Exhibitions
Qualifications
2000 Master of Fine Art: Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London
1996 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Leeds Metropolitan University
Solo Exhibitions &Events
2019
The 'WOODS' series of charcoal drawings acquired by the British Museum Prints & Drawing Collection. see THE WOODS series here
2017
‘Mirrors - Pip Dickens’, Storey Gallery, Lancaster, UK
2013
‘Pip Dickens’, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
‘Pip Dickens - SCREEN’ , Rugby Art Gallery, Warwickshire, supported by the Arts Council of England
2012
‘Toward the Light - Pip Dickens', The Brindley Arts Centre, Cheshire, (31 Mar - 12 May 2012). Touring Exhibition
‘Pip Dickens - Patterns of Shadows', Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, London (6 Mar- 17 Apr 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. Touring Exhibition
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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
NEW EXHIBITIONS PLANNED -SUMMER 2023
2021
"What Do We Know Anyway?": WDWKA is a substantial exhibition curated by artist JJ Chan. It presents works by students and teachers that JJ has encountered through formal educational relationships: those that have taught them, and those that they have taught, all of whom, they say, they have learnt from. Pip Dickens is an invited artist.
BLOC Projects, Sheffield
Creator: JJ Chan | Curated by Sunshine Wong
10-21 July 2021
'Enough is Definitely Enough' by Andrew Bracey is a 2021 publication illustrating three touring exhibitions of 62 artists responses to the famous Velazquez painting, Las Meninas with contributions by participating artists (including Pip Dickens)
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2020
"Summer Haze": Group exhibition featuring paintings by 5 international artists: Igor Baranov and Oleg Mikhailov from Russia, Pip Dickens from UK, Tomáš Žemla from Slovakia and Zhang Xue from China. Cheer Bell Gallery, Hong Kong
7th July 2020- 31st August 2020
"Enough is Definitely Enough #3rd iteration:
Contemporary artists respond to Velazquez’ Las Meninas"
Curated by Andrew Bracey
Pineapple Black, Middlesborough from 24 September – 17 October 2020 AND Related news item here
"Enough is Definitely Enough #2nd iteration: 53 contemporary artists respond to Velazquez’ Las Meninas", Oceans Apart Gallery, Salford, UK (touring exhibition curated by Andrew Bracey),
7 March - 3 April 2020
2019
HONG KONG ART FAIR represented by Cheer Bell Gallery, Hong Kong
2017
‘Fully Awake’, 2nd show of the exhibition cycle organised by ‘Teaching Painting’ group, curated by Ian Hartshorne and Sean Kaye. Venue: House For An Art Lover, Glasgow, 2nd - 18th November 2017
2015
‘In Light of the Monochrome’: Jane Harris, David Batchelor, Pip Dickens, Estelle Thompson, Heather Boxall, Manya Donaque and Clare Booker. Exhibition and Symposium. Curated by Heather Boxall. Bradford College of Art and Media, Bradford, Yorkshire
2014
‘Celebrating Figuration and Abstraction: Elvira Bach - Pip Dickens - Gernot Kissel (1939 – 2008),’ curated by Vera Schuhmacher Fine Art and Renée Pfister Art & Gallery Consultancy, London. Foundry Gallery, Chelsea, London
‘Festival Gallery Artists’: Includes works by Michael Craig-Martin, Suzanne Treister, Willie Doherty, Brian Fell, Ralph McGaul, Elizabeth Stuart Smith, Pip Dickens and James Quin. At The Studios, Cheshire
2013
‘Inverse-Evoke: Art & Text’, R K Burt Gallery, London, curated by Renée Pfister, Art & Gallery Consultancy
Brighton Art Fair 2013, Renée Pfister, Art & Gallery Consultancy
Fulham Palace Art Fair 2013, Renée Pfister, Art & Gallery Consultancy
‘Art at The Yard’ pop up exhibition by The Festival Gallery
2012
'Brittle Crazie Glasse', curated by Lucy Newman-Cleeve of Man & Eve Gallery, London at Islington Mill, Salford
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
'A Feast for the Eyes', Gallery II, University of Bradford
'Art Auction for the Medical Foundation For the Care of Victims of Torture', Royal Institute of Great Britain, London
'On Your Wall' , Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds
'Mill', works on paper, Monika Bobinska Gallery,London
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
'Edna', Retrospective of past winners of the Edna Lumb Art Travel Award, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery
'In The Mix', Tangent Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Marina, USA
2003
'Starting A Collection', Art First, London
'Illusion', Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
2002
'ten', bcontemporary, London
'Sharon Ben-Tal, Pip Dickens & Laurel Hunter', Tangent Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
'Beneath The Surface III', Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
'Best of Art 2002', Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
'FRESH ART FAIR' Business Design Centre, Islington, London
'Edna Lumb Art Travel Award Retrospective', Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax
2001
‘Beautiful & Unique' Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh
'6th Debenhams Windows Exhibition', Manchester
'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
2016
Selected for 9th 2016 Art Slant Prize Showcase Winner - Abstract Painting
Selected for 6th 2016 Art Slant Prize Showcase Winner - Abstract Painting
2012
Marmite Painting Prize: longlisted final 50 for 2012 catalogue
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
2001
AXIS Sponsored Stand Award at FRESH 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/Lecturing
Numerous part-time and visiting lecture posts in HE and FE between 2005-2013
2015
‘In Light of the Monochrome’, exhibition and symposium. Key Speaker: ‘Netherworlds of Greyness: Green-Lipped Geishas and Old Sheep Dogs’ - on monochromatic colour: grey and green. Bradford College of Art and Media, Bradford, Yorkshire
2013
East Meets West: Painting, Calligraphy and More by Gu Feng and Pip Dickens. Talk and Live Demonstration, Business Confucius Institute/University Leeds at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Lecturer in Fine Art (Painting), Lancaster University
2012
Seminar: ‘Working with/in Japan’, The University for the Creative Arts, Surrey. Organised by Prof. Lesley Millar
2012
Participant in pilot study ‘What is Creativity?’ By Dr Jean Carabine, Open University (status:ongoing)
Commissioned Residency at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
2010-2011
Leverhulme Trust Award Artist in Residence: University of Huddersfield, Department of Music
2009-2010
Commissioned Residency: Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire (and Cliffe Castle, Keighley)
2006
Public art commission Piccadilly, London working with Make Architects. Designs for external integral public artwork
Public Collections
The British Musem Prints & Drawing Collection (acquired November 2019)
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery | University of Leeds
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery | Bradford Museums & Galleries
Numerous Private & Corporate Collections
Authored Publications
2017
'A Choreography of the Senses - The Painter's Studio' (Chapter 13)
Heywood, I. (Ed.). (2017). Sensory Arts and Design (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086635
2012
Shibusa - Extracting Beauty
Edited by Monty Adkins and Pip Dickens, published by University of Huddersfield Press, ISBN-10: 1862181012,ISBN-13: 978-1862181014