Philippa Drinkwater
Philippa Drinkwater is a fine artist who explores notions of ritualization and phenomenology through both practical and written work. Specialising in film, photography and installation, these methods help to immerse the audience in the work. Looking at how behaviour becomes a ritual over time for many, Drinkwater portrays the beauty and peacefulness of this, the things we miss when performing these behaviours that at the time may seem both normal and mundane or erratic and nonsensical to others.
Inspired by nature both human and other wise, the work brings to life the senses, making the audience think about their own escapes and behaviour. The work looks at how we as human beings all have our own way of coping with the society we live in and hopes to bring these thoughts to a contemporary and sometimes conceptual end.
Alongside her Fine Art practice Drinkwater is interested in Art Audiences and how they are affected by the political & economic climates, as well as the study of the Arts from the Renaissance period. She hopes to pursue a career working for a large gallery or museum after completing a Master’s degree and a PHD in Art History.
Inspired by nature both human and other wise, the work brings to life the senses, making the audience think about their own escapes and behaviour. The work looks at how we as human beings all have our own way of coping with the society we live in and hopes to bring these thoughts to a contemporary and sometimes conceptual end.
Alongside her Fine Art practice Drinkwater is interested in Art Audiences and how they are affected by the political & economic climates, as well as the study of the Arts from the Renaissance period. She hopes to pursue a career working for a large gallery or museum after completing a Master’s degree and a PHD in Art History.
My work focuses on the idea of a restricted Eden, our own little haven that we can’t quite reach, that thing that we all dream of having one day that keeps us going, keeps us grinding for the future. It will take the shape of an installation piece using natural elements such as plants and flowers. The place in the church I have chosen restricts the viewer from reaching the installation, a natural Eden, a garden,Howard W. Campbell Jr’s own little piece of hope that he himself can only look out over, never enter. "There was one pleasant thing about my ratty attic: the back window of it overlooked a little private park, a little Eden formed by joined back yards. That park, that Eden, was walled off from the streets by houses on all sides." - Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut |