UCA Farnham Fine Art Year 2 Student Pippa Ward in Oxford Street

UCA Farnham Fine Art student Pippa Ward, who is currently studying in her 2nd year recently exhibited her sculpture "Sphere" in the exhibition CONSUME in the Elaine Thomas Gallery. Pippa's boldly coloured and striking sculpture was made out of plastic bags that are used from shopping taken from a 3 week period from one household to raise awareness of the use of plastic and it's environmental impact. 



Over the Christmas academic break Pippa took the sculpture to Oxford Circus and rolled the sculpture up an down the Oxford Street to test her practice and site her work within a more expanded and relational context. The obvious playful attraction of the object is part of the lure to spread a her socially engaged message. See the link to a film of Pippa's performance below.

Pippa is currently developing this work in collaboration with a number of educational, environmental and arts organisations.


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UCA Farnham Fine Art in CONSUME in the Elaine Thomas Gallery

UCA Farnham Fine Art students Max Leach, Pippa Ward and Gloria Alderson-Nemeth had work curated into the current exhibition "CONSUME" in the Elaine Thomas Gallery. 

Work spanning artist video, sculpture and installation will be open to the public until 5th January 2015.

Gloria Anderson-Nemeth

It's All Shit At The End Of The Day 

The geometric precision fails to contain its slime, proving the contaminating matter to have no boundaries. These paintings using food explore the affective tension between desire and disgust and the perpetual visceral sexual body.

Max Leach

Chit Chat

With reference to structural film, this work responds to encounters that exploit contingency and social codes, which are present within given scenarios and are encountered within the everyday. Abjection is explored via a repetitive and banal action with the mouth.

Pippa Ward

Sphere

The sphere contains between seven to ten thousands bags. It has taken three solid weeks of collecting bags and industrial plastic from three local supermarkets.  The material has been gathered from their ‘recycling’ bins.

The work began its life out of a concern for the amount of plastics in our seas. It now seems to be more about consumerism, waste and confusion over recycling.  It is also about our dependence on plastic.