This place is not a passive landscape
Pippa Healy and Mandy Williams
This place is not a passive landscape unites two artists who animate and transform their experience of place to create emotional and metaphorical landscapes. In Pippa Healy’s photographs different strata of memory, emotion and loss are experienced in the landscapes but are transformed into mysterious and enigmatic places that seek to transcend time and space. In Mandy Williams’ photographs the innocence of the land is questioned. Political narratives combine with the geology of the coastal chalk landscape, creating pathways of dislocation and disruption.
Pippa Healy
Pippa Healy is a photographic artist based in London. She works with both analogue and digital photography, printmaking techniques such as screen-printing and photopolymer and self publishes photobooks and zines. Her practice is primarily diaristic – and is concerned with themes around loss, longing, and grief.
Pippa studied photography at Central St Martins and then studied for an MA in Photographic Studies at University of Westminster. She then expanded her photographic practice with an MA in Printmaking at UAL Camberwell.
Her handmade ‘Zines’, which are often raw, abject and diaristic in style are central to her practice. Her zines are held in the Tate Gallery collection, The Martin Parr Foundation and the MEP in Paris. They are sold at The Photographers Gallery in London and The Royal Photographic Society in Bristol.
She has notably shown her work at Festival Circulations in Paris, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Exposure Festival (Canada) and Format Festival (UK) as well as solo and group exhibitions internationally. She is also a member of several collectives.
Pippa is currently a lecturer in photography. She is also studying for a Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London.
Mandy Williams
Mandy Williams is a photographer, sound and video artist based in London. Since 2016 her projects have focused on English coastal landscapes. She is interested in using them metaphorically - they have become a place for her to explore themes of solitude and grief, and to reflect on contemporary politics and environmental issues.
In her black and white photographs of the coastal chalk landscape in Kent and Sussex she applies graphic elements, cutting up the landscape into shards and splinters of space, shattered and disconnected from where they came. Isolated geologies float in darkness; partial barriers suggest borders that enclose and separate.
Mandy Williams studied History of Art at Warwick University and Communications (Film) at Goldsmith’s College, London. She completed a MA in Photography at the UAL London College of Communication.
She has shown her work in the UK and overseas. Exhibitions include Print Now at London Art Fair, Resonance Open at Raven Row, Disrupted Landscapes at Four Corners, and Earth Photo 2024 at Royal Geographical Society. Her videos have been selected for many film festivals, winning Best Experimental Short in 2021 and Best Director, Documentary Short Film in 2024. She is a member of several collectives.
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