Details
| First Name | Pippa |
| Last Name | Gatty |
| Username | pippagatty |
Statement
| Statement | Rooted in the language and history of painting, I am motivated by the idea of the fourth dimension (as in Time), and the discourse between that and my environment, (the here and now). The conversation this creates is beyond the symbolic and I try to represent this ambiguity within my work by creating a register of symbols and layers of meaning.My paintings are generally dark and small in scale, and this intimacy invites the viewer into my unsettling world with its ‘Nature’ resonances. These microcosms document my experience of my environment, my sense of wonder and foreboding and grief, and reflect a nostalgia for a time of ecological innocence and yet the reality of the situation.A human or animal presence is often suggested but seldom depicted, although a consciousness is always present and a primordial feature of things.At its outset each painting poses a series of open-ended questions. The outcome is always unknown. My process engages with a discourse between my heritage and environment, an exploration of time and space.I paint on the edge of figuration. it is emergent, and in the process of becoming or revealing itself. I build up the surface with glazes and often scour or scape areas of the picture plane back to reveal its foundation. I have been evolving a process and creating a body of work, which I hope addresses and reflects elements of the romantic tradition and a contemporary unease. I am interested in creating an archive of these images. I live and work in the Inner Hebrides.
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Biography
| Biography |
EXHIBITIONS 2020 Jan. SAS and VAS. Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh. 2019 November Discerning Eye. Mall Galleries, London 2019 May/June ‘Palimpest’ Society of Scottish Artists, An Lanntair, Stornaway ,2019 May SOLO ‘Against the fall of night’ Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh 2019 March-June ‘Made in Britain’ National Museum Gdansk, Poland 2019 Feb Contemporary British Painting Prize Menier Gallery London SE1 2018/19 Dec-Feb Contemporary British Painting Prize 2018, Hudderfield Art Gallery 2018 Aug – Sept Beep Painting Prize, Swansea College of Art. 2018 July ‘The Drawing Room’, talk and practical drawing session for adults. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh 2018 March-April ‘L’ora Blu’ – with Luca de Angelis and Alessandro Scarabello, text by Francesca D’aria, curated by Vera Portatadino at Yellow, Varese, Italy 2018 Jan-March SSA VAS Open Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2017 Oct- Jan ‘T Card’ CBP group show, Marylebone Crypt, London NW1 2017 August ‘A Table of Elements’ Greystone Industries, Wickham Market, Suffolk curated by Graham Crowley 2017 June – Dec ‘Contemporary Masters from Britain’, Touring – Yantal, Artall, Nanjing, China 2017 Jan ‘Painting and History” CAA Shanghai 2016 Aug-Sept ‘Paramender’ Portico Library Manchester with Stan Sandig 2016 June-Aug Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016 March SOLO– Herrick Gallery, Mayfair, London W1 2016 February ‘Spectrum‘ Herrick Gallery Mayfair, London W1 2015 September SOLO presentation, Man and Eve projects, Manchester Contemporary. 