Phil Hackett

Fine Artist & Curator:

Hackett’s work mainly orbits the figurative and landscape or the figurative as landscape, focusing on the use of negative space. Process driven, intervention and appropriation run through his work, the choices made during the making are as important as the work created. Subsequently his practice can lead to working in paint, print, projection, multi-media and sculpture.

An award-winning advocate of art, heritage, culture and tourism, he has managed and developed hundreds of cultural visitor attractions across England throughout his career.

Born in Leicester he has lived and worked in Nottingham, Birmingham, Northampton, Bristol, London, Cambridge, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Royal Leamington Spa, Farnham and Hinckley; he now lives and works back in the city of Leicester managing the flagship New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, curating the annual L.O.V.E. Art the Leicester Open Variant Exhibition and making and exhibiting his art from the exciting artist studios at StudionAme.

BA (Hons) in Fine Art – De Montfort University
C of HE in Fine Art – University for the Creative Arts
BA (Hons) in Media, Film & Photography - De Montfort University

Solo Exhibitions:
Media(n) Views - LCB Depot - 2017
Public Views – Mill Studios - 2016
Public Views – Art Factory – 2015/16
Private Views – Art Factory – 2015
Beneath the Surface – Mill Studios – 2014/15
AfterMichaelMandiberg.com - web site - 2014
Retrospective 9 – The Case Gallery – 2014

Group Exhibitions:
In Another Place - Leicester Print Workshop - CVAN - 2018
Brief Encounters - University of Leicester - Residency - British Science Week - 2018
International Postcard Show - Surface Gallery - 2018
Art Lending Library - Walker & Bromwich - The Gallery - 2017/18
L.O.V.E. Art 2017/18 - New Walk Museum & Art Gallery - 2017/18
Permanent Fixture - Gujiko Gallery - Leicester Art Week - 2017
Crossed Lines - LCB Depot - 2017
Steep Learning - Curve - 2017
Staircase - Vijay Patel - De Montfort University - 2017
StudionAme Open Studios - StudionAme - 2016
Leicester Summer Art Trail - New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, StudionAme, LCB Depot - 2016
Degree Show- De Montfort University – 2016
Landscapes – Fusion Art Gallery – 2016
L.O.V.E. Art 2016 – Arts Council Funded – Handmade Festival – O2 Academy – 2016
Figures & Faces – Fusion Art Gallery – 2016
Open 27 – New Walk Museum & Art Gallery – 2016
Expect the Unexpected –...