Karen Piddington - artist

Following on from my last blog, this week I wanted to talk about a possible shift in awareness that can perhaps be the influence of a...

What is animality? I’ve been grappling with this for many years. ‘Animality’ is an elusive term. It evades attempts at being pinned down...

Someone suggested I might like The Conversation, an online publication discussing diverse stuff affecting our planet. And they were...

Soil, a living breathing matter beneath our feet – like skin, is a precious life giver. It is life. It breathes and has a right to...

There’s a growing number of philosophers and theorists who talk about a need for human beings to reconnect with animality – their...

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files (issue no. 172. Nov 2021) Nick Cave captures his destabilizing experience of 'becoming undone':.. 'Susie...

PhD students at CCW share their research in an exhibition and discussion led by Dr Mo Throp and Dr Stephen Wilson. Practice as research...

This week I discovered the remarkable Patricia Highsmith and her great love of snails... Author Patricia Highsmith kept hundreds of...

18-22 October 2021, The Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art, London. A group of early-stage PhD researchers exhibited together at...

Solo show: 28 October to 1 November 2021 Spacebox Gallery. A shipping container - 8ft x 8ft x 20ft, wood chip walls, ceiling and floor,...

This 12 minute film was compiled from a 9 hour collection of short 8 second clips, using a night vision camera placed in my garden....

I created a body of work using clips from the same performance piece and similar spider clips. These images are of an experiment that's...

Whilst volunteering as a "Lookerer" (assistant shepherd) on chalk land sites around the edges of Brighton and Hove, I utilise these, and...

Untitled (White Spider) was created using two clips from a previous work. I duplicated these clips to form a multiplicity of layers of...

Untitled (Black Spider) is a recent film and sound installation (October 2021). A diptych with no beginning and no end, and located in a...

I volunteer as an assistant shepherd, or Lookerer, working with sheep on downland sites around Brighton and Hove. Here, sheep and ponies...

My art practice is a speculative enquiry into the notion of 'becoming-animal' and animality using film, sound, sculpture and drawing. I...

The nonhuman animal became the focus of my practice in 2008, while undertaking a BA at CSM. I became aware of the 'postmodern animal',...

How becoming-animal can be reimagined by contemporary artists to reconfigure interspecies relationships Through a practice-based...