Pip Culbert
(1938-2016) lived and worked in the United Kingdom
Pip Culbert’s artwork deconstructs everyday fabric objects and pares them down to their essential seams. In this process of reduction, She re-contextualized the object, be it a button-down shirt or a quilt, into a weightless line drawing, still familiar but now freed of its ephemeral limitations. She liberates the confinement prescribed by function and transports the textile into a lyrical, poetic dimension. Her work embraces the minimalist ideal of less is more, reminding us that there are infinite possibilities in the space between the lines.
Pip Culbert was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1938 and attended the Royal College of Art in London, where she graduated in 1961. Culbert has been exhibited at the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa; Fifth Street Gallery, London; Fouladi Projects, San Francisco; and Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand, among others.