Pippa Blake

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Undercurrents feature

Undercurrents at Candida Stevens Gallery

In Undercurrents, painter Pippa Blake presents a new body of work exploring the calming serenity and hidden dangers of creeks, streams, and rivers. Born from the centrality of voyaging by sea, land, and air to the artist’s life and career, this collection of paintings looks at waterways as routes of travel for humans, non-humans, and elemental forces alike.

Many of the works in Undercurrents quietly touch on the sinister side of nature, creating a subtle tension between the beautiful and the unknown encapsulated in…

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Posted on September 20, 2022

Category: Pippa Blake

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me

A triptych of large-scale paintings by artist Pippa Blake will go on display at Pallant House Gallery this spring following her time as Artist in Residence at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2015.

The works respond to the powerful play ‘Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me’ by Irish playwright Frank McGuinness, performed
at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre in the autumn.

The focus of Pippa Blake’s second residency at the theatre, ‘Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me’ was inspired by the experiences of those taken hostage in Lebanon in the 1980s…

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Posted on May 3, 2016

Category: Events