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Pippa Makgill (New Zealand b.1982) is an Australian based artist with a practice that spans painting and sculpture. She graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in Painting from Elam School of Fine Arts, New Zealand in 2004 and completed a Master of Fine Arts through Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in 2011.

Her work addresses the idea of shifting materiality and the presence of the 'formless' in space. She often apply's the concept of 'fluidity' to her work which captures the idea of gesture within static mediums. Within her work there is an extended consideration to the materiality of subjects and the immersive space that encounter brings. She is compelled by 'edges' and how they can pull on the body's sensual guage of sight, surface and form.