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Pippa Ward

Pippa Ward

Pippa’s work is focussed on the environment, with a particular interest in our use and relationship with single use plastics She looks at man’s inevitable impact on nature by using found plastic bags,
bottle tops and found beach plastic … ubiquitous and disposable materials and objects that do untold damage to our environment if discarded and used carelessly. Plastic’s unimaginably long lifespan, coupled with how casually we, as a society treat it, becomes a perfect metaphor for our almost blind overconsumption of the material.

In the words of philosopher Roland Barthes … “the essence of an object has something to do with the way it turns into trash” … possibly meaning that once an object has been discarded, and thus absolved of its function, its form becomes brightly visible … out of its original place and freed from its status as a commodity. Once and object is no longer treated in terms of its use/value, the ‘thingness’ and ‘unwantedness’ of an item intensifies. This is when Pippa becomes interested in it.

Pippa acquires plastic by visiting beaches regularly, particularly following a storm. She is a keen wild swimmer and has noticed the problem developing over the years. The processes that follow gathering involve mindful taxonomy and grouping to create arrangements that, at times, speak of scientific plates and classification, and in a way that allows the plastic to ask the questions.

We can love the effect that the environment has on the material, and conversely and simultaneously hate the effect that the material has on the environment.

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