Pippa Bond

Based in Melbourne, Australia, Pippa Bond is an emerging artist-researcher and PhD candidate in the School of Media and Communications at RMIT University. Her current photographic practice is a major part of her research, exploring the intimate and complex relationships we form with domestic spaces and everyday objects. The body of work in development focuses on share houses, socks, wallets and grandmothers’ clothing. As a self-taught photographer, she develops experimental methods that capture the textual resonance of daily life in a flat image. She has exhibited multiple times at Brunswick Street Gallery and has given lectures on photography at RMIT University.

High-Resilience Clutter

Photographic Print, 2025.

21 × 30 cm

$250 framed

Home Spaces

Photographic Print, 2025.

30 × 21 cm

$250 framed

Living Room Touches

Photographic Print, 2025.

21 x 30 cm

$250 framed

This body of work focuses on the materiality of the share house through photography, while also highlighting the tension of the share house being seen as a “temporary” and “impermanent” space. Utilising a plastic frame that is both transparent and reflective. This technique shifts the share house into a mixture of textures, shapes, light, and shadow, changing the way we view familiar elements such as staircases, hanging laundry, curtains, everyday objects, etc. The frame also captures dust, which is the ultimate amalgamation of the share house's materiality, as the dust is made up of everyone and everything in the space, both past and present. The works also incorporate “fridge magnet” poems created from text cut out of Ikea catalogues. Throughout the body of work, the poems focus on the textuality, tensions, and, at times, the absurdity of home spaces. The text is affixed to the physical frame, creating an in-image collage and adding its own material dimension to the images.

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