2015 March ‘The Green Room’ with Charlie Franklin, An Tobar, Isle of Mull 2014 October ‘All Things New’ Man & Eve project London SE11 2014 Sept – Oct SOLO “Orange Time” Galerie um Kunsthof, Halberstadt MK Biennale 2013 December ‘Kartina Zembla’, An Tobar , Isle of Mull 2013 September ‘Derwent Drawing Prize, Mall Galleries 2013 July ‘The Zeitgist Summer Exhibition’ London SE14 2013 April ‘Drawing Room Biennial’, Drawing Room London 2013 March ‘Palomar’ with Dylan Shipton and Kate Brigden Bloc Projects Sheffield 2013 Jan ‘This Years Model’ Studio 1:1 London E2 2012 Oct – Dec ‘Graphite’. GV Art, London Curated by Robert Devcic 2012 Sept – Dec ‘Brittle Crazie Glasse, Islington Mill, Salford. Curated by Lucy Newman-Cleeve 2012-2013 ‘Jerwood Drawing Prize’, Jerwood Space, London SE1. 2012 September ‘Threadneedle Prize’. Mall Gallery London W1 2012 June ‘Palomar’ Surface Gallery Nottingham 2012 May ‘Crossing the Line” X Marks Bokship Cambridge Heath Rd, London E 2012 March–Sept ‘Parallels of Latitude’ UBM. SE1 Curated by Drawing Room London 2011 Nov ‘Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary’ Mall Galleries London 2011 May ‘Creekside Open’ APT Gallery London 2011 April ‘Paper View’. Brussels. Making Do: ‘Dialogues from out of this world’. 2011 Feb P.I.TV SUPERMARKET Art Fair, Stockholm Sweden 2010 Oct Nov ‘Dig Down in Time’. Man and Eve Project Space. SE11. Curated by Jacqui Macintosh 2010 May Red Mansion Prize, A Foundation. London 2010 March Propeller Island 3, The Gossipy Guide, Tenderpixel Gallery, WC2 2010 Feb ‘Measure and Purpose’ Surface Gallery, Nottingham. NG1 2009 Nov Artsway Open 09, Sway Hampshire SO41 selected by Chris Orr 2009 July ‘Throw’em out, they break my heart’. SE8, Deptford London. Curated by Jonathan Holding 2009 July ‘These Here United States’. Master Piper. Kennington. London SE1 Curated by Medeia Cohan Petrolino 2009 May ‘Gagarin Night 2009”. X Ray at the Perseverance. London E2 2009 May ‘Power of a Discord’, The Bear, Camberwell SE5 2009 March ‘Code 8’ Girls on Film, Fabric, Bradford. 2009 Jan ‘Propeller Island’. Brompton Windows Project, South Kensington London SW7 2008 Dec Salon 08. Matt Roberts at Vinespace E2 2008 Nov Marmite Painting Competition. Studio 1:1 2008 Sept MA show Chelsea College of Art and Design 2008 May Brenda Landon Pye portrait competition 2008 May ‘Condensation’ Decima Gallery E3 2NR 2007 Dec ‘The Magnificent Twelve’ The Subway Gallery W2 2007 Nov Future Map 07. The Arts Gallery W1 2007 Oct SOLO ‘Chill Avenue’ The Black Wall Subway Gallery. W2 2007 Feb SOLO ‘Valley Argentina’ Subway Gallery London W2 2007 Nov ‘Pastoral Sliders’ Brompton Windows Project. SW7 . PRIZES, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES 2018 Shortlisted Contemporary British Painting Prize 2018 Shortlisted Beep Painting Prize, Swansea 2013 Shortlisted Derwent Drawing prize selected by Yvonne Crossley, Stephen Farthing RA, Fisun Guner 2012 Shortlisted the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012. Selected by Stephen Coppel, Kate Macfarlane, Lisa Milroy 2011 Short listed for the Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary. Selected by Tom Coats, Anita Klein James Lloyd, Nicolas Usherwood. 2010 Shortlisted Creekside Open, selected by Dexter Dalwood, 2009 WINNER of the Red Mansion Art Prize. Selected by Nicolette Kwok, Katie Paterson, Iwona Blaswick, Red Mansion Residency Beijing 2009 Shortlisted Artway Open. Selected by Amanda Farr, Peter Bonnell, Benjamin Beker, Christopher Orr 2008 Shortlisted Salon 08 Selected by Andrea Tarsia, Kate Jones, Cath Ferguson 2008 Short listed for the Clifford Chance Sculpture Prize. 2008 Shortlisted Marmite Painting Competition selected by Marcus Cope, Stephanie Moran 2008 Shortlisted Brenda Landon Pye Portrait Competition EDUCATION MA Fine Art Chelsea College of Art and Design. 2008 BA Fine Art Painting Chelsea School of Art 1990 COLLECTIONS Robert Deveraux Collection, University of the Art Collection Priseman Seabrook Collection Other private collections |