Hipkiss is the pseudonym of artist couple Alpha and Christopher Mason (b. 1964, United Kingdom), who are known for their collaborative and visionary drawings of vast landscapes and renderings of plants, insects, and birds. Working with a mixed media technique incorporating graphite, silver ink, and metallic leaf, their predominantly monochromatic works on paper and expanded book forms broaden the recorded histories of the natural world and chart the environmental legacies of human activity. Depicting images of a utopic future, their drawings pay tribute to the natural world and envision a landscape animated by a rewilded nature. Hipkiss is represented in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Cindy Sherman, Rudolf Zwirner, FRAC Picardie, FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, The Kupferstichkabinett, Antoine de Galbert, and The Whitworth, among others. A two-time recipient of aid from the DRAC Occitanie and four-time grantee of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Hipkiss has been exhibited internationally, with notable exhibitions at The Drawing Center, La Maison Rouge, David Zwirner, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, La Caixa, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Tate Britain, Whitechapel, and New Museum, among others. In 2001, they emigrated to France and settled, five years later, on a nature reserve in the rural southwest of the country, where they continue to live and work.
