Pippa El-Kadhi Brown: A World Inside Out
Freelands Foundation
March 2025
The Studio
The plumed tails of a strange avian creature stretch comet-like across ‘The Fly’, a new, sonorous painting by Pippa El-Kadhi Brown, which I am shown from a distance of 262km on a Friday afternoon.
I briefly become the fly as Pippa gives me a whizzing virtual tour of her studio in the newly renovated Grosvenor West building at Manchester School of Art, where she began the Freelands Studio Fellowship in February 2024.
The fellowship has offered a seismic shift to the usual cadence of Pippa’s practice, providing a caesura within which to reflect – to experiment formally with paint, pushing it beyond the artist’s ritual chalkiness, and to pursue new ideas catalysed by the acts of both teaching and making.
The studio is bright with steepled windows. Behind Pippa, students graze about their own modular areas with studied concentration. A hedgehog of paintbrushes sits atop a paint-encrusted butcher’s block. I see a trolley stuffed with artistic bric-a-brac and books, concertinaed drawings pinned to the walls and canvases piled high, montage-like, with forms on the brink of coalescing.
In situ
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Pippa El-Kadhi Brown: A World Inside Out
Freelands Foundation
March 2025
The Studio
The plumed tails of a strange avian creature stretch comet-like across ‘The Fly’, a new, sonorous painting by Pippa El-Kadhi Brown, which I am shown from a distance of 262km on a Friday afternoon.
I briefly become the fly as Pippa gives me a whizzing virtual tour of her studio in the newly renovated Grosvenor West building at Manchester School of Art, where she began the Freelands Studio Fellowship in February 2024.
The fellowship has offered a seismic shift to the usual cadence of Pippa’s practice, providing a caesura within which to reflect – to experiment formally with paint, pushing it beyond the artist’s ritual chalkiness, and to pursue new ideas catalysed by the acts of both teaching and making.
The studio is bright with steepled windows. Behind Pippa, students graze about their own modular areas with studied concentration. A hedgehog of paintbrushes sits atop a paint-encrusted butcher’s block. I see a trolley stuffed with artistic bric-a-brac and books, concertinaed drawings pinned to the walls and canvases piled high, montage-like, with forms on the brink of coalescing.
In situ
Freelands Foundation
March 2025
The Studio
The plumed tails of a strange avian creature stretch comet-like across ‘The Fly’, a new, sonorous painting by Pippa El-Kadhi Brown, which I am shown from a distance of 262km on a Friday afternoon.
I briefly become the fly as Pippa gives me a whizzing virtual tour of her studio in the newly renovated Grosvenor West building at Manchester School of Art, where she began the Freelands Studio Fellowship in February 2024.
The fellowship has offered a seismic shift to the usual cadence of Pippa’s practice, providing a caesura within which to reflect – to experiment formally with paint, pushing it beyond the artist’s ritual chalkiness, and to pursue new ideas catalysed by the acts of both teaching and making.
The studio is bright with steepled windows. Behind Pippa, students graze about their own modular areas with studied concentration. A hedgehog of paintbrushes sits atop a paint-encrusted butcher’s block. I see a trolley stuffed with artistic bric-a-brac and books, concertinaed drawings pinned to the walls and canvases piled high, montage-like, with forms on the brink of coalescing.
In situ
