Phillip Reeves
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Phillip Reeves, UFO, 20234,000.00
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Phillip Reeves, Estuary, 20224,000.00
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Phillip Reeves, Igloo, 20224,000.00
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Phillip Reeves, Two Smokers, 20224,000.00
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Phillip Reeves, Crocodiles Dressed As Pandas, 2021900.00
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Phillip Reeves, Invisible Mending, 20213,000.00
Things That Are Good
Chance and Consequence
Pigs
The Aztecs / Ancient Egypt
Japanese Consumer Packaging and Fonts
Urban Dérive
Viscosity of Paint and Other Fluids
Myth Building and Lies
Arcane Rituals
Beekeepers
The Thrill of The Chase
Beauty – but more so beauty which is in some way spoiled - Wabi-sabi
The Occult
Costumes / Clothing / Shoes
Machines and The Speed of Industry
Traveling for a very long time to do something special for a single moment -Sentiment
Grubby Interiors
Abandoned Relics
Tropics and Tundra / Voids and Expansive Space / New Frontiers and Plateaus
Irony and The Bitter Sweet
Snowmen
I work primarily with stories and narratives and have become increasingly interested in how clothing can become a costume for a character to be recognised in and reacted to according to predetermined behavioral tropes within a scenario. Taking the psychology of fashion as an undercurrent, I feature people and objects in works multiple times, seeing them as recurring characters on different sets perhaps akin to a time traveling soap opera.
I like to produce work about ideas I hear or things I read, especially stories. If the stories have been falsely elaborated - then I like them even more. The idea of making a record of history or a third hand account perhaps wayward from the truth interests me - but not with all my works. Some of the works are a private joke.
Born in Surrey, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
EDUCATION
2020-present Turps Studio Programme
2018 MFA Fine Art Goldsmiths University of London, London
2016 The School of The Damned (Alternative MA Programme)
2007 BA Fine Art - London Metropolitan University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Get Up! Contre Bande, Marseille, France
2019 Sausage Pile Up, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
2014 Paper Walls, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
Abandoned Land: Sharp Continent, Vitrine Gallery, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Woolwhich Contemporary Print Fair
Art Car Boot Fair
Medium Rare, Bermondsey Project Space
2019 Linqua Franca, PQH, Rainbow Wave, Camden, London
RE: Bermondsey Art Group, Southwark Park Gallery, London
BEAM, Greenhaus, Bethnal Green, London
Jealous Art Prize, Jealous East, Shoreditch, London
London Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair, London
Tactile Amnesia, PQH, 15 Bateman St, Soho, London
Art Rooms, Great Portland St, London
2018 Visions at The Nunnery with Bedwyr Williams, Bow Arts Trust, London
The Graduate Art Prize, Herbert Smith Freehills, London
Newhaven Open, UTC, Newhaven
Conspiracy of The Real, Tenderpixel, Cecil Court, London
2017 Et Tu Arte Brut? Andrew Edlin Gallery, Bowery, New York
Sluice Biennial with Hospital Rooms, Bohemia Walk, Hackney, London
The Lynn Painter - Stainers Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London
The Denton Art Prize, One Fleet Place, London
2016 Fantasy, De Flore, Yongsan Gu, Seoul, South Korea
SNAKEHORSEGOATMONKEY, Guest Projects, Yinka Shonibar Studio, London
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2021 Shortlisted - Jackson's Art Prize
2019 Acquisition of 'Gravy Boats' - V & A Museum Permanent Collection
Winner - The Jealous Art Prize
2018-19 Artist in Residence Studio Award - Husk, London
2018 Shortlisted - The Graduate Art Prize
Winner - Wytham Hall Painting Prize, selected by Sasha Craddock
2017 Shortlisted - The Dentons Art Prize 2017, Curated by Niamh White
Selected for The Lynn Painter - Stainers' Prize Exhibition
2014 Artist in Residence at Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva
Artist Scholarship from Canton of Geneva
2012 Elizabeth V. Sullivan Scholarship - The Arts Students League of NY
Artist in Residence at The Arts Students League of NY
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Echoes of Belonging
21 Sep - 2 Oct 2023DAA ART is thrilled to announce the new exhibition “Echoes of Belonging” curated by Vittoria Beltrame at number 99-103 Long Acre, WC2E 9NR, in Covent Garden, Central London.Read more
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Improbable Encounters
Memory, Hybridity, and Displacement 8 Mar - 20 May 2022Our first exhibition aims to create space for new and emerging artists living and working in Iran and the United Kingdom in what we hope will be the first step towards a generative dialogue and critical conversation between the artists in question, as well as the two wider artistic communities. For far too long engagements of this kind have found themselves overshadowed and obscured by high politics, impenetrable borders and media sensationalism.Read more