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Pippa Charlesworth is a site-specific artist exploring what materials remember and what history conceals.

Materials & methods

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A crease in a blueprint records how it was stored. A plaster cast preserves the memory of what it covered. A photograph becomes a textile, carrying its history into the weave. The work begins with places, and with what they leave behind.

Let’s work together

Open to commissions, residencies, exhibitions, and collaborative projects.

pippa@pippacharlesworth.com

@pippacharlesworth

Selected work

The curved brick casemate façade of Fort Gilkicker

Fort Gilkicker

Material archive

The empty upper floor of Storehouse 9, timber columns and beams receding into the space

Spatial Fragments

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Residency

A long framed panel of paint-chart segments, each carrying a small LEGO piece, resting on a trestle table

Bridewell Magistrates Court

Unstable Monuments, Bristol

Plaster forms laid across a 1940s blueprint

Restricted Access

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Residency

A white architectural model of Boathouse 5 on the floorboards of Storehouse 9, lit by tall windows

Light and Trace

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Residency

Four printed textile panels hung on iron brackets in a whitewashed brick vault

Woven Narratives

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Residency

The entrance signage at 45 Park Lane, London

45 Park Lane

Value, ownership, and aspiration

Spoil heaps of discarded brick at the works, kiln stack beyond

Wienerberger Brickworks

Ewhurst Residency

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