Pippa Young graduated with first-class honours degree in Fine Art from Falmouth University. Since then, she has exhibited both nationally and internationally, showcasing her work across 10 solo exhibitions. She has also been selected for numerous prestigious group exhibitions, including the John Ruskin Prize, Wells Contemporary, and The Discerning Eye.
Ideas that inform the artist's work derive both from personal experience with the process and act of painting, as well as a desire to reflect something of what it is like to be human in an uncertain world. The work explores themes of uncertainty, psychological identity, notions of reality, fragility, doubt, and the fragmentary nature of contemporary experience.
Young is interested in how psychological identity is constructed through fragments of experience and memory. 'Who we are' is often dependent on location and context and is constantly evolving through interactions with other people and the world. Our inner condition is in constant flux, constructed from memory, experience, and the willingness (or lack thereof) to conform to social expectations.
"Life is increasingly digital - experienced through a screen, second-hand - 'as if real life exists beyond the veil.' In an image-saturated culture where we consume images without thinking, I believe painting can be an antidote to the noise of digital channels. The process of making my work has a meditative quality - a thousand small, repetitive acts of contemplation. The painting becomes a repository of accrued time, thoughts, and ideas. I hope that the paintings can provide a pause, a moment of meditative contemplation; a way of slowing down the pace of image consumption in mass media." Pippa Young