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Tom Phillips is an internationally recognised artist whose work features in most major museums on both sides of the Atlantic. He is especially well known for his pioneering contribution to the artist’s book, A Humument, which has been continuously in print for 25 years (5th edition Thames & Hudson, 2012); and his publication of Dante’s Inferno. His activities extend into other cultural fields such as TV direction (as co-director of A TV Dante he won the Italia Prize), stage design, exhibition curating and in the realm of music his compositions (including the opera Irma) have been widely performed and issued on CD. His theatre projects include designing The Winter’s Tale for the opening season of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and translating and designing Otello for the ENO in 1998. He designed costumes, props and the set for The Magic Flute at Holland Park Opera in June 2008. Works in public spaces include the Armed Forces Memorial in Westminster Abbey, mosaics in Westminster Cathedral and a railing designed for the Grafton Street Project. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1989 and was Chairman of Exhibitions from 1985 to 2007. He also served as a trustee of both the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, and in 2006 was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford. He was born in South London in 1937 where he still lives and works.
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Tom Phillips RA
Dante's Inferno, Canto X-1-Epicureans
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Tom Phillips RA
A Humument, Here Was A Woman
Epson & silkscreen print
29 x 22 cm
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Tom Phillips RA
Wittgenstein's Dilemma (sold)
silcscreen on acrylic cube
12.7cm
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Tom Phillips RA
South London Dreaming (sold)
acrylic on paper on board
88 x 152 cm
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Tom Phillips RA
Sixteen Appearances Of The Union Jack
silkscreen print
43.5 x 62 cm
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Tom Phillips RA
Raphael Revisited
Epsom and silkscreen print
80.2 x 68 cm
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Tom Phillips RA
Dante's Inferno, Canto XXXiv-4 Book of light
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Tom Phillips RA
South London Dreaming (sold)
silkscreen print
65 x 74.5cm
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 South London Dreaming, GX Gallery, London
2010 Tom Phillips works in 2, 2,5, 3 dimensions, Flowers New York
2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2010 African Goldweights, Barbara Wien Galerie , Berlin
2009 'A Common Reader' Fifty years of textual intercourse, Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock
2008 ‘Anonymous Celebrities’, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead
2007 ‘A Humument’, Keillor Library, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 WORD; IMAGE; ORNAMENT, Flowers Gallery, New York
2001 Drawings of Tom Phillips, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth
1997 60 Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition, Dulwich Picture Gallery and South London Gallery
1993 Tom Phillips Solo Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1989 Solo Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London
1987 British Council Touring Exhhibition to Chile and Jamaica
1985 British Council Touring Exhhibition to Columbia
1984 British Council Touring Exhhibition to Spain
1982 British Council Touring Exhibition to Italy
1979 British Council Touring Exhibition to France
1975 Retrospective, Kunsthalle, Basel
1973 'A Humument', Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1970 Solo Exhibition Tom Phillips, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1965 Tom Phillips Solo Show, Artists International Association Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 ‘The Class of ...’ at Ipswich Art School, Ipswich
2009 Artists and Sitters, Balcony Gallery , National Portrait Gallery, London
2009 The Black Page exhibition, Shandy Hall, Coxwold
2009 1984 at DACS , The Kowalsky Gallery, London
2009 The Uncommon Reader, Garden Gallery of the Oxfordshire Museum, Art in Woodstock, Woodstock
2009 'Inspired', Old Reading Hall, Mitchell Library, Glasgow
2008 Less is More: the Poetics of Erasure, SFU Gallery, Burnaby Campus
2008 Royal Portrait Society Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2008 BP Portrait Award exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London
2008 Blood on Paper, Victoria and Albert Hall, London
2008 ‘Romance’, Kowalsky Gallery, DACS, London
2007 Eye-Music: Klee, Kandinsky and all that Jazz, Pallant House and Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, London
2007 Dante Rediscovered, Dove Cottage, Grasmere
Public Works:
Armed Forces Memorial at Westminster Abbey
John Henry Cardinal Newman (mosaic) at Westminster Cathedral, London
Performance:
John Cage’s 4’ 33”, II Architecture and Music forum, Royal Academy, London
Stage Design:
Mozart's ‘The Magic Flute’, Opera Holland Park, London
‘Othello’, English National Opera, London
Opera:
Heart of Darkness, Royal Opera House, Linbury
Irma
Public Collections:
National Portrait Gallery
Awards:
1969 First prize at The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition
Published Books, Articles, Essays:
The Humument
Vintage People on Photo Postcards
African Goldweight
Tom Phillips' ‘Biography of a Painting I’, Turps Banana painting magazine
Adventures of a Crown
Forms of Translation
The Nature of Ornament: A Summary Treatise, 2002
On Libraries
Optical Magic (Hockney review)
Portraits: Essay from the NPG Catalogue 1989
WAtP: My Father the Boxer
Publications:
‘Printmakers Secrets’ by Anthony Dyson
‘Hybrid Prints’ by Megan Fishpool
Catalogue of exhibition ‘The Uncommon Reader’ The Capilano Review
Review on ‘Heart of darkness’, The Walrus Magazine by Siobhan Roberts
Museum Practice magazine
The Artist's Mother by Margaret Agnes Phillips
Donnish Quixote by Susannah Frankel
How We Met by Brian Eno and Tom Phillips
The Portrait Works: Foreward by John Hayes
The Portrait Works: Preface by Bill Hurrell
Rima and El Greco by Jane Ure-Smith
Sacred & Profane: Introduction by Bill Hurrell
Trick or Treatment by Steve Xerri
Vienna then: Peckham Now!, by N. Rosenthal
WAtP: The Charm of the Ordinary by Kevin Jackson
WAtP: Return to Sender by Matthew Sweet
Wish You Were Here, by Simon Callow
Film:
2007 Concrete, produced and directed by Sara Sackner
Memberships:
Royal Society of Arts
Royal Society of Painter Etchers and Engravers
Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford
Honorary Fellow of Leeds University
Honorary Fellow of London Institute
Honorary Member of the Royal Institute
Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery
Trustee of the British Museum
Curated exhibitions:
Royal Academy’s exhibition 'Africa which traveled to Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin and Guggenheim Museum, New York
Titles:
Commander of the British Empire for services to the Arts
Education:
1961 Camberwell School of Art, London
1957 St Catherine’s College and Ruskin School, Oxford
Teaching experience:
1965- 1972 Wolverhampton Art College, Wolverhampton
1961-1965 Bath Academy of Art, Ipswich
Recording the making of an official portrait as ex-director of the National Portrait Gallery Charles Saumarez-Smith sits for artist trustee Tom Phillips. As the painting progresses, a curious psychodrama develops that reveals the vulnerabilities and vanities of both artist and sitter.
