Tom Phillips b. 1937 (BAA 1966-67) Born in London. 1957-60 St Catherine’s College, Oxford, (Degree in Anglo-Saxon Literature). 1961-63 Camberwell School of Art. 1964 exhibited Young Contemporaries; 1965 one-man exhibition AIA Gallery. While at BAA taught painting also worked with music department. 1970 one-man exhibition Angela Flowers Gallery and frequent exhibitions to present; 1971 exhibited Venice Biennale; 1971 published Trailer (Edition Hansjorg Mayer) and first two volumes A Humument (Tetrad Press), final volume of the latter published 1976. 1973 retrospective Marlborough Graphics. exhibited La Peinture Anglaise d’Aujourd’hui, Musée d’Art Moderne de Ia Ville de Paris; premiere of his opera Irma. Many subsequent group exhibitions, national and international, including: 1976 Arte Inglese Oggi. Palazzo Reale, Milan; retrospective Serpentine Gallery (Arts Council), same year; 1977 exhibited British Painting 1952-77. Royal Academy of Arts. 1977-83 worked on publication of Dante’s Inferno. 1978 one-man exhibition Lefevre Gallery, New York; Further one-man exhibitions include Waddington Gallery. 1982 and 1983; Turnpike Gallery, Manchester. and Fifty Years of Tom Phillips, Angela Flowers Gallery, 1987. Exhibited New Faces at the National Portrait Gallery same year; 1988/89 Tom Phillips, Portraits of Iris Murdoch (touring exhibition organized by The National Portrait Gallery. 86 A Humument - version 11 of page 51 1976 silkscreen print. 33/75 30 x 2I inches signed printed by John Vince |