Four-Fold Reverie at PINK

Our local gallery favourite – PINK – is entering a new stage of their exhibitions programming with the solo show Four-fold Reverie by Pippa Eason. The event marks the first of PINK’s in-house exhibitions so let’s take a closer look at the work on display.

Artist Pippa Eason is a studio holder at PINK. She is interested in the body and its constantly shifting relationship with its surroundings, which takes the form of sculptural mini-environments.

The four individual zones incorporate ceramics, sound, moving image and even scent as well as numerous other elements. Conceptually, they’re rooted in the artist’s experience of neurodivergence and body dysmorphia but these manifest more in feeling than a material form. In many ways, the work remains open to interpretation.

Each space represents a different aspect of the artist’s internal world, but no fixed, singular meaning. There are abstracted sculptural forms and contrasts: softness sits side by side with harsher textures, flowing ceramic shapes sit on angular platforms.

There is a visceral element to Eason’s work, one that speaks to the body, gestures and forms we all instinctively interpret based on our own bodily experience.  Look out for the smallest details too: the curves, edges, and gentle changes of hue in the ceramic glazes.

It’s clear that Eason takes pleasure in the process of making – the choice of materials and colours seems to be as important as the concepts behind them.

Four-fold Reverie is the artist’s most ambitious work to date and has been developed in collaboration with designer Nick Booton, composer Jia Lee, ceramicists Florrie Andrews and Joe Hartley and fabricator Johnny Billinge with support from artist Maeve Thompson (giving you a taste of the variety of elements you can expect to encounter).

As we mentioned before, Four-fold Reverie marks the launch of PINK’s new in-house exhibition programme which is developed in parallel with Director Katy Morrison’s practice-based PhD. The programme is dedicated to exploring care and co-creation in the context of curatorial practice.

A free public programme of events accompanies the exhibition too so check PINK’s Instagram page for more details.