what I do
biography
Working with found or recycled materials, my practice centres around my life long passion for the natural world.
Using hand-dug clay, fallen branches or discarded industrial materials like plastics, I explore themes around balance between the natural and man-made world.
It is important to me to minimise my own consumption and so I reject the creation of ‘more stuff’. In 'Record Temperatures' 2020, I used plastic LPs to create a barely balancing tower with record labels progressing from green to red representing global temperatures rising.
In my recent practice, works are either biodegradable and purposefully left to the elements or deconstructed and reused for new pieces. A photographic record sits at the heart of my otherwise ephemeral practice.
Born in the UK in 1965, Pip spent her childhood in East Africa, Yorkshire and eventually Australia when she emigrated with her parents in 1974. As a young adult she backpacked around Europe and Asia until settling back in the UK in 1988.
A career in film and television took her from studio animation to natural history and a life travelling the world making wildlife documentaries for the BBC.
In 2015, seeking a quieter, simpler way of life, Pip and her family moved to Dominica in the West Indies. In 2017, Category 5 Hurricane Maria devastated their island home. They returned to friends and family in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and reset.
For Pip that meant pursuing a dream of attending art college and in 2022 she completed her FdA at Stroud College of Art. She's currently undertaking a Masters in Sustainability in Fine Art Practice at the University of Gloucestershire.