It’s the last weekend to see my solo show Hot Mess
@stockroomkyneton the exhibition finishes tomorrow Sunday 19 April.
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A big heartfelt thanks to all who have made it down. It was a big juggle to make a body of work while wrangling a non stop toddler. It’s been an epic journey.
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PIP RYAN
Hot mess
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What happens when you don’t sleep for two years? You begin to live in a world that is in-between, where time moves painfully slow and impossibly fast all at once, where you are never fully awake or fully asleep. When you don’t sleep for two years, you don’t simply become tired, you become hollow.
Hot Mess is a new body of work, which includes sculptures and works on paper. These works grew out of a period of rupture, taking inspiration from the physical and psychological landscape of postpartum delirium.
After giving birth, I found myself inhabiting a body that felt both ravaged and newly formed.
Working intuitively, the figures I’ve created feel as if they are becoming something, or perhaps are coming undone, humorous, tender, grotesque and absurd.
Through these works I want to explore transformation not as a clean transition but as something messy, bodily, and unfettered.
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Pictures 1. Penleigh with ‘Sad Sausage’, 2026
plaster, synthetic polymer, resin
80 x 15 x 95 cm
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2 and 3. Big Gold Boobies, 2026
foam, resin, imitation gold leaf
52 x 33 x 58 cm (left boob)
52 x 30 x 68 cm (right boob)
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4. Sausage Snake, 2026
watercolour, gouache, pencil on paper, framed with non-reflective glass
12.5 x 7.5 cm
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5. Cave Head 1, 2026
watercolour, gouache, pencil on paper, 22k gold leaf, framed with non-reflective glass
12.5 x 7.5 cm
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6. Crab and Sun, 2026
watercolour, gouache, pencil on paper, 22k gold leaf, framed with non-reflective glass
12.5 x 7.5 cm
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Cheeky Devil, 2026
watercolour, gouache, pencil on paper, framed with non-reflective glass
12.5 x 7.5 cm
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