Pip Dickens

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Artist statement

Concepts
Painter concerned with visual perception. Formal notions of light and movement within the second dimension. In addition, the concept of illusion and double meaning are particularly important. The notion that we may receive two contrasting visual experiences from a single visual stimulant. I am interested in playing with ideas of extremes and visual confusion - a kind of "terrible beauty".

Influences
Natural phenomenon, optical art, abstract, plasticity, transparency, film noir, literary and cinematic devices.

Career path

Painter (Masters from the Slade in 2000). I have exhibited nationally and abroad.  Recent projects include residencies, commissions, a touring exhibition, and working with architects on public art design commissions.

My practice is heavily based on literary research.  I have been a Part-Time Lecturer and Visiting Lecturer on various BA courses. Co-author of 'Shibusa - Extracting Beauty' examining Japanese aesthetics, synergy between music and painting and hand skills versus/high-tech approaches to art practice (published by University of Huddersfield Press (ISBN-13: 978-1-86218-101-4) published in March 2012.

Practice based in Yorkshire. 

Works in a variety of private, corporate and public collections.

Current and forthcoming events

  • June - August 2013: Pip Dickens: SCREEN, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby (more info)

Employment

  • 2008 Full time independent practitioner, Studio, Yorkshire, London
  • 2006 - June 2008. Part-time Lecturer - Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds
  • 2005 Visiting Lecturer, Lincoln School of Art & Design, Lincoln
  • 2005 Visiting Lecturer, Hull College of Art & Design, Hull
  • 2004 Visiting Lecturer, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds
  • 2004 Visiting Lecturer, Hull College of Art & Design, Hull
  • 1996 - 1998: Marketing Officer, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery & Studio Theatre, Leeds

Solo exhibitions

  • 2013 Pip Dickens -Screen, Rugby Art Gallery, Rugby, Warwickshire
  • 2013 PIP DICKENS, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
  • 2012 Toward the Light by Pip Dickens (touring exhibition), The Brindley Arts Centre, Cheshire
  • 2012 Patterns of Shadows by Pip Dickens, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
  • 2012 Pip Dickens - New Works, Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Leeds (more info)
  • 2012 Pip Dickens: New Work, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Leeds
  • 2011 Hajime - The Beginning (new works based on Japanese motifs), University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield
  • 2010 Toward the Light - Pip Dickens, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford. Touring Exhibition to 2013
  • 2008 Pip Dickens, Antler Homes, Leeds
  • 2008 Fabrications, Brahm Gallery, Leeds
  • 2001 Pip Dickens, Elgin Gallery (Cassian de Vere Cole), Elgin Crescent, Notting Hill, London, London
  • 2000 Pip Dickens, Elgin Gallery (Cassian de Vere Cole), Elgin Crescent, Notting Hill, London, London
  • 1998 Yorkshire Television Gallery, Leeds

Group exhibitions

  • 2013 Fulham Palace Art Fair, Fulham Palace, Bishop's Avenue, London, SW6 6EA
  • 2012 Brittle Crazie Glasse (curated by Man & Eve), Islington Mill, Salford, Manchester
  • 2011 Colour, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University West London, Uxbridge (more info)
  • 2011 Colour in Art, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University West London
  • 2010 Twelve Constellations, Vulpes Vulpes, London (more info)
  • 2009 Porno-Graph (art responding to graph paper systems), Brahm Gallery, Leeds
  • 2009 Art auction for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, Royal Institute of Great Britain, London
  • 2009 A Feast for the Eyes, Gallery II, University of Bradford, Bradford
  • 2009 A Room with a View, Gallery II, University of Bradford, Bradford
  • 2009 On Your Wall, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds
  • 2009 Mill - exhibition of works on paper, Monika Bobinska Gallery, London
  • 2007 Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, London (more info)
  • 2007 exhibition of new artists, Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, London (more info)
  • 2007 Showing with gallery, Alan Kluckow Fine Art, Berkshire (more info)
  • 2006 Nocturnal, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, Mayfair, London (more info)
  • 2004 In The Mix, Tangent Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
  • 2004 Edna, Retrospective of Past Winners: The Edna Lumb Art Prize, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds
  • 2004 Double Take, The Business Arts Council, San Francisco (Tangent Art), San Francisco, USA
  • 2003 Starting A Collection, Art First, Cork Street, London
  • 2003 Illusion, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
  • 2002 Ten, B Contemporary, London
  • 2002 Sharon Ben-Tal, Pip Dickens & Laurel Hunter, Tangent Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
  • 2002 Beneath the Surface II, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
  • 2002 Best of Art 2002, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
  • 2001 Beautiful & Unique, Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh
  • 2001 6th Debenhams Window Exhibition, Comme Ca Art, Manchester
  • 2001 Fresh Art Fair, Stand B3, Business Design Centre, Islington, London.
  • 2001 Bittersweet, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
  • 2000 Slade Postgraduate Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
  • 1999 Grrrr!, The Paper Bag Factory, Deptford, London
  • 1998 Edna Lumb Winners' Retrospective, Dean Clough, Halifax

