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