{"id":928,"date":"2014-11-22T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T12:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/?p=928"},"modified":"2014-11-22T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T12:36:07","slug":"screen-pip-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"SCREEN : Pip Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-930\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Artificialintelligence-dickens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-930\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Artificialintelligence-dickens-446x428.jpg\" alt=\"Artificial Intelligence from the SCREEN series of paintings. copyright Pip Dickens\" width=\"446\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Artificialintelligence-dickens-446x428.jpg 446w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Artificialintelligence-dickens-211x203.jpg 211w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Artificialintelligence-dickens-300x287.jpg 300w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Artificialintelligence-dickens-700x671.jpg 700w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Artificialintelligence-dickens-32x32.jpg 32w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Artificialintelligence-dickens.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artificial Intelligence from the SCREEN series of paintings. copyright Pip Dickens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>PIP DICKENS \u2011SCREEN<br>A solo exhibition of new works plus selected works from the SHIBUSA series of paintings<\/h2>\n<p>Rugby Art Gallery <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span>&nbsp;Museum &nbsp;|29 June \u2014 31 August&nbsp;2013<\/p>\n<h6>SCREEN is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and is Part of the Rugby Festival of Culture<\/h6>\n<p>A substantial solo exhibition of over 35 paintings from the SCREEN &nbsp;and SHIBUSA series.<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous definitions of what a&nbsp;screen is: a&nbsp;protective device, a&nbsp;defence play in sport, a&nbsp;military tactic, a&nbsp;substrate upon which to project light or film upon and so on. There are, too, other sources of information gathered along the way toward this solo exhibition \u2014 the Japanese screen for example, which seemed to chime with the subject matter. Another important discovery was the 14<sup class=\"ordinal\">th<\/sup> Century Italian \u2018fenestre impannate\u2019, or \u2018curtained window\u2019. This was, essentially, a&nbsp;wooden frame stretched with canvas and soaked in oil and then inserted into openings in a&nbsp;domestic wall (the option of glass being financially prohibitive for most people). This intrigues me \u2014 we often think of windows as providing us with an open and clear aspect upon the world. In the case of the fenestre impannate no such clarity of vision is possible given that the canvas is a&nbsp;dense material and, once soaked in oil, would result (at best) in a&nbsp;form of light diffusion. The only visual information received would be a&nbsp;rather opaque and shadowy \u2018flicker\u2019 depending on external movement and light values.<\/p>\n<p>When one considers a&nbsp;screen in the contemporary sense we might imagine film, cinema, television and projection devices. My enduring interest in cinema and cinematic technology permeates these works, with particular recognition of reportage (The Telegraph: December 2011)<em> \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/film\/film-news\/8975284\/Hollywood-says-goodbye-to-celluloid.html\">Hollywood Says Goodbye to Celluloid<\/a>\u2019<\/em>) that from the end of 2013 Hollywood will, in the main, be going digital. The physical, photochemical substance of celluloid and the magical, inventive ways in which directors have exploited this medium may soon become extinct after 120&nbsp;years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-933\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pipdickens-screen-vignette.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-933\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pipdickens-screen-vignette-430x428.gif\" alt=\"Vignette\/DreamScene,56 cm x 56 cm, oil on canvas, 2013. Copyright Pip Dickens\" width=\"430\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pipdickens-screen-vignette-430x428.gif 430w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pipdickens-screen-vignette-150x150.gif 150w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pipdickens-screen-vignette-204x203.gif 204w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pipdickens-screen-vignette-268x268.gif 268w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pipdickens-screen-vignette-32x32.gif 32w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pipdickens-screen-vignette-64x64.gif 64w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pipdickens-screen-vignette-96x96.gif 96w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pipdickens-screen-vignette-128x128.gif 128w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pipdickens-screen-vignette-120x120.gif 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vignette\/DreamScene,56&nbsp;cm x&nbsp;56&nbsp;cm, oil on canvas, 2013. Copyright Pip Dickens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The works in this exhibition are the beginning of a&nbsp;prolonged exploration into the magic of film through painting and hold a&nbsp;mirror, too, to the magic of painting itself.<\/p>\n<p>Catalogue&nbsp;ISBN 978\u22120\u22129550829\u22126\u22122. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pip-dickens.com\/RAGM_PD_Screen.pdf\">PDF Available&nbsp;here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; PIP DICKENS \u2011SCREENA solo exhibition of new works plus selected works from the SHIBUSA series of paintings Rugby Art Gallery <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span>&nbsp;Museum &nbsp;|29 June \u2014 31 August&nbsp;2013 SCREEN is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and is Part of the Rugby Festival of Culture&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[125,89,90,88],"coauthors":[33],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition-research","tag-painting","tag-rugby-art-gallery-museum","tag-the-screen","tag-cinema","post_format-post-format-image","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}