This gritty addition to the London diptych blends collage with pen-and-ink to capture the multiple layers of energy, grandeur, glamour and squalor overlaying this iconic London park. The pale form of an elephant looms in the background, as if waiting patiently for – for what? Liberation from a zoo enclosure? Clean air to breathe? Meanwhile,…
Tag: collage
Red Flag (2018, mixed media)
This challenging piece explores some of the more complex themes that underlie the sparkle and celebration overtly acknowledged around the Christmas season. The title refers to the Communist anthem ‘The Red Flag’, which is sung to the same tune as a traditional German song ‘O Tannenbaum’, originally a song about steadfastness but adopted as a…
London I & II (2018, mixed media)
London I: Soho Square London II: Primrose Hill This mixed media diptych represents a departure from more lyrical and myth-inspired recent work. The unsettling red, black and pink palette suggests a city a long way from peaceful, while the scribbled-over flower motifs and lonely dabs of green struggling to be seen in Soho Square speak…
[VISITING ARTIST] Homo Homini Lupus (2018, mixed media)
Visiting artist Dorothy Locke joins Pipsinella and Libby Williams in stylistic and thematic dialogue here around ideas of nature, wildness, predation and the food chain. The tiger stands in for Homo sapiens as apex predator in this piece, which mixes mundane references to mealtimes and the body beautiful with darker intimations of the raw violence…
Landscapes 5: Tado Taisha Chochin Matsuri (2018, mixed media)
This mixed media addition to the ‘Landscapes’ series continues the international and more urban themes emerging with Container Port, depicting one of Japan’s great Lantern Festivals. Dynamic lines suggest the movement of crowds toward lighted lanterns in the top part of the piece while multiple red circles against the white lower section imply a multiplication…
[VISITING ARTIST] Appropriation (Frida Kahlo): 2018, collage
The piece references traditions of creative re-use and re-appropriation, asking: where do we draw the line between the imitation and development inherent in the notion of ‘artistic tradition’ and when does this spill over into parody, plagiarism or appropriation? Here Pipsinella references the cats of the popular ‘I Can Haz Cheezburger’ internet ‘meme’, repurposed image…
[VISITING ARTIST] Bobo’s Holiday (2018, mixed media)
Visiting artist ‘Pipsinella’ continues the ‘Trousseau’ residency with BOBOS HOLIDAY, a multi-media collage that interrogates our conflicted cultures around leisure time and travel in late capitalism.
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