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Poppy Pitt is a practicing artist based in Bristol, UK. Poppy graduated from Goldsmith's University of London in 2006 with an honors degree in Textiles. She is currently working as a visiting artist in universities, colleges and schools.
Poppy's work is concerned with the texture of urban space. She explores urban landscapes and human relationships using many textures of yarns, threads and rope. Poppy works in both 2D and 3D exploring the concepts of mapping, human encounter and urban space, whilst exploring the language of textiles, and line through her chosen medium.
Artists Statement:
'The Body is a constant receiver and giver of information, the spaces that form and change, move and fall between people as they pass each other seem filled with information, with textures, that are evident through our own emotional and physical experience of that space or encounter. The bodies presence creates points on a map, as changing gradients form between each point, a landscape of physical and emotional textures are created.'
The space I describe:
‘time is that which disappears as such in order to make appearance and disappearance, that is events, possible. Its disappearance is twofold: It disappears into events, processes, movements, things, as the mode of their becoming’
Elizabeth Groz: becomings-exploration in time, memory and future [1999]
'...it is being-in-the-world, as the phenomenologists say: at the same time I become in sensation and something arrives through sensation, one through the other, one in the other. And finally it is the same body that gives and receives sensation, that is at the same time object and subject'
Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The logic of sensation [1981], cited in Ronald Bogue, ibid., p. 260
The materials I use:
'The poetics of cloth are composed of folds, fragments and surfaces of infinite complexity. The fragment bears witness to a broken whole; yet it is also a site of uncertainty from which to start over; it is where the mind extends beyond fragile boundaries, beyond frayed and intermediate edges, expanding in the fluidity of the smooth. The surface is a liminal space, both inside and out, a space of encounter.'
Pennina Barnett: folds fragments, surfaces; towards a poetics of cloth; Texture of Memory Poetics of Cloth.,[1999]