Pippa Blake was born in Portsmouth, England in 1954, and studied Fine Art (Painting) at Camberwell College of Art, London from 1972 to 1976. During that time she exhibited with the New Contemporaries and in the Stowells Trophy, R.A. In 2005 she graduated from the Visual Arts Programme, West Dean College, Sussex with a Postgraduate Diploma (Distinction).

Blake has travelled the world extensively but now lives and works on the coast near Portsmouth, Hampshire. She has frequently exhibited in the UK and New Zealand with both solo and group shows. In March 2010 Blake had a solo show in Auckland in collaboration with Louis Vuitton and returned to the UK to an art residency and solo exhibition at West Dean College during May/June 2010. Blake is predominantly a painter but also makes exploratory work using Perspex, acetate and inkjet. She works mostly with digital images from film stills and Internet news sites – current ideas stem from images of the aftermath of war and terrorism.

She is represented in New Zealand by Artis Gallery in Auckland and shows work on a regular basis in Sussex and London.

education

1972-1976 Camberwell School of Art: BA Hons Fine Art Painting (First Class).
2004-2005 West Dean College: Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Art (Distinction)

forthcoming exhibitions

2012 Artis Gallery, Auckland New Zealand

solo exhibitions

2010 Inside/Out: The work of Pippa Blake. West Dean College
2010 Pippa Blake: Journey. Exhibition supported by Louis Vuitton, Auckland, New Zealand
2008 Voyage. (with photographer Kos) Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Sussex, UK
2007 The Wyer Gallery, Battersea, London, UK
2006 Works on Water. (with sculptor William Pye) Sussex Barn Gallery, West Sussex, UK
2004 Havant Arts Centre, Hampshire, UK
2002 Lane Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2002 Havant Arts Centre, Hampshire, UK
2001 Lane Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1997 Deborah Bates Gallery, London, UK
1995 Herringbroom Studio, Sussex, UK

group exhibitions

2011 Highgate Contemporary, London
2011 Artis, Auckland. NZ
2011 Conversations: Artel: Havant Arts Centre
2010 Stripped Bare: Havant Arts Centre
2009 Chichester Festival
2009 Omega Printmakers, Portsmouth
2008 Havant Museum
2008 Artists from the South: Chichester
2008 Chichester Cathedral 900 Years: Artel
2007 The Ocean Project: ARTEL/NOCS: Bargate
Monument Gallery, Southampton
2006 Resurgence; Langstone Gate:
Havant Arts Centre
2005 The Flux Project: West Sussex (with Tim Kent)
2004 Artist’s Harbour Historic Portsmouth Dockyard
2003 ‘Odyssey’ Havant Arts Centre
Beatrice Royal ‘Australasian Exhibition’
‘Works on Paper’ Sydney Arts Fair, Australia
2002 Face-It’, Otter Gallery, West Sussex
You Are Here’ Phoenix Gallery Brighton
Director’s Choice, Havant Arts Centre
2001 Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art, Hampshire
‘Coast’, Artsway, Hampshire
2000 Portsmouth Open
Mill Studio Exhibition, Sussex
1999 L’Artichaut Small Paintings Show, Chichester
1998 St Richard’s Hospital ‘Paintings from Poems’, Chichester
1997 Arundel Festival, Sussex
1996 Sussex Open, Brighton
1994 Chichester ‘City of Culture’ Exhibition
1993 Sussex Open, Brighton
1977 New Contemporaries, London
1976 Stowells Trophy, Royal Academy
1975 Portsmouth Open