About

Pippa Charlesworth is a site-specific artist working with historic buildings and the stories embedded in their fabric. In close collaboration with conservation architects, heritage specialists, and local communities, she develops research-led projects that document, interpret, and preserve places facing transformation. Her work responds to the architectural details, material traces, and archival histories that define a building’s identity, recording what is easily overlooked before redevelopment alters it irreversibly. Sustainability runs through the work: reusing what a site discards, and treating what already stands as worth keeping.

Process and concept are central. Each project begins with a deep engagement with a specific site: its archives, its materials, its stories. From there it develops through iterative acts of making that distil meaning with each stage. Her interest lies in how objects and surfaces hold the memory of a place, and how small acts of collecting, combining, and photographing can transform them into carriers of meaning. Sculpture, photography, cyanotype, plaster, and textiles are all part of a practice that moves fluidly between disciplines.

Behind the work sit the same questions: how archives are formed, how objects are selected for preservation, how value is assessed, and by whom.