Pippa El-Kadhi Brown

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    Pippa El-Kadhi Brown

    Pippa El-Kadhi Brown is a London-based artist with British and Iraqi heritage. 

     

    She graduated from MA Painting at the Royal College of Art (2022), after studying BA Painting at the University of Brighton, School of Art (2018). 

     

    Volcanic in nature, her paintings gurgle, swell, and spit things up from beneath. Playing with the mind’s eye as a tool of enquiry, Pippa uses painting as a form of excavation by pulling sensation from below the surface and translating the human psyche into dense, dreamlike terrains; otherworlds which are drunk on the spirit of childhood and romanced by the knotty logic of dreams. 

     

    She builds layered dancing dreamscapes where the unconscious ‘thingness’ of being—grainy textures of clunky video games, faded 90s bedsheets, meteor showers, and the twisting movement of cool air— collapse into one another and erupt. There’s romance, anxiety, irony, humour, and an always-lurking hum of nostalgia.

     

    Pippa was artist-in-residence at Tabari Artspace’s La Serena Residency (Tuscany, 2025). She was also an artist in residence at Palazzo Monti (Brescia, 2025) and was the Freelands Foundation Fellow hosted at Manchester School of Art (Manchester, 2024-2025).

     

    Pippa is a recipient of The Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award (RCA, 2020), The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize (London, 2020), The Organhaus Studio Residency (Chongqing, 2019), The Art Pegazs Taste of Life Award (Riga, 2019) and The Creekside Studio Award (London, 2019).

    EDUCATION

    2020-2022, Royal College of Art, Painting MA
    2015-2018, University of Brighton, School of Art, Painting BA
    2014-2015, UAL Camberwell College of the Arts, Foundation

     

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