Heather Phillipson is a British artist working with the moving image. A trained violinist and pianist with a parallel practice in poetry, Phillipson combines influences from cinema, literature and the visual arts with what is close at hand, undermining systems of meaning and prescribed associations. In her films, the image is constantly questioned by soundtrack, language and montage.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Why Try To Describe It, Vitrine Gallery, London.
2010 If…, g39, Cardiff
2009 Heather Phillipson: Something is Bound to Happen, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Wales, UK
2009 Heather Phillipson: Formal Incidents, Fashion Space Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 The Stage has Eyes (curated by Edwin Burdis & Alys Williams), ShortWave Cinema / Vitrine Gallery, London
2011 Drawing and the Body, KG52 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 Portmanteau, g39 at Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany
2011 A Dying Artist, ICA, London
2011 3, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
2011 Well, this is embarrassing. Half an hour in 12 episodes, Hollybush Gardens, London
2011 Versuch, exhibition and artists’ journal, curated by Gil Leung (LUX), Hollybush Gardens, London
2010 Last Friday Shorts, TAP, Southend, UK
2010 The Signature of All Things I am Here to Read, Arnolfini, Bristol
2010 XRay, The Perseverance, London
2010 London Short Film Festival, ICA, London
2009 PoetryFilm screening, Curzon Renoir Cinema, London
2009 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space Gallery, London, and touring across UK
2009 FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris
2009 Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London
2009 Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London
2009 Rotoreliefs, Vibe Bar, London
2009 Implant Redux, Royal Horticultural Society of New York, New York, USA
2008 Project, Another Roadside Attraction Gallery, London
2008 Wolstenholme Screenings, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool Biennial
2008 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial and Rochelle School, London
2008 Expo, Sonic Arts Network, The Lighthouse, Brighton
2008 Write Side of the Brain, The Miller, London
2007 Fingerlakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), New York, USA
2007 Salon, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
2006 Mandlehanded, The Tram Depot, London
2006 Projektor, The Cafe Gallery, London
2006 Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London
2006 700 IS Reindeerland, Iceland, New York, Spain, Lithuania, UK, Canada
2006 Bad Drawing, University Galleries on Sycamore, Cincinnati, USA
2005 Directions, Lethaby Gallery, London
PERFORMANCE
2011 What It is Not: New Work UK (LUX touring programme), Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2011 What It is Not: New Work UK (LUX touring programme), Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2011 A Dying Artist, ICA, London
2011 Well, this is embarrassing. Half an hour in 12 episodes, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
2011 Well, this is embarrassing. Half an hour in 12 episodes, Hollybush Gardens gallery, London
2011 BRUDERKRIEGSOUNDSYSTEM, ICA, London
2010 Faber Academy, Faber and Faber, London
2010 Psycho Poetica, Royal Festival Hall, London
2010 Faber New Poets launch, Faber and Faber, London
2010 Octagon Theatre, Bolton, UK
2010 Faber Day, Foyles bookshop, London
ARTIST TALKS
2010 Artist’s talk, Arts Centre Cinema, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
2010 Artist’s talk, University for the Creative Arts, Epsom
2010 Visiting speaker, Bonn University, Germany
2010 Cafe Artistique, in conversation with curator Lisa Le Feuvre, Cardiff Arts Institute, Cardiff
2009 Artist’s presentation, Kingston University, Kingston
2009 Formal Incidents gallery talk, Fashion Space Gallery, London
2008 Keynote speaker, Art/Writing, WIRAD/AHRC-funded Conference, Powys
2008 Forum for Drawing, London College of Fashion, London
2008 Guest Artist presentation, UWIC, Cardiff
2006 Exhibition talk, The Tram Depot, London
2006 Models and Modes of Creative Practice, conference paper, Lancaster University, UK
WORKSHOPS
2010 LUX Critical Forum, LUX, London
2008 Open Screenings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2007 The School of Sound, Southbank, London
RESIDENCIES
2010 Artist in Residence, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
2008 Artist in Residence, London College of Fashion, London
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2010 Psychopoetica, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2010 Psychopoetica, British Film Institute, London
2009 Short film commission, Faber and Faber, London
2008 O, Dreamland – poems, British Film Institute, London
COMPETITIONS, PRIZES & AWARDS
2011 Elephant Trust, new film, bursary
2011 Grants for the Arts award, Arts Council England, UK
2010 Picture This, Virtue and Industry, Bristol
2010 ICA A-Frame Mentoring Progamme, working with Adam Chodzko, ICA, London
2009 Sir Leslie Joseph Young Artist Award, 2009, UK
2009 Creeskide Open Artist Prize, selected by Jenni Lomax, APT Gallery, London
2009 Faber New Poets Award, Faber and Faber, London
2009 Arts Council England Mentoring Award, Donut Press, London
2008 Eric Gregory Poetry Award, Society of Authors, London
2007 Michael Donaghy Poetry Prize, Birkbeck College, London
2004 Seminal 01, Artists’ writing prize, Static Gallery, Liverpool
2004 Fine Art Research Studentship, Middlesex University, London
PUBLICATIONS
2009 Heather Phillipson: Faber New Poets (Faber and Faber, London, 2009)
2009 An Art of Surprise, catalogue essay for Nicky Coutts, VARC
2009 Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Northumberland, Bloodaxe, 2009)
2009 Heather Phillipson: Something is Bound to Happen, exhibition brochure
2009 City State: New London Poetry (London, Penned in the Margins, 2009)
2009 Stop Sharpening Your Knives 3 (S/S/Y/K 3) (London, Eggbox, 2009)
2009 Heather Phillipson: Formal Incidents, exhibition catalogue (London, University of the Arts London, 2009)
2008 Pilgrimage (London, Middlesex University Press, 2006)
2005 Seminal 01 (Liverpool, Static-ops, 2005)
2001 to date, Freelance Exhibition Reviewer
