Qualifications

2000 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London - Master of Fine Art: Painting
1996 Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting

Solo Exhibitions
Forthcoming:
2012 'Toward the Light - Pip Dickens', Cliffe Castle, Keighley, (Sep 2012 - Jan 2013). Touring Exhibition
2012 'Toward the Light - Pip Dickens', The Brindley Arts Centre, Cheshire, (31 Mar - 12 May 2012). Touring Exhibition
2012 'Pip Dickens - Patterns of Shadows', Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, London (6 Mar- 17 Apr 2012)
2012 'Pip Dickens - New Works', Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds (18 Jan - 14 Apr 2012)

2011'Hajime - The Beginning...', with Sound compositions by Monty Adkins, Creative Arts Building, University of Huddersfield
2010 'Towards The Light - Pip Dickens', Selected and new works, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire. Supported by the Arts Council of England Touring Exhibition various UK venues up to and including 2012.
2008 'Pip Dickens', Selected Work, Antler Homes, Leeds
2008 'Fabrications', Selected Work, Brass Gallery, Leeds
2001 'Pip Dickens',Cassian de Vere Cole Fine Art, London
2000 'Pip Dickens',Cassian de Vere Cole Fine Art, London
1998 'Pip Dickens',Yorkshire Television, Leeds

Two-person Exhibitions

2002 'Oil & Stone', sculpture of Deveren Bowman and paintings of Pip Dickens at East 73rd Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions

2011 'Colour in Art', Beldam Gallery, Brunel University West London, London (invited artist)
2010 'Twelve Constellations', Vulpes Vulpes, London
2009 'Porno-Graph' , Brass Gallery, Leeds
2009 'A Feast for the Eyes', Gallery II, University of Bradford
2009 'Art Auction for the Medical Foundation For the Care of Victims of Torture', Royal Institute of Great Britain, London - donated work
2009 'A Room with a View',Gallery II, University of Bradford
2009 'On Your Wall' , Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds
2009 'Mill' , works on paper, Monika Bobinska Gallery, London
2008 'Femme Fatale' , arts@trinity, Leeds
2007 Alan Kluckow Fine Art, Berkshire
2007 'Pip Dickens', Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, London, curated by Alan Kluckow
2006 'Nocturnal', Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
2004 'Double Take', The Business Arts Council, San Francisco, USA
2004 'Edna', Retrospective of past winners of the Edna Lumb Art Travel Award, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery
2004 'In The Mix', Tangent Contemporary Art at the Nectar Wine Bar at the Marina, San Francisco, USA
2003 'Starting A Collection', Art First, London
2003 'Illusion', Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
2002 'ten', bcontemporary, London
2002 'Sharon Ben-Tal, Pip Dickens & Laurel Hunter', Tangent Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
2002 'Beneath The Surface III', Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
2002 'Best of Art 2002', Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
2002 'FRESH ART FAIR' Business Design Centre, Islington, London
2001 'Beautiful & Unique' Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh
2001 '6th Debenhams Windows Exhibition', Manchester
2001 'Hang Over' exhibition, Smart Studios, Leeds
2001 'Bittersweet', Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London
1999 'Grrr!', The Paper Bag Factory, London
1998 'Edna Lumb Art Travel Award Retrospective', Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax


Awards/Competitions

2010 The Leverhulme Trust - Artist in Residence: University of Huddersfield, Department of Music
2009 Celeste Prize 2009: Painting - shortlisted
2008 Jerwood Contemporary Painting 2009 - nominated
2008 Blackpool Illuminations Design Competition - shortlisted
2001AXIS Sponsored Stand Award atFRESH ART FAIR
2000 Jeremy Cubitt Prize (Slade School of Fine Art)
1997 NatWest Art Prize - shortlisted
1995 Edna Lumb Art Travel Award - Research in Iceland


Commissions/
Residencies/Lectures

2010 Inaugural Lecture: Leverhulme Artist in Residence, University of Huddersfield, December 2010
2010-2011 Leverhulme Trust Award Artist in Residence: University of Huddersfield, Department of Music
2009-2010 Artist in Residence: Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire (and Cliffe Castle, Keighley)
2007 - on hold Public Art commission for new £27m development in the West End of London with MAKE architects


Collaboration

Monty Adkins is a composer, performer, and lecturer of experimental electronic music and audio art. He has drawn upon a range of paintings by Pip Dickens to produce sound pieces. These have premiered and been performed internationally.

They are currently also collaborating within the Leverhulme Trust Award Artist in Residence programme on synergy between music and painting including Japanes themes. For more information go to Leverhulme pages.

