Philippa is interested in art as a social tool that encourages and creates community.  She focuses primarily on a woman's experience of life.  She celebrates the power of craft and immerses herself in art that highlights the pivotal role of creativity in a woman's life.  Philippa is interested in the manner bodies reflect the pain and joy of lives and see the body as a representation of experience.

She was born in Uganda, grew up in South Africa and now lives in the UK.  She make art about women. 

'Art can give the viewer a space to contemplate, a place where all senses are brought to bear and emotions are unbounded.  I use the space to question society’s imposed constraint that women should be accepting of emotion and physical pain.  I believe that to see that pain imagined is cathartic.  The art becomes a crucible of experience that can be shared. '