Gallery Statement

This gallery statement will be presented alongside my work at the exhibitions. Here it is so far.


Pip Preece – ‘Facebook Image1’, ‘Facebook Image 2’, ‘Facebook Image 3’.

Pip Preece was shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Academy A-level Summer Exhibition Online with ‘Relaxing Dancer’.

This current series explores how the advent of social networking and online communication affects the depiction of ‘friendships’. It alludes to the lack of genuine contact within on-screen relationships and the devaluing of the term ‘friendship’ in the context of social networking sites. Facebook images have been selected from one individual to demonstrate how this medium provides the facility to promote and portray oneself by editing the narrative of true life into a virtual reality. The contrived compositions highlight this process.

The innovative layering of canvases reflects the detachment and overstated representation of relationships and situations. The ‘Multicanvas’ compositions are intended to reference the tagging process however on another level they denote the artificiality of the situation and distancing and solitude of the subjects.



I hope this explains what I am doing within the context of both the 'Relationships' and the 'So This Is Permenace' exhibitions. It may need tweaking for the latter.