Pippa Thomas

Works:

Arboreal 2025 – lotta paper, pastel, charcoal, paraffin wax, copper, cinnamon, waxed cotton thread

Nourishing spoils (forensic series) 2025 – Soy wax, sand, lotta paper, pastel, steel

Oak chalice 2026 – carved paraffin wax and cinnamon

Palm’s eye 2026 – carved paraffin wax and cinnamon

Pilgrimage scythe / hill of crosses 2025 – steel rebar, soy wax, paraffin wax, waxed cotton thread, brass swarf

Works part of Death by Landscape, duo show with Kate Holford. Curated by and shown at 16 Collective 2026 and supported by Glasgow Life Arts Development Scheme

Related reading

Etel Adnan, Sea and Fog (2012)

John Berger, “Stones (Palestine, June 2003)” In: Landscapes: John Berger on Art (2018)

Andrea Brady, “Drone Poetics” In: New Formations (Death and the Contemporary) 89 (2016)

Hélène Cixous, “Without end, no, State of drawingness, no, rather: The Executioner’s taking off” In: Stigmata (2005)

Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey (2024)

Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004)

Anselm Franke, “The Forensic Scenography” In: Forensis – Forensic Architecture (2014)

Isabella Hammad, Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (2024)

Daisy Johnson, Fen (2016)

Monya Riachi “On the Poetics of the Plastic Bag” MFA thesis, The Glasgow School of Art (2023)

Jacqueline Rose, Women in Dark Times (2014)

Irene Sola, When I Sing Mountains Dance (2019)

Elvia Wilk, Death by Landscape (2022)