Philip S Potter

Philip S. Potter began his studio practice in 2001, teaching stone-carving to students with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, and has maintained an active practice ever since. He holds a degree in sculpture from Loughborough College of Art and Design (1995), a Masters of Arts with distinction from Birmingham City University, and a PgCert in Research from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD). He is an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (ARBSA).

With over twenty-five years of experience as a sculptor, teacher, and researcher, Philip now works nationwide from his Midlands base — exhibiting widely, accepting commissions, and delivering public workshops in stone sculpture. His work has been collected internationally, with large-scale pieces shipped to collectors in the United States.

His practice focuses on stone and form. He utilises stone for its resistance, durability and relationship to culture, landscape and body, drawing inspiration from natural and synthetic forms and finding consonances where form follows function — questioning our place in built and natural environments, and disrupting the binary between nature-as-self and nature-as-object.

2012 Certificate to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector. Level 4. Halesowen College
2011 Preparing Postgraduate Researchers for Teaching in Higher Education. Birmingham City University,
2009 Postgraduate Certificate Research Practice in Art, Design and Media. Birmingham City University
2008 MA Fine Art (Distinction) Birmingham City University
1995 BA (Hons) Fine Art (2:1) Loughborough College of Art and Design
1992 National Diploma in foundation studies, Art and Design (Merit): Stourbridge College

1994
MIDART Himley Hall, Staffordshire
1995
Hung Drawn & Quartered,The Custard Factory, Birmingham
MIDART, Himley Hall, Staffordshire
Fresh Art, Business Design Centre, London
Hobby Horse, sited sculpture Dunchurch Park, Warwickshire
1996
MIDART, Himley Hall, Staffordshire
1997
Summer Exhibition, RBSA, Birmingham
WMBC outreach project, Wolverhampton
1998
Annual Prize Exhibition, RBSA, Birmingham
MIDART
Himley Hall, Staffordshire
2001
Faces of Stourbridge,Collaboration with Mike Chase, Arts council Funded, Stourbridge
2002
Summit More, RyeMarket, Stourbridge
2004
Staff Exhibition, Glasshouse College, Stourbridge
2005
Staff Exhibition, Glasshouse College, Stourbridge
2007
Staff Exhibition, Glasshouse College, Stourbridge
2008
Open Exhibition, Volte Gallery, Wolverhampton
MA Show: Boundary Field, BIAD, Margret St, Birmingham City University
2009 /10
Artist in Residence, Volte Gallery Wolverhampton Works included: Decontextual Horizonality
Dominion
Nabors Gas Fire

2010
International Festival of Glass,
The Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge
2012
International Festival of Glass
The Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge
Open Media Exhibition, RBSA, Birmingham
2013
Friends Exhibition, RBSA, Birmingham (FEB)
Prize Exhibition, RBSA, ...