Bev Pike

Grottesque,[1] her current work on climate catastrophe, is a series of interconnected underground sanctuaries based on seventeenth century English shell grottos.

In the publication for the 2018–2020 Canadian tour, the Dunlop Art Gallery's Assistant Curator Blair Fornwald analysed the gouaches on paper: "...lumpen bezoars of bedclothes, knitwear, yarn, and fabric coalesce into compositions resembling quasi-landscapes, details from domestic spaces, and the cavernous fleshy interiors of the body."

Museum London's Curator/Director Cassandra Getty wrote in their publication, "Evocative titles like Cavernous Sun Parlour, Buried Dance Pavilion, and Subterranean Day Spa suggest that these spaces comprise the leisure sites of a new underground civilization."

In her June 2018 Border Crossings review, Sandee Moore called this work "...a tour de force of demented whimsy..." Curator Mary Reid,[3] described the earlier Hysteria Chronicles[4] paintings as, "mountainous bundles of clothing...creating a visual topography of overlapping social histories and constructions of gender.

Her videotapes, distributed by Video Pool Media Arts Centre, include Agony Aunt Tarot (2015) about organising women and Suffragette Sight Gags (2004) satirizing collective action.