Amy Pierpoint

25.12.85/nottingham/5'2/34.25.36/left handed/dyslexic/blonde/grey eyes/pouty/how exciting.

And when I was born I came out of the womb clutching a pencil and a sketch pad, Ive still got them somewhere. And although over the years my passion for drawing waned, my fervour for installation and sculpture flourished and my talent bloomed. Or so Id hope to think.
And I dont like to be tied down to subject matter or ways of thinking. So I threw all my string away. And although I dont like to be tied down, I do find myself swimming through re-occurring themes, loosely based around: absence and presence, basic human emotions and creating an experience for the, sometimes unsuspecting, viewer. And I am concerned with creating mental acrobatics. I want your mind to summersault through a range of prerequisite emotions and actions. I want my work to trigger the laughter switch in your brain before your conscience and morality comes into play, and you quickly reel in that scoff that you oh so quickly spat out.
And my practice has never been capricious; every detail is picked over, (like a crisis has ensued.) Until everything is perfect, perfectly idiosyncratic
And recently Ive become interested in subverting the notion of art, t...

nottingham trent university - ba(hons)fine art. goldsmiths college mfa fine art

South Nottingham College sex und salami + easy money 2005South Nottingham College and its black and its white + emotional baggage 2005South Nottingham College foundation show - Do I scream in a language you dont understand? 2005Nottingham Trent University cats 2005Nottingham Trent University and you changed my life 2006Surface gallery Nottingham postcard show 4 postcards 2006Russell galleries Nottingham painting show various works 2006 Nottingham Trent University other peoples lives 2007The art organisation Nottingham S.L.U.T show safehouse duvet coat + and then + as now + and you say sad tragic with such ease + the beautiful mess + lets just paint you a pretty face 2007Russell galleries Nottingham safehouse duvet coat 2007Taties grotto Nottingham the beautiful mess - 2007Nottingham Trent university death of a painter 2008The art organisation Nottingham deadpan show death of a painter - 2008Nottingham Trent university Mark Rothko and a nice chianti 2008backlit nottingham - 'the micaculous becoming and the death of vanity' solo show. 2008 backlit nottingham 'black and white' group show, lampooning the lampooned 2009 wolstenh...