Pippa Thomas is a visual artist based in Glasgow. Her practice focuses on ecology – nature’s resilience and human acts of violence/degradation – as well as historical and contemporary entanglements with womanhood and gender. Drawing, mark-making and recycled material investigations are the foundation of her visual work, with imagery drawn from remembered and imagined forms.
Pippa’s practice often extends into collaborative, research-led and community-based contexts. In 2024, she co-founded Two Isles with ecologist Dr M. Bane, an ongoing project addressing creative and artistic agency in ecological action. Through this partnership, she has delivered workshops and public events for organisations such as the NHS, Design Hopes and The Goethe Institute.
Pippa also works as a Studio Assistant at The Glasgow School of Art and tutors with a community art group in the south of Glasgow. Most recently she has collaborated with artist Kate Holford on a long-term research project examining gender and ecological collapse, culminating in an exhibition Death by Landscape (2026) supported by 16 Collective.
Exhibitions
Death by Landscape duo - 16 Collective 2026 | Glasgow
A Place To Fall Apart solo- New Glasgow Society 2023 | Glasgow John Byrne Award group- Summerhall 2023 | Edinburgh
Tart Factory selected - Tart Gallery 2023 | London Holding Structures, Carrying Sanctuary solo- Stillpoint Spaces 2018 | London Now Falmouth group - Shoreditch Town Hall Basement 2013 | London
Awards/ Residencies/Funding
Creative Lab residency - 16 collective 2025
Found In Our Palms - Linkshouse, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney | September 2024 Creative Scotland Open Fund | 2024 Hope Scott Trust | 2024 John Byrne Award - Shortlisted artist | 2023
Collaborations
Two Isles | Ecology and Creative Practice www.twoislescollab.wordpress.com
Engaging restoratively with nature and sustainable materials with Dr M Bane, Glasgow, 2024
Found In Our Palms | Research collective with R Ord, R Travill, Glasgow 2024
Education
Royal Drawing School | Drawing Intensive 2022 Falmouth University | BA Hons Fine Art 2010 - 2013 Plymouth College of Art and Design | Foundation Diploma Art and Design 2009 - 2010
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