- Venue
- The Storey
- Starts
- Tuesday, November 14, 2017
- Ends
- Friday, November 24, 2017
- Address
- Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TH
- Location
- North West England
- Organiser
- The Storey Gallery Lancaster
Some of Dickens’ paintings acknowledge the explosion of de-formalised self portraiture through mobile ‘phone technology – a self-regarding yet popular activity which, in the main, rarely offers much context to the third party viewer. Selfies are a kind of mirror but a mirror is a magic device. It seems other worldly. It may be a portal through which, like Alice and her Looking Glass, we might climb through to explore worlds both familiar and unfamiliar.
These paintings are incongruous, described as ‘deliberately ersatz’ – some are whimsical, some may seem dark or disturbing but most attempt to question through animation of the inanimate to what degree we use masks of our own making to deflect others from seeing our true selves.
What are these figures? Where are they? What are they doing and why do they challenge our gaze? Some figures seem wholly unaware, lost in their dream world on the other side of the glass.
‘MIRRORS – Pip Dickens’ is supported by Grants for the Arts (Arts Council England) and Lancaster University funding.
