their characters and co creators. Collaboration and credit are at their heart.
Gibson is twice winner of The Tiger Award for Best Short Film Rotterdam International Film Festival, (2009 and 2013). She was the winner of the 17th Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel in 2015. She has been twice shortlisted for the The Jarman Award for Artist's film (2013 and 2019) and in 2013 she was one of four artists shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
Recent solo exhibitions include Ordet, Milano (2023) Camden Arts Centre, London, Bergen Kunsthall, Mercer Union, Toronto (2019) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, (2018). Recent festivals include, Directors Fortnight, Cannes, New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Courtisane Film Festival, Punto De Vista International Documentary Film Festival and many more. A complete retrospective of Gibson’s films was screened at Fondazione Prada, in December 2023.
Gibson is a founding member of the monthly cinema club The Machine that Kills Bad People at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, alongside Ben Rivers, Maria Palacios Cruz and Erika Balsom and in 2021 founded Nuova Orfeo a collectively run, roving initiative for experimental film and performance in Palermo, Sicily.
Gibson is currently in post production with her first feature, produced by BBC films, Somesuch and Norte: a love story, set during the course of one night, inspired by Kathy Acker's Don Quixote and Alice Notley's The Descent of Alette
In 2024 she was resident Art Explora - Cité internationale des arts, Paris. Her films are distributed by LUX, London.