Heather Phillipson Geese, 2009
Heather Phillipson Arboriculture, to a Dog, 2009
Heather Phillipson Sometimes Doing Something Leads to Nothing, 2008
Still from DVD.
Heather Phillipson works primarily with moving images. Her work has been profiled on BBC2 television, BBC radio, in Artforum, Frieze and The Guardian.
Phillipson is a classically trained musician with a parallel practice in poetry. She uses conjunctions and disjunctions of image, sound and performance. Her approach, attributable to her cross-media skills and interests, is manifest in works that allow an attunement to the unseen and unheard. The works often invent premises to generate sounds whose relative ordinariness is estranged through the odd circumstances of their making.
Phillipson exhibits nationally and internationally, with solo shows in London and Wales. She has received numerous awards, commissions and residencies, for example the Sir Leslie Joseph Young Artist Award (2009) and Artist in Residence, London College of Fashion (2008-09). She will be Artist in Residence at Aberystwyth Arts Centre in 2010. Recent group shows include: London Short Film Festival (2010); Bloomberg New Contemporaries (Liverpool Biennial and London, 2008); The Jerwood Drawing Prize (London and touring, 2009); FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (Paris, 2009); Creekside Open (selected for an artist’s prize by Jenni Lomax, London, 2009).
Phillipson has read her poetry in venues across the UK and Europe, and has been published widely in magazines and anthologies. She received an Eric Gregory Award (2008) and a Faber New Poets Award (2009).
Heather Phillipson's artist profile on Axis
Lisa Le Feuvre currently lectures on the MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths (University of London). Her curatorial practice operates across the registers of exhibition-making, writing, public speaking and teaching in the University context. Intrinsic to her work and research as a curator is the notion of ‘practice’, a process that interrogates the possibilities of critically engaged curatorial activities.
Later this year Lisa will be curating the British Art Show 7 with Tom Morton. Also forthcoming is the publication she has edited: Failure, Whitechapel Art Gallery / MIT Press.
Lisa Le Feuvre's profile on Goldsmiths website
Lisa's previous writing for the Axis webzine 2005/2006:
