JUNE 2006
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Artist_____

John Kippin

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A Well Loved Local Landmark

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www.johnkippin.com

 

 

My practice to date is as an artist and photographer working largely within the subject area of the

landscape. I have used photography to interrogate the constructuction and conception of the

landscape as a palimpsest on which to build ideas around society, politics, economics and culture

as well as offering commentary on our relationships with our environment and surroundings. I am

also interested in history and the representational relationships of photography, memory and

experience. Many of my images incorporate texts within the actual image and on occasion other

elements such as sculpture or sound environments.
Much of my work has involved a dialogue between image and text and I am interested in the ways

that meanings and interpretations can be questioned and developed through the association of
the various elements and layers of the work. I am also interested in working with narrative, sequential

andother display and distribution contexts apart from exhibition such as publication. I am particularly

interested in photography within the context of public art and have worked on a number of public art

projects and commissions.
Audiences and their engagement are a central concern for me and the need for my work to connect

with an audience has been critical in informing the aesthetic strategies that I have followed from my

early billboard projects in the late 80’s through to more recent publishing and exhibition projects.
My work has been published and exhibited widely in the U.K. and overseas, and is represented in

numerous public and private collections. I am interested both in producing work for the gallery and in
working within the broader public domain. I am interested in developing new aesthetic strategies within

which to engage different audiences. I see my practice as being contained within a critical framework

and supported through discourse.
I have presented papers and made presentations to numerous conferences and have produced works

for a broad variety of public art projects.

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                                                                                                                click image for larger view      (440 x 297 mm)