Karen PiddingtonNov 19, 20212 minDirty stuffSoil, a living breathing matter beneath our feet – like skin, is a precious life giver. It is life. It breathes and has a right to...
Karen PiddingtonNov 12, 20211 minReconnecting with animalityThere’s a growing number of philosophers and theorists who talk about a need for human beings to reconnect with animality – their...
Karen PiddingtonNov 12, 20212 minAnimal alliances. Becoming-undone in domestic spacesNick Cave - The Red Hand Files (issue no. 172. Nov 2021) Nick Cave captures his destabilizing experience of 'becoming undone':.. 'Susie...
Karen PiddingtonNov 8, 20211 minDiscursivity exhibition PhD students at CCW share their research in an exhibition and discussion led by Dr Mo Throp and Dr Stephen Wilson. Practice as research...
Karen PiddingtonNov 8, 20213 minThe Greenhouse Project - Snails This week I discovered the remarkable Patricia Highsmith and her great love of snails... Author Patricia Highsmith kept hundreds of...
Karen PiddingtonNov 8, 20213 minDesire Lines - an exhibition of early stage PhD researchers18-22 October 2021, The Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art, London. A group of early-stage PhD researchers exhibited together at...
Karen PiddingtonNov 7, 20212 minNocturnality - Folkestone Triennial 2021Solo show: 28 October to 1 November 2021 Spacebox Gallery. A shipping container - 8ft x 8ft x 20ft, wood chip walls, ceiling and floor,...
Karen PiddingtonNov 6, 20211 minDuration seriesThis 12 minute film was compiled from a 9 hour collection of short 8 second clips, using a night vision camera placed in my garden....
Karen PiddingtonNov 6, 20211 minSpider series... Green SpiderI created a body of work using clips from the same performance piece and similar spider clips. These images are of an experiment that's...
Karen PiddingtonNov 6, 20212 minAudio perception in nonhuman spacesWhilst volunteering as a "Lookerer" (assistant shepherd) on chalk land sites around the edges of Brighton and Hove, I utilise these, and...
Karen PiddingtonNov 6, 20212 minSpider seriesUntitled (White Spider) was created using two clips from a previous work. I duplicated these clips to form a multiplicity of layers of...
Karen PiddingtonNov 3, 20213 minSpidery influencesUntitled (Black Spider) is a recent film and sound installation (October 2021). A diptych with no beginning and no end, and located in a...
Karen PiddingtonNov 3, 20211 minLookering - Sussex DownsI volunteer as an assistant shepherd, or Lookerer, working with sheep on downland sites around Brighton and Hove. Here, sheep and ponies...
Karen PiddingtonNov 3, 20211 minMy art practiceMy art practice is a speculative enquiry into the notion of 'becoming-animal' and animality using film, sound, sculpture and drawing. I...
Karen PiddingtonNov 3, 20211 minBackgroundThe nonhuman animal became the focus of my practice in 2008, while undertaking a BA at CSM. I became aware of the 'postmodern animal',...
Karen PiddingtonNov 3, 20211 minMy research How becoming-animal can be reimagined by contemporary artists to reconfigure interspecies relationships Through a practice-based...