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Jibby is a popular and respected member of the international art and design scene, She has held many exhibitions of new art and hosted regular performance clubs since the early nineties when she teamed up with artist Jonathan Goslan to showcase talented artists. The first shows were based in her apartment in Paddington and featured graduates from the major art colleges in London.
Prior to becoming something of a patron of contemporary art, Jibby worked for Vivienne Westwood in her west end shops where her lively character fused perfectly with the eclectic regular customers, Lady Romily MacAlpine among them.
The continuing love affair with fashion and art started back in the sixties when Jibby was a young girl at her first job, a vendeuse assistant at the couture house of Victor Stiebel. With her dream of becomming a ballet dancer unfulfilled after being accepted to study by Dame Ninette de Valoise and finding herself unable to fund her studies Jibby took a secretarial job in a law firm. This proved very favourable when Dudley Moore's agent Donald Langdon came in and declared Jibby a potentially successful model. Within a few weeks she had worked on various assignments in some crazy films including ' The Bliss of Mrs Blossom' where her bra blew up so much she took off. Jibby can be seen in the first ever Andrex commercial with the famous Labrador puppy.
Throughout the seventies and eighties Jibby devoted herself to raising a family, sometimes incorporating her young son in her advertising jobs. She
took a strong and instinctive interest in design and decoration, successfully refurbishing many houses for her own family. Some commercial design work was undertaked in mayfair and Jibby decided to make it more formal with a design course through Oxford University.
While Jibby may seem to many to have been exceptionally gifted and lucky it is important to know that her background was very humble indeed and her
success and independence has been won for herself through much hard work and dedication.
It is within the last ten years that she has really flowered, however, and this has truly been a time for herself to expand and take on new challenges. being a symbol of taste and a colourful individual has led to a great deal of media interest in her life and she has appeared in numerous television programme, newspaper articles and magazines. She has unwittingly become something of an icon for modern men and women. This was epitomised in a programme about her life commissioned for channel Four Television in 1996, entitled 'Jibby Beane - The Art Scene Queen'. Since then she has appeared in numerous TV documentaries with Melinda Messenger, Julian Clary, Micheal Barrymore, Ruby Wax and Joan Bakewell.
In 1998 Jibby set up a web site at www.Jibbybeane.com where people can view examples of artists she represents, look at her fashion interests and read her extensive biography. In the last year she has taken part in an ad campaign for 'Target', been the subject of major profiles by The Standard and Elle Deco, and proved something of a natural public speaker when invited to Trinity College Cambridge to debate Feminism.
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