Philip S Potter

Beginning my career with engineering in the mid 1980's I soon discovered a love of form and materials. In 1995 I gained a degree in sculpture after studying at Loughborough College of Art and Design before working as a boat builder, interior design project manager and Crown Courts administrator. I began my studio practice in 2001 teaching stone-carving to students with Autistic spectrum disorders and have since gained a Masters of Arts with distinction at Birmingham City University where I have taught on the undergraduate program and began a practice led PhD in 2008.
"I utilise a wide variety of elements in my practice, incorporating stone for its resistance, durability and relationship to culture, landscape and body. Drawing inspiration from natural and synthetic forms I am interested in consonances emerging when form follows function. These vernaculars interest me especially when they question our place in environments and disrupt the binary: nature-as-self or nature-as-object."
I am a qualified teacher, sculptor and researcher; with over ten years' experience in the lifelong learning sector, I now exhibit widely, engage in commissions and offer open classes for the public in stone sculpture.

2009 – PhD study: ‘A Radical Horizon: Art Practice, Phenomenology and Environmental Philosophy’ BIAD, Birmingham City University Director of Studies: David Cheeseman – Senior Lecturer, Fine Art. Supervisor: Prof Dr Douglas Burnham, Lecturer in Philosophy, Staffordshire University
2012 Certificate to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector. Level 4. Halesowen College, Tutor: Lynn Pass 2011 Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector. Level 4. Halesowen College, as above
2011 Preparing Postgraduate Researchers for Teaching in Higher Education. Birmingham City University, Tutors: Dr Matt Badcock, Ms Jenny Eland
2009 Postgraduate Certificate Research Practice in Art, Design and Media. Birmingham City University Tutors: Prof Dr...

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, Bir...