Live/Performance

  • 2009 "Fabrications (after Pip Dickens)" . Sound Artist, Monty Adkins, will perform a Live Set of new compositions based on paintings 'Miss Havisham I' and 'Miss Havisham II'., Fylkingen Institute, Stockholm Sweden

Artist talks

  • 2012 Working with/in Japan - Seminar, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey
  • 2010 Inaugural Lecture on Practice & Residency, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield

Residencies

  • 2011 Commissioned Residency: Sir Michael Sadler Kashmir Shawl Collection, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds
  • 2010 Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield
  • 2009 - 2010 Artist in Residence, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford
  • 2009 Artist in Residence 2009, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford

Private commissions

  • 1991 Commemorative painting, Bramhope Football Club, Bramhope, Yorkshire

Corporate commissions

  • 2010 Femme Fatale drawings, The Arch Hotel, London
  • 2006 - 2008: Public Art commission - Design for new build in London, Corporate Client/Make Architects, London
  • 1996 External Site Mural, Gleeson Homes, Morecambe, Lancashire

Projects

  • 2011 Research in Japan for forthcoming book and exhibition: SHIBUSA - Extracting Beauty, University of Huddersfield/Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

Competitions, prizes and awards

  • 2012 Pip Dickens - Screen (Arts Council of England) Grants for the Arts, Rugby Art Gallery, Warwickshire
  • 2010 Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield
  • 2009 Pip Dickens - Toward the Light (Arts Council of England) Grants for the Arts, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Bradford
  • 2009 Shortlisted. Celeste Prize 2009 (Painting), Associazione Culturale L'Albero Celeste, Italy (2009 exhibition in Berlin)
  • 2008 Short-listed Blackpool Illuminations Design Competition 2008, Blackpool Council, Blackpool
  • 2001 AXIS Sponsored Stand Award, FRESH ART FAIR, London
  • 2000 Jeremy Cubitt Prize, Slade School of Fine Art, London
  • 1997 Shortlisted NatWest Art Prize, NatWest Bank, London
  • 1995 Edna Lumb Art Travel Award, Leeds Met University, Leeds

Publications

  • 2012 Shibusa - Extracting Beauty, edited by Monty Adkins and Pip Dickens, ISBN-13: 978-1-86218-101-4
  • 2012 Pip Dickens - New Works, with text by curator, Layla Bloom, ISBN -13-978-1-874331-47-6, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds
  • 2010 Toward the Light - Pip Dickens, ISBN 9780946657650 published by Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford
  • 2008 Contributor /seconds 9 : Vanishing Point: The Vicious and Virtuous Circle, (www.slashseconds.org)
  • 2002 Pip Dickens - Black Paintings (catalogue) published by artist

Other

  • 2012 Book & Music CD Launch plus Gallery Talk, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Leeds (more info)
  • 2002 Book cover design elements for 'A War of Individuals: Bloomsbury Attitudes To The Great War', Manchester University Press, Manchester
  • 2001 Book design elements for 'Trade Wind Hitchers', Seafarer Books, London

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