Pip Dickens

Pip Dickens is a painter concerned with visual perception, in particular examining and challenging theories and methodologies of light and movement within the second dimension. Concepts of illusion and double meaning are recurring themes, including the notion that we may receive two contrasting visual or intellectual responses from a single stimulant. She is interested in playing with ideas of extremes and visual confusion – a kind of ”terrible beauty.” In her paintings, Dickens employs innovative methods to create unusual surfaces, layers, and textures. Depth and surface dissimilarities are particularly important, and her work draws on many sources. This includes natural phenomena to the darker elements of phantasmagoria, from opacity to transparency, from rhythms within music to pattern structures in nature, from cinematic devices to literary sources.

Pip Dickens dispels a singular stylistic approach in lieu of innovating and testing new methodologies. In this way, her response to subject matter is simple and direct.

Dickens completed her Masters at The Slade School of Fine Art (UCL) in 2000. Since then, she has been the recipient of a number of prizes and awards. including the NatWest Art Prize in 1997 and Jeremy Cubitt Prize (Slade School of Fine Art). She won the Edna Lumb Art Travel Prize and was nominated for the Jerwood Contemporary Painters Prize in 2009, Celeste Painting Prize in 2009, and John Moores Painting Prize in 2014.

In 2010–2011, she was Leverhulme Trust Award Artist in Residence, undertaking research in Kyoto, Japan. Over the past few years, Dickens has had numerous solo exhibitions in the UK and in USA. Her work is held in various UK museums and international private collections.

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