20.11.11
shibusa: performed at hcmf// 2011 to coincide with the exhibition with Pip Dickens, the culmination of Dickens' Leverhulme funded Artist in Residence grant. Also at this opening a book detailing the residency will be launched.
21-27.02.11
entangled symmetries: performed throughout HAJIME Exhibition by Pip Dickens, Atrium, Creative Arts Building, University of Huddersfield
24.11.10
entangled symmetries: UK premiere at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Phipps Hall
05.11.10
entangled symmetries: commissioned by and premiered at Visiones Sonores Festival, Morelia, Mexico
14.08.10 to 07.11.10 six works from fragile.flicker.fragment accompany new paintings by Pip Dickens as part of 'Toward the Light’, solo exhibition, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK
13.07.10
fragile.flicker.fragment pt I & IX: performed at the Frome Festival, Frome, Somerset
30.04.10
fabrications IV & V (after Pip Dickens): performed at N.one8, The Venue, Leeds College of Music
11.04.10
fabrications VII (after Pip Dickens): performed at the Dualities Festival, Missouri, USA
26.03.10
fabrications II (after Pip Dickens): performed at the New York City Electroacoustic Festival, NY, USA
http://www.nycemf.org
16.02.10
fabrications I (after Pip Dickens): performed at the C.H.A.T. Festival, UNC, North Carolina, USA
http://www.chatfestival2010.com
05.02.10
Solo concert at Soundings Festival, Reid Hall, Edinburgh University
fabications series (after Pip Dickens) with projected images + other curated works
01.02.10
fabrications I, II, V, VII: (after Pip Dickens): broadcast on Phonogene, RadioHDR, France
http://www.myspace.com/phonogene
11.12.09
fabrications III: universal (after Pip Dickens): performed at the Zepplin Festical, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
http://www.sonoscop.net
04.11.09
Fabrications I & II (after Pip Dickens) : performed at the Flykingen Institute, Stockholm (premiere)


Publications/
Critical Reviews

'Exchange' magazine, Touring Exhibitions Group, front cover illustration and touring exhibition information, Spring 2011
Dig Yorkshire, Highlight, 'Toward the Light by Pip Dickens', web review, 4 out of 5 star rating
Catalogue: Toward the Light - Pip Dickens, catalogue published by Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford 2010 ISBN 9780946657650
'The Alchemy of the Surface: The Paintings of Pip Dickens', by Roy Exley, 2010
Surfacing Art Journal (online journal), April 2009
"I Follow My Art", catalogue, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, London, 2009
Feature interview: Yorkshire Today monthly magazine, April 2009
Contributor /seconds 9 : Vanishing Point: The Vicious and Virtuous Circle, the online journal of contemporary art and its research, 2008
Review, Blackpool Gazette, March 2008, p7
Preview, Metro, 2004
Review, Metro, 2004
Catalogue: 'Edna', published by Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, 2004
Invited contributorThe Leeds Guide,October 2004
Dig Yorkshire, Highlights: 'Edna', web review, 2004
Invited contributor 'Leeds versus London ', contemporary art & leisure scene comparison article for The Leeds Guide, June 2002
Catalogue: 'Fresh Art', published by Fresh Art Fair, Business Design centre, London, p40
Catalogue: PIP DICKENS, published by Simba Print 2000, 2001
Reviews, Art Review, May 2001, p28
Previews, Art Review, February 2001, p24
Feature: Pip Dickens, Galleries magazine, February 2001, p17
Picture Story, Times Higher, May 22 1998, p7

Collections

Numerous Private Collections UK and overseas
Corporate Collections
Doyle Caygill Capital SA, Geneva, Switzerland
The Arch, London
Sovereign Capital, London, UK

Professional Experience

2010 Inaugural Lecture at University of Huddersfield, Department of Music
2009 Judging Panel Bradford Open 09, art competition
2006 - 08 Part-Time lecturer, Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art Course
2006 Part-Time lecturer, Hull School of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art Course
2005 Visiting Lecturer, University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Fine Art Course
Part-Time lecturer, Hull School of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art Course
2004 Part-Time lecturer, Hull School of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art Course
2004 Part-Time lecturer, Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art Course
2003, 2004 Visting Lecturer, Leeds College of Art & Design - Foundation Course Fine Art
2002 Book cover design elements for 'A War of Individuals: Bloomsbury Attitudes To The Great War' by Jon Atkin, published by Manchester University Press, ISBN 0-7190-6071-0
2002 Book design elements for 'Trade Wind Hitchers' by Nicola Russell, published by Seafarer Books ISBN 0-95381-802-0
2002 Slade Undergraduate teaching experience
1999 Publicity Organiser Grrr! exhibition at the Paper Bag Factory, Deptford, London, UK
1996-1998 Marketing Officer, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery & Studio Theatre, Leeds, UK including launch of 'The Ugly Show' and other PHOTO 98 projects plus design/direction for all marketing and publicity material

Membership/Groups

Visual Arts & Galleries Association
AXIS Artists Database
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