- Venue
- Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
- Starts
- Wednesday, January 18, 2012
- Ends
- Saturday, April 14, 2012
- Address
- Parkinson Building Woodhouse Lane University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT
- Location
- Yorkshire
Based on literary research and the Michael Sadler Kashmir Shawl Collection at ULITA (University of Leeds International Textile Archive), the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery will exhibit new paintings and works on paper commissioned from artist Pip Dickens from 18 January to 14 April 2012. Dickens extrapolates the Kashmiri ‘boteh’ motif from these exotic fabrics resulting in anthropomorphic entities, heavy with shadow, placed within dramatic environments. These motifs traverse the canvas – sometimes together, sometimes alone. The environments and terrains she has constructed fuse textile qualities (colour, surface texture, repetition and shape) with the theatrical and fantastic. She has visited methodologies and imagery of Hieronymus Bosch, Disney animation and the claustrophobic ‘arena’ interiors of Francis Bacon to present her boteh shapes as individuals, or groups, in socio-political contexts that, although brightly coloured suggest an underlying threat or sense of isolation.
