Pippa Hale


Pippa Hale is a contemporary British artist, founder of the Northern Art Prize and co-founder of The Tetley Leeds.

Early life

Pippa studied for a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Warwickshire College of Further Education in Leamington Spa, graduating in 1991 and going on at Leeds University graduating with BA Fine Art in 1996.

Practice

Commissions

In 2019, as part of a joint project developed by Rachel Reeves in partnership with Leeds City Council and Leeds Art University, Hale's work "Ribbons" was commissioned from a shortlist of three other artists to redress the imbalance of women portrayed within the public sphere.

Exhibitions

Charitable work

From 2008 to 2012 Hale was a council member of the Leeds Civic Trust, in the same period she also served as Secretary to the Leeds Visual Arts Forum. In 2015 she stepped down as co-Director of The Tetley and joined the board of trustees of its management company, Leeds Project Space where she served for a further three years, resigning from this role in 2018. She is currently a trustee of the education charity IVE.