UPCOMING EXHIBITION in GALLERY ONE
14 March / 19 April 2026
opening: Saturday 14 March, from 4 pm
PIP RYAN
Hot mess
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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Pip Ryan is an Australian artist based in Narrm/Melbourne. Her practice explores humour, irony and the absurd through drawing, sculpture, installation and video. Her works present a multitude of imagined creatures and characters including hybrid animals, disembodied figures and darkly comical beasts. Ryan is interested in using colour and playful forms to engage with dark and surreal subject matter, exploring the junction between the personal and the imagined world. She also collaborates with her sister Natalie Ryan exhibiting under The Ryan Sisters.
Recent exhibitions include The Devils Cloak at MARS Gallery Melbourne, Flesh Creepers at Hugo Michell Gallery SA, The Grey Zone - Part of NGV design week Artbank, Pick it Till it Bleeds, Stockroom Kyneton, Collaboratory curated by Kent Wilson at Latrobe Art Institute, Self titled exhibition at GoGo Bar, Do Geese See God at Rubicon Ari, Disquiet (Off You) curated by Stephanie Han for Dark MOFO, Gruesome Twosome at Nicholas Projects, Ups and Downs at Stockroom Kyneton, NotFair 2017, Serious Work at Rearview, Maverick curated by Reko Rennie at MCA Artbar, Horror Show at Strange Neighbour and Gippsland Art Gallery, Relive it Again at Daine Singer.
Recent residencies and awards include Bundanon Trust artist in residence, Steeple residency Scotland. Recipient of the Creative Workers in Schools six-month Artist in Residence program. Selected finalist for the Fisher Ghost Art Award 2021, Paul Guest Prize 2020, Selected finalist for National Works on Paper 2020 at MPRG, Selected finalist for Manningham Art Prize 2020, Selected finalist for Deakin Small Sculpture Award 2019, Selected finalist for Darebin Art Prize 2017 and 2019, Australian Post Graduate Award, Signal Screen Commission, National Gallery of Victoria Women’s Association Award, Best Photographic Award at Proud, Best Contemporary Drawing Award VCA.
PIP RYAN
Boobie Ghost, 2026
watercolour, gouache, pencil on paper, framed with non-reflective glass
12.5 x 7.5 cm (paper size)
23 × 18 × 4 cm (frame size)
$ 550
collect from Stockroom in Kyneton (VIC), or we will be in touch to discuss delivery options
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