Exhibition
Mirrors - Pip Dickens
14 Nov 2017 – 24 Nov 2017
Event times
Monday - Saturday 10.00-4.30
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- Storey Institute
- Meeting House Lane
- Lancaster
- LA1 1TH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- M6 junctions 33 and 34
Event map
Artist, Pip Dickens presents new paintings that explore the self using the mirror as metaphor.
About
Some of Dickens’ paintings acknowledge the explosion of de-formalised self portraiture through mobile ‘phone technology - a self-regarding yet popular activity which, in the main, rarely offers much context to the third party viewer. Selfies are a kind of mirror but a mirror is a magic device. It seems other worldly. It may be a portal through which, like Alice and her Looking Glass, we might climb through to explore worlds both familiar and unfamiliar.These paintings are incongruous, described as ‘deliberately ersatz’ - some are whimsical, some may seem dark or disturbing but most attempt to question through animation of the inanimate to what degree we use masks of our own making to deflect others from seeing our true selves.
What are these figures? Where are they? What are they doing and why do they challenge our gaze? Some figures seem wholly unaware, lost in their dream world on the other side of the glass.