Measure and Purpose
Opening Night: Monday 8th of Feb 6-8pm
February 9th to February 13th 2010
Kate Brigden and Pippa Gatty
‘Measure and Purpose’ is an exhibition engaging with ideas of exploration, pseudo-scientific study and the drive to explore and to explain.
‘Measure and Purpose’ is an exhibition engaging with ideas of exploration, pseudo-scientific study and the drive to explore and to explain. Yi-Fu Tuan in Topophilia explains ‘the artificial environment they [humans] have built is an outcome of mental processes- similarly, myths, legends, taxonomies, and science. All these achievements may be seen as cocoons that humans have wove in order to feel more at home in nature.’ (Tuan, P.13) Both Gatty and Brigden’s work draws reference from scientific method. There is a need to map, measure, and to de-mystify, but it is where these techniques fail to fully quantify that creates a platform on which the work is made.
Kate Brigden’s practise is a synthesis of two conflicting attitudes to viewing the world, from a scientific, taxonomical approach, where everything has to be explained and ordered, and from a phenomenological approach where the world is viewed as a ‘continuous,’ unfolding and animate.
Factual and imagined stories of discovery and exploration is the foundation to Pippa Gatty’s work, drawing parallels between her quest as an artist and what drives her with that of an adventurer and explorer. The role of theatre, and the act of pretending and believing is addressed within the work; which engages a suspension of disbelief and a documentary aesthetic.
Kate Brigden (b. 1982, London) studied BA Fine Art at Winchester School of Art and then completed her MA at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2008. Recent group exhibitions include in Hinterlands, Trafalgar House, Brighton (‘09), Propeller Island in collaboration with Brompton Windows Project, South Kensington, London (‘09) ‘Pastoral Sliders’ in collaboration with Brompton Windows Project (’07). Kate Brigden lives and works in Brighton, East Sussex.
Pippa Gatty (b. 1965, London) completed her MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2008. Recent awards include the Red Mansion Art Prize (’09), and a month long residency in Beijing. Recent exhibitions include ‘Throw’em out, they break my heart’ at SE8, London (‘09), ‘These Here United States’ (‘09) ‘The Master Piper’. Marmite Painting Prize (08), Studio 1:1, Salon 08, Vinespace, ‘Valley Argentina’ (‘07) Subway Gallery, (Solo show), ‘Future Map 2007, ‘The Arts Gallery’. ‘Pastoral Sliders’ (‘07), Brompton Windows Project, ‘The Black Wall’ (‘07) Subway Gallery (solo show). Pippa Gatty lives and works in London.