Pippa Bloom’s tactile works explore the intersection between form, medium, and meaning. She focuses on art as a sensory experience through spoken word, ceramics, and finger painting. The physicality of clay and emphasis through colour and touch is a consistent theme throughout her practice that explores her relationship with her body as a chronically ill disabled woman, who has experienced fluctuating sight loss and visual impairment since childhood. Bloom’s process often involves working through touch, grounded by working with her hands.

Bloom’s ceramic works have evolved into interactive instillations, focusing on accessibility where the ability to feel or hear the work is just as, if not more relevant than the visual experience. Her work evokes lifelong memories and reflections of hospital walls; a white cane clutched in one hand, bruised from IV needles and blood tests, and her mother’s hand in the other, squeezing tightly.