Pippin

Multi disciplinary artist based in Northern Rivers NSW Australia. Textiles, visual arts, poems and songs. He/it. Transsexual butch hobbit.

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Hello my loves! Thought I'd pop in and do a bit of an introduction 🩷 my name is Pippin! I'm an artist based in Northern Rivers NSW Australia striving to create works that speak to both the positives and negatives of growth and self (re)creation through visual art, textiles, poetry and songs.

A bit about me and my art-

I was a busker in my childhood and teens, my dad was in bands, my mother and grandparents are singers, my uncle plays guitar. Music was a massive part of my upbringing. Visual art came into my life a lot later.

I thought I hated painting for the longest time. It turns out what I actually disliked was not understanding how to create a visual piece of art that was mine. Making art that looked like mine was an intense unlearning process. I'm a big believer in unlearning things. It took a lot of years of stripping back my preconceived notions of what art even is for me to begin seeing, feeling, putting myself into my work.

Textiles feature heavily in my work and my daily life, and adding knit, crochet or embroidered elements to my paintings has helped me put more of myself into my art.

Most of my works are vibrant colours featuring plants and eyes and faces. For me, eyes are a perfect way to represent both the positives and negatives of "being seen". The pain and the love of being witnessed and, in turn, to bear witness. Plants are my visual representation of growth in the literal sense, the beauty of physical change.

I enjoy thinking of my art as an ongoing conversation between artist and audience, as with music. My work has specific meaning, but that meaning will change on the other side of the canvas, and with time. I am endlessly excited about what the other side of the canvas has to teach me, what things I will next unlearn.

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Some brief end of year updates 🩷

Participated in an exhibition featuring all trans and gender queer artists for a lovely week of Trans Day of Remembrance celebrations at a local gallery. Was such a beautiful experience.

Playing at a queer new year's festival in a few days.

Life is weird.

Happy Xmas and new year 🩷

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I played an entire set of original songs on the back of a truck yesterday wearing a barbie pink outfit I am literally living my childhood dreams holy fuck holy shit oh my god what the fuck

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How to make an art dangly: find a cool broken thing and put it on a pretty string. Congratulations, you now have an arty dangly thingy!

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Moon. Fabric and thread. Stitched from a photo my brother took.

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Making notebooks 🎨🪡📚

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New song 🥰

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Did you know that Australia discards 6,000kg of textiles and clothing every 10 minutes? And textile waste accounts for approx 10% of worldwide CO2 emissions?

🌿♻️🧦 Using textile scraps along with recycled and repurposed materials in my art is a very important part of not just my creative process but my beliefs. Not just for the personal reasons of finding so much joy and beauty in the lost memories of old things, but because I wanna do my tiny little part for the earth that so graciously allows us to live and love here.

And hey! Cool unique art stuffs! Bonus!!

🎸🎶 I will be doing patching/mending demonstrations at my stall at the Rock'n'Roll Swap'n'Meet Saturday 19th August from 10am onwards (LISMORE, NSW). Come by and learn the wonderful life long skill of patching and mending your own clothes/turning them into something new 🪡🧵

🌼 Saturday 19th August.

🌼 10am onwards.

🌼 23 Newbridge Street, SEESPACE Lismore NSW.

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tv room

16 x 16 in

small freehand knit. back side in the 3rd pic

2022

❤️

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WIP in morning light.

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I think I've got the camping bug. I'm already planning a little make-shift artist retreat type thing by just camping on the macadamia farm my boyfriend helps manage. Dreaming of creek side cups of tea in the crisp morning air before hunkering down and getting to work on everything I need to get done between now my next gig. But being able to enjoy being out and about at the same time. I didn't really have much time to thoroughly enjoy my camping much on the road trip because we were doing things every day and ended up being super busy. Dreaming of a few days some time soon of art making in nature (the farm is stunning) and snuggling the dog in the tent in the evenings.

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I adore using scraps. Little bits and bobs and offcuts and trinkets. Each little treasure holding its own little unknown story. Touchable memory. Tactile joys and sorrows lost to time and place, but passed on with loving intent. Tangible history through recycling, repurposing, reusing.

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Excited to do some patching/mending demonstrations at a Rock N Roll Swap N Meet later this month!!!

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Got home from our road trip last night! What a week. Adventuring with my bf and our doggo for a whole week. Meeting new people. Seeing new places. Catching up with old friends. Witnessing one of our oldest pals and her new husband celebrating their special day was a truly beautiful experience. So many brand new shiny memories made that I will treasure always.

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The Possibility of Crows

Sorry there are no pictures of it on--it is hard to take pictures by yourself!

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Applies to crochet and any other fiber arts too.

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"Look At All The Bugs We've Found" soft sculpture piece inspired by continuous line drawings my brother did when he was young. 30+ hours of stitching and spinning. Titled after lyrics in We're Going To Be Friends by The White Stripes.