Pip Woolf
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My work brings together a background in conservation and visual art. I make work in response to my local environment with and alongside community and as such regard my practice as participatory based in a socially engaged practice informed through collaborative work specifically with Larks & Ravens (an artist and psychologist group), Sparrows (an artist group) and Artistseeking Attention work with artist curator Kirstin Claxton.
Work has included drawing, film, an artists’ book Water Power, residency in the Welsh Assembly and in 2002 I was awarded a Creative Wales bursary to make “Re-presenting Wool”, work that re-emerged in Woollenline. I am particularly interested in finding a visual language for people engaged in work. Re-Presenting Wool arose in direct response to drawing sheep shearers at work: Marking a Point was an enquiry into the work of the National Assembly for Wales. My interest in the physical world is reflected in my use of materials, for example, found earth pigments and the use of elemental forces to manipulate them. This interest extends my understanding of our humanness and has led to me putting myself alongside people living with dementia to learn and grow new work whilst making exchanges of attention.
Education
Keele University (full-time), Joint Hon’s. BA 2.2 Biology & English, Cert Ed.English & Drama ,
City of London Polytechnic (part-time) MI Biol. Ecology & Behaviour, 2.2,
Queen’s Road School of Art & Design (part-time) Cert. Art & Design, distinction.
Current member of Welsh Group & Swansea Print Workshop with whom I regularly exhibit
Awards/prizes
2002 Creative Wales Bursary Re- Presenting Wool
2004 Campaign to Promote Drawing runner up with mobile library project, Drawing lines
2013 Park Protector, National Parks Society for Woollenline, also National Parks Volunteer project Award
2016 10th Artes Laguna, Venice finalist with Woollenline
2017 Campaign to promote drawing, Big Draw winner for This is Me ! event run in 2016
2019 John Ruskin Prize Agents of Change finalist with Woollenline
Recent work
2023 Interpreting David Jones' Hill Rhythms, work with Kirsty Claxton at y Gaer
2019 Brain research Residency at Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre
2018 Exchange and value, work with Larks & Ravens in Newport Market.
2017 Drawing mind ongoing research into the intersection of art and dementia. Artist in residence, Mountains Care Home. Exploration of boundaries residency on Isle of Eigg with Larks& Ravens
2016 Identity in SPace, work in progress. With members of Swansea Printworkshop, Artist in residence Mountains Care Home an elderly mentally Infirm unit, Libanus,
2015 Inter- generational project, Brookside Residential Care Home & Llangorse Primary School with Tessa Waite & Graham Harthill, Space explorations Larks & Ravens, Bristol
2014/15 Climate Change Conversations, work with Artist Kirsty Claxton & psychologist Dr Alison Kidd as Larks & Ravens to explore how context affects conversation & understanding) Artistseeking Attention Oriel Cae Glas , Nantyglo for Tai Calon Housing Association, Home Ty Parc residential home, Tredegar for the Aerial Project, Neville Hall Hospital
2009/15 Woollenline, repair of upland peat bog (woollenline.wordpress.com) Arts Council of Wales project Bog~ Mawnog an invitation to 5 artists to create work in relation to this site, Woollenline exhibition, The Barn Crickhowell, Drawing Woollenlines film animation of the communities of Woollenline
2009 Bridging Views of Llangynidr collaboration with Buro Happold engineers to construct a paper ‘bridge’ as exploration of different views of place involving 250 households, Exploring self and place, Bishops Castle Primary School with Black Country Creative Partnerships as Artistseeking Attention
2008 Water Power, an artist book in response to community involvement in an installation of a sustainable energy system. Lighting The Green, as Artistseeking Attention, for Silloth Regenerartion Council, Drawing together from the Everyday, Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen
2007 With Kirsty Claxton as Artistseeking Attention Investigation into drawing as the 4thR with Swansea Education Effectiveness, Seeds for Change, Chester City Council, Grosvenor Park, Chester A Journey', Opening the sketchbook, Swansea, City Council Josef Herman Award artist, Pontadawe Arts Centre, The Welfare,Ystradgynlais
2006 ‘Three Sparrows come over the Mountain’ Monte San Martino Italy collaboration with local community resulting in exhibition of work and process with Elizabeth Adeline and Kirsty Claxton
2005/06 Marking a Point, exhibitions in Brecon, Newport, Aberyswyth & Pontadawe of work made during a residency at The National Assembly for Wales
2004 Rhythms of Light, collaboration with Bisakar Sarka, NWDAF & Liverpool Museum, 'Iron frescoes', exploration of found materials with Brynmawr School, Big Draw events with Brecon mobile library and Theatr Brychieinog and Bath Spa
Solo exhibitions
2021-22 Matter of Identity, I, you, we & other y Gaer, Brecon
2019 Matter of Identity Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, 2018 Matter of Identity, ACE Somerset
2014-Listening for the mark, Andrew Lamont Gallery, Brecon
2009-Elemental forces: 1 Water, Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Llanbedrog
2007-Marking a Point, , Oriel Coliseum Museum &Art Gallery, Aberystwyth
2006-Marking a point, Newport Museum & Art Gallery, Rare Music 2, Plas Glyn y Weddw,
2005-Marking a point, Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery
2003-Re-presenting Wool, National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, Die Winterreise, South Western Medical Centre, Dallas
2001 Theatr Brycheiniog, Drawing attention. Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery, Rare music
2000- ACAD, London Schubert series
1999-From a Brecon Barn, Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth
1998-Land, Light & Colour, Knutsford, Impressions of the Dyffryn Theatr Clera,
1996-Black And White Cows, Royal Agricultural Show
1995-Colours Of The Black Mountains, The Bear, Crickhowell, Norwegian Church, Cardiff
Group exhibitions (selection)
2019 Doorways, FAB, Bath
2016 Identity in the SPace, Swansea
2014-Dylan Thomas Dialogues, Ceri Richards Gallery, Swansea
2013-Woollenline, Courtyard Barn, Crickhowell
2011-Bog~Mawnog Brecknock Museum &Art Gallery
2010-Lines & Strata 2, tour. Drovers, Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery
2008-Mapping the Welsh Group, at 60 years, tour
2007- Disposable Fetish, Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts Trust, London, The Farm, Stroud House
2004-Identity, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Sheep, Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery, Drawing the Line, Orleans House Gallery, London
2000-Rare, International Women's festival, Washington Gallery, Cardiff
1999 Taunton open
1998-Black & White, Gulkbenkian Welsh Art Prize, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts Open
1997 Pontardawe, Aspects of Wales, Wales Drawing Biennale