Phil Longhurst

Born England 1959, lives and practices in East Anglia.
Currently active with sculpture and installations, but also painting, drawing, and writing.

The material characteristics are central to form and content, as process invites responses, as a 'dialogue' between artist and media throughout the making.

Concepts explore our phenomenolgical experience of 'being' in the world, how we interact with environments, objects, and time. The impact of consumerism as a specific social and material phenomenon is often 'in the mix' and leaning towards Constructivism.

Studio practice is integral and essential to informing the work, with value given to experimenting at the workbench. 'Found' materials, the discarded 'collateral' of society, are often the dots that will be joined, that can result in an evocation of post-industrial wilderness.

A fascination with natural processes of decay, set against mankind's' persistent attempts to 'better' them, and endure through manufacturing engineered constructs and relentless hard labours, sets the central dynamic that pervades this work.

UCC, Colchester. BA Hons Fine Art, 2013 - 2017

Colchester Institute. DipHE Counselling Studies, 2008-2012

UCL London. MSc Telecommunication Studies, 2006-2010

'Collateral', The Minories Colchester. April 2016

Opening Show, Mother Studios (Essex). December 2015

Open Exhibition, FIrstsite, Colchester. October 2015

'Allocated Orange', residency and group exhibition, FIrstsite, Colchester. October 2015

'Touching the Tide', Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh. September 2015

'Exploring the Boundaries', The Library, Colchester. September 2015

'Objects of the Room', residency and show, The Waiting Room, Colchester. July 2015

'I am Essex', University of Essex, Colchester. October 2015

'Rhizome', The Minories, Colchester. April 2015

'Alchemy 5', The Old Police Station, Colchester. April 2015

'Open 15', The Old Police Station, Colchester. January 2015

Hyperdrawing - Draw-slam, The Waiting Room, Colchester. November 2014

'Chromophobia', The Hay Gallery, Colchester. May 2014

Ipswich Art Society Open, Waterfront Gallery, UCS, Ipswich. August 2013