michael phillipson

Very pleased that Theo Cowley is including my ‘Art’s Body’ audio-recording , featuring Jon Thompson, in a Luxus Extension event in Brussels celebrating Jon’s life and contribution to the arts on Friday, June 30th. Michael Phillipson/Jon Thompson, Amelia Saul/Claude Wampler, Axelle Stiefel  Luxus Extension Art’s Body This event brings together works made between artists for particular […]

    Delighted to be participating in The London Group’s ‘Sculpture Trail’ in the village of Shoreham on June 17th and 18th! Here are images of four of the nine objects I will be placing in a lovely garden bordered by the River Darenth.                       […]

                                 ‘sisyphean’, (hazel, toy, paintbrush, can, 216cm x 33cm x 28cm, 2016) was my contribution to The London Group Annual Members’ Exhibition at the Cello Factory, London, October, 2016.

  Alessandro Farrattini’s short documentary film about the ‘Combines’ exhibition can be seen on YouTube Each exhibitor is showing three pieces together with a photograph. Here’s the text that I have written to accompany the exhibition, followed by images of my three exhibited pieces and my photo (‘At the Studio’s Threshold’) with its accompanying text.   RECOMBINING […]

  A fellow member of The London Group, the painter and multi-media artist Suzan Swale, has a retrospective under the title ‘Tell Me No More Lies’ at the Cello Factory, 33-34, Cornwall Road, London, SE1 8TJ, 11th-17th November, 2015, 2-6pm. The image on the show’s publicity card is of her installation ‘La Reine Margot’, (2012). […]

I exhibited ‘white noise broadband’ (mixed media on paper, 60cm x 40cm) in Part 1 of ‘The London Group Open 2015’ exhibition at The Cello Factory, 33-34, Cornwall Road, London SE1 (13th-23rd October). Here, in addition, is the essay I wrote for the catalogue documenting Parts 1 and 2 of the exhibition.   Detached and […]

‘To Draw: Drawing Draws Draward’ In this collection of readings, edited by Sawdon and Marshall, I offer an expanded sense of drawing as a site of embodiment, language and breath. Works by Giuseppe Penone, Susan Skingle, Shirazeh Houshiary, Heather Phillipson, Jordan McKenzie and others are considered in relation to the process of drawing. Publisher link Amazon link […]

let the brittle bits 8 – 31 May 2015 a small selection of my paintings and drawings are included in this group show together with works by Heather Phillipson Rachel Crummey Richard Müller and Susan Sluglett the gallery is open Saturdays 12 – 8 or by appointment MilMa 154 Ilderton Road London SE 15 1NT +44 20 […]