pippa el-kadhi brown
London, painter
biography
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown (b.1996) is a London based artist who explores the enigmatic dialogue between domestic space, consciousness, and the human psyche. She graduated from MA Painting at Royal College of Art (2022), after studying BA Painting at The University of Brighton, School of Art (2018).
Her work has recently been exhibited at Lychee One Gallery for her Solo Exhibition ‘Walls Who Whisper’ (London, 2022). Other solo exhibitions include ‘Where the Dust Settles’ (CBU Gallery, Taipei, 2022), ‘Around You, Within You, or Nowhere at All’ (Ashurst, London, 2020), and ‘House Plants’ (Creekside Projects, London 2019).
She received The Ali H. Alazzi Scholarship Award (2020), The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize (2020), The Art Pegazs Taste of Life Award (2019), The Creekside Graduate Studio Award (2019) and has been shortlisted for the Chadwell Award (2022) and the Global Design Graduate Award (2022).
She has taken part in residencies internationally; Organhaus Residency (2019), Chongqing, China and the Creekside Graduate Studio Residency (2019), London, UK, and has an upcoming residency with Artpegazs’ Artfarm Liepaja in Liepaja, Latvia.
She has been featured by Made in Bed, Where’s The Frame and She Curates.
exhibitions
2020-22 Royal College of Art, Painting MA
2015-18 University of Brighton, School of Art, Painting BA
2014-15 UAL Camberwell College of the Arts, Foundation
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Vista, LAMB Gallery, London, UK
Walls Who Whisper, Lychee One, London, UK
2022 Where the Dust Settles, CBU Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Around You, Within You, or Nowhere at All, Ashurst, London, UK
2019 House Plants, Creekside Projects, London, UK
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Imagination Rooms, Pippa El-Kadhi Brown & Roy Oxlade, New Normal Projects, Cromwell Place, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Extension, Phony Art Collective, Regency Town House, Brighton, UK
Still Life, Still Living, Lamb Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
The Ripple Effect, Liepaja Museum, Latvia
In Living Colour, Amp Gallery, London, UK
2022 Culture EXPO, Culture Centre, Ningbo, China
Beijing Contemporary Art EXPO Beijing, China
The Infinite Game: Hide and Seek, WAS Art Centre, Ningbo, China
A Feast for the Eyes, StART Art Fair, Galleria Foret, Seoul, Korea
Fancy a Bite?, Studio West, London, UK
RCA 2022 Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Time Lines, Peckham Safe House I, London, UK
The Booth Without an Art Fair, SET Woolwich, London, UK
One Art Taipei, The Sherwood Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Garden of the New Deity, Lí Gallery, Shanghai, China
2021 Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Under the Same Sky, Peckham Safehouse I, London, UK
Further Than The Eye Can See, Barkney Wick, London, UK
Star Start 2, Rear Window Gallery, Hangzhou, China
The Running Water Takes Me to a Farther Lake, Meisyakan, Ningbo, China
Interior, Exterior, Sala Salon, London, UK
Brighten up the Night, Yuan Museum, Hangzhou, China
The Birthday Party, The Artists Contemporary, web
WiP Show 2021, Royal College of Art, web
2020 Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2020 Shortlist, Ashurst, London, UK
Exhibition 104, Amina Malik Gallery, London, UK
A World Without End, No Barking Art, web
Your Landscape; Life Inside Quarantine, Q Collective Gallery, web
DragonT : Ugly Duck, London, UK
2019 Meet and See, Wushan Art Centre, Chongqing, China
The Taste of Life, Art Pegazs, Riga, Latvia
The London Ultra, Bargehouse OXO Tower Wharf, London, UK
Cat's Mother, Her, She, Organhaus, Chongqing, China
Bleur, Monochrome Studios, London, UK
Binary, Partisan Collective, Manchester, UK
2018 Present Perfect Continuous, Old Biscuit Factory, London, UK
Rising Talent, Hastings Art Forum, Hastings, UK
University of Brighton, School of Art Graduate Show, Grand Parade, Brighton, UK
2017 Land and Sea, Barbican House Museum, Lewes, UK
Inbetween, Grand Parade, Brighton, UK
2015 UAL Camberwell Summer Show, CCW Progression Centre, London, UK
AWARDS
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Finalist (2023)
Global Design Graduate Award Finalist (2022)
Chadwell Award Finalist (2022)
Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize (2020)
The Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award, Royal College of Art (2020)
Art Pegazs Taste of Life Award (2019)
Creekside Artists Graduate Studio Award (2019)
Platform Graduate Award Finalist (2018)
Rising Talent Award Finalist (2018)
RESIDENCIES
Organhaus Studio Residency, Chongqing, China (2019)
Creekside Artists Graduate Studio Residency, London, UK (2019)
FUNDRAISERS / COLLABORATIONS
#BOKA GIVING, Boutique Kaotique X Pippa El-Kadhi Brown Clothing Collaboration, in support of LGBT+ Charity
Bernston Bhattacharjee X Women's Aid, Charity Auction against domestic violence
DragonT Fundraiser for the Homeless, in support of The Outsider Project
LECTURES / TUTORIALS
University of Brighton, School of Art, Visiting Tutor (April 2022)
University of Brighton, School of Art, Alumni Lecture (April 2022)
Royal College of Art, Artist's Talk; The Home Conscious (February 2022)
