Kate Phillips
b.1965, Brighton, UK, Lives & works in Brighton, UK.
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Kate Phillips is a self-taught artist, having rejected what she saw as the strictures of formal art training and production early on in order to develop an authentic artistic language. She has been practicing art professionally since 2014 after gaining a BA Hons degree in Humanities with Art History with The Open University. Her creative output is predominantly sculptural and installation based, often playing with scale to destabilise and to subvert. She employs a wide variety of materials and processes, and is also interested in the part intuition and serendipity play in the making of art. Her intention is to explore our complex fears and the preconceptions and misconceptions we face daily to enable a greater understanding.
By working primarily with found objects and materials Kate Phillips draws on and creates a language of things, building layered, often uncomfortable, narratives to say the unsayable, but to also glimpse the very essence of these things, and show the latent potential for renewal their transformation can hold.
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" I have always had a relationship with the wider world through playing with materials, it was, and is, how I attempt to traverse an often inexplicable and difficult terrain... so I arrived at making art inevitably.
My starting point is always the personal, though this intrinsically becomes the universal by entering into a dialogue with the, often familiar, object; by animating into thought the inanimate and making a language where one did not exist or was found to be inadequate."
CV
Education
1994 - 2000 BA (Hons) Humanities with Art History, Open University
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Exhibitions, Events & Festivals
2025 - Growing Season pt 2. Coven Collective, Lewisham Arthouse, London, UK
2024 - The Hunting Of The Wren. Capital House, ArtHouse Jersey, CI
2024 - The Sausage Factory. Gallery Lock In, Brighton,UK
2024 - Growing Season pt 1. (Group Show) Coven Collective, Lewisham, UK
2024 - Hallway. Brighton,UK
2024 - Phony Collective. (Group Show) Gallery Lock In , Brighton, UK
2023 - The Aurelian. Greve de Lecq Barracks, ArtHouse Jersey, Channel Islands
2023 - The Aurelian. Rybka, Brighton, UK
2023 - Resonate. Treadgolds, Portsmouth, UK
2023 - A Drink With Mother. Rybka, Brighton, UK
2023 - Documents. (Group Show) Gallery Dodo, Brighton
2023 - Resonate. Storehouse no 9, Historic Dockyards, Portsmouth
2022 - Recollect. Capital House, ArtHouse Jersey, Channel Islands
2022 - Memory Bar. Capital House, ArtHouse Jersey, Channel Islands
2021 - Repositorium. Frequency Festival of Digital Culture, Lincoln, UK
2020 - The Great Leveller. Sweet 'Arts online exhibition
2020 - Memory Box. ArtHouse Jersey, Channel Islands
2019 - Memory Bar. Society of Cocktails, Brighton, UK
2019 - Subterranean II. (Group Show) Artists Open House Festival, Brighton, UK
2018 - Subterranean. ( Group Show) Artists Open House Festival, Brighton, UK
2017 - The Melancholy Way. Open House, Brighton, UK
2015 - Bed of Roses. Open House, Brighton, UK
2014 - Self, Contained. Salvage, Brighton, UK
2014 - Creepy. Green Door Store, Brighton, UK
Talks & Blogs
2024 - The Hunting of the Wren (filmed interview) ArtHouse Jersey
2024 - Past Makes Future (blog for Guildhall, Portsmouth)
2024 - PAST MAKES FUTURE ( Micro-conference) Guildhall, Portsmouth
2023 - Cocktails As Theatre (Talk) Exploding Appendix, Brighton
2022 - The Evolution of Recollect (Talk) ArtHouse Jersey, Channel Islands
2022 - The Joy of Collaboration (Blog)
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Residencies
2022 - Memory Residency - led by Thomas Buckley (Arts Council funded at ArtHouse Jersey)
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