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Tony Phillips (born 1952) [1] is a British artist and printmaker.
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Tony Phillips (born 1952) [1] is a British artist and printmaker.
Phillips was born in Liverpool in 1952 to an English mother and a Nigerian father. He studied Mural Design at art college in Preston, graduating in 1972. In 1978 he moved to near Shrewsbury, Shropshire and has subsequently moved to Italy. [2] [3]
Phillips' style is figurative and explores history, the built environment and peoples' ways of life. [2] He has used a number of media including oils, pastels and etchings.
His work is held by UK galleries including the University of Liverpool, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Shire Hall Gallery as well as the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Art Council. [4] [ better source needed ] He has also exhibited internationally. [5]
History of the Benin Bronzes (mid 1980s) are among his best known works. They are a series of nine pastel drawings inspired by the British Punitive Expedition to Benin in 1897. [6] The drawings place the bronzes within their social and cultural context. They illustrate twelve events in the capture of the bronzes and their subsequent removal to western museums (such as the British Museum) and show the tension between views of a culture and its artefacts. [2]
Liverpool (1995) is an oil painting where the composition is full of history and socioeconomic themes. The central image is of a massive carved stone lion towering over a child to represent the power of the British empire over its subjects. This is surrounded by depictions of houses and buildings of Liverpool in various states of repair indicating both history and future. The lower third of the painting shows a section of the Liverpool docks walls, source of the city's wealth but also of suffering by slaves, dock workers, emigrants and immigrants. [6]
Liverpool – Growth of a City (2003) is one of his series of etchings using a single plate that is re-worked to produce a series of different images, which is printed as an edition at each stage. The later prints show some of the layers from the earlier versions that can be considered faint, ghostly background. This series of prints shows a back alley in Liverpool 8 and how it changes from the 1890s to the 1980s. The city develops in the background as the ally itself becomes increasingly derelict. [6]
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