Pippa Eason
Eason’s practice centres on immersive installations that draw from autoethnographic reflections on her relationship with her body and the ways she navigates physical and social spaces. Her work articulates the complexities of an entangled inner world, shaping a visual language built on gesture, interaction, and storytelling that resonates with personal experience.
Over the past decade, she has addressed a critical gap in the socio-political discourse around mental health, particularly from a female perspective. Sculptural installations form the core of this practice, often incorporating recurring motifs and symbolic forms that hold space for vulnerability and resilience alike.
Her multidisciplinary approach spans sculpture, drawing, 3D printing, sound, and performance, offering multiple entry points for expression and introspection. More recently, ceramics have become a central part of her practice, providing a tactile, grounding medium through which to probe the intersections between personal narrative, materiality, and the mind.
This is exemplified in Four-fold Reverie, a large-scale installation unfolding across four immersive environments. The work combines ceramics, scent, sound, moving image, and spatial intervention to create a sculptural encounter with shifting states of perception, embodiment, and emotion. Audiences are invited into an architecture of feeling, where softness meets friction, and suspension meets vitality; a space that embodies the dualities and tensions of lived experience.
Lived Experience
Pippa Eason (b.1993), is a contemporary artist, based in Manchester. Highlighted shows include Solo: ‘The Ball of My Foot’, SEAGER Gallery, April 2019, London, ‘FUN’ GRAFT Gallery, October 2019, Lancaster, and ‘Much Too Shy’ AIR Gallery, July 2020, Manchester, ‘Objects at Play’, a duo with Charlotte Dawson for Middlesbrough Art Weekender, September 2022, and ‘Terra (re) Forma’, PINK, Stockport, November 2024. Eason was Awarded DYCP Funding in June 2024, and in July 2025, Eason embarked on a large-scale solo project at PINK, Stockport, funded by The Haworth Trust.
Selected: Group Shows
‘Zero Plan & Top Ten’, Artotheque de Caen, December 2024, France
‘Terra (re) Forma’, November 2024, PINK, Stockport
‘Hypha Studios x Dispensary Open’, October 2024, Wrexham
‘KNIP’ Juxtapose Art Fair, September 2023, Aarhus, Denmark
‘A Modest Show’, The Manchester Contemporary, November 2022, Manchester
‘Thought Forms’, PS Mirabel, curated by Linda Hemmersbach, June 2022, Manchester
‘Emergence’, Outdoors, Basement Arts Project, June 2021, Leeds
‘Much Too Shy’, Air Gallery, July 2020, Manchester
‘LGM-1’ The Function Suite, February 2020, London
‘FUN’, GRAFT Projects, October 2019, Lancaster
‘ABSINTHE 3’ Collective Ending, September 2019, London
‘Friends of Fuzzy Memory’, CASS Gallery, curated by Will Marshall, May 2019, Manchester AIR Gallery Open, August 2019, Manchester
‘FIG.1 LIMELIGHT’, Muddy Yard, December 2018, London
‘Sense’, Spanish City, SHELF November 2018, Newcastle
‘Empty Vessels’, Scaffold Gallery, Bankley Gallery, August 2018, Manchester
‘Extended Call’, Subsidiary Projects, September 2018, London
‘Tough Matter X Site Gallery’, July 2018, Sheffield
‘A City of Two Tales,’ April 2018, Depot Studios, Manchester
‘Cluny X Misugo’, The Whitworth Gallery, September 2017, Manchester
‘Sluice Biennial’, September 2017, Hackney, London
‘Dishwasher Safe’, System Gallery, August 2017 Newcastle
‘Small world’, PS Mirabel, July 2017, Manchester
‘Is This Real Lyf??’, June 2017, B&D studios, Newcastle
‘I miss you, Blockbuster’ March 2017, isthisit? London
‘An Offering to Baba Yaga’, March 2017, serf, Leeds
‘An Evening With isthisit?’, December 2016, Suffolk
‘Group Show 1: Taction’ September 2016, serf, Leeds
‘A Message out of The Big Blue’, June 2016, Another Vacant Space, Berlin
‘TPA X MUESLI Projects’, Funf at Threshold Festival, April 2016, Liverpool
‘Glitter is not Gold’, Four Words: MARKET, curated by Alan Dunn, September 2016, Leeds
‘Isthisit? AFK’, November 2016, London
Selected: Solo Shows
‘Four-Fold Reverie’, curated by Katy Morrison, PINK, July 2025, Stockport
‘Funny Blurry and Everything Hazy’, curated and produced by MDP, PINK, September 2021, Manchester
‘The Ball of My Foot’, curated by Lucy Cowling, Seager Gallery, April 2019, London
‘Set in Stone’, curated by Bruce Davies, Basement Arts Project, October 2016, Leeds
‘The Vitrines: Pippa Eason’ curated by William Clarke, Set the Controls for The Heart of The Sun, March 2016, Leeds
Selected: Duo Shows
‘Objects at Play’ with Charlotte Dawson, curated by Will Hughes, September 2022, Middlesbrough Art Weekender
‘SubLIME s l i m e’ with Zoe Molloy at Goldtapped Gallery, January 2018, Newcastle
‘IN THE PINK’, with Joseph Cotgrave, serf, April 2017, Leeds
‘Still Scrolling’ with Ellie Hoskins, The Trophy Room, Royal Standard, February 2017, Liverpool
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