Phil Ashcroft

Phil Ashcroft’s specific form of gestural, emotive abstraction combines flattened out 1980s style art deco and graffiti influences with references to American abstraction which often threaten to overwhelm the upper sections of his canvases.

Finalist John Moores Painting Prize 2014. Works held in public and private collections worldwide, commissions include projects for Aedas, Amnesty International (UK), British Film Institute, Levis, Phantom International, Royal Mail, Sony PSP and Swire Properties (HK).

Ashcroft curated 'London Graphics' at Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London in November 2018.

Studied at Harrow College of Art and Design London and St Martins School of Art London.

'Essential Structures', group show at Gerald Moore Gallery, London (July 2024); 'Common Ground', a three person show at Studio KIND, Barnstaple, Devon, UK (2024).

Solo exhibitions include 'Moonbeams', Bearspace, London (March 2020); 'Fallout', CANAL, London (2016); 'Cave Paintings', Lewisham Arthouse, London (2015); 'Galácticos', Gamma Transport Division, Edinburgh (2013); 'Toxicity', Margaret Harvey Gallery, UH Galleries, St Albans (2006); 'Yeti In Hong Kong', EXIT, Hong Kong (2005); 'Nitro Deluxe', Deptford X, London (2001).

Ashcroft was a finalist in the John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2014), a finalist in the Celeste Art Prize 2007 and selected for Contemporary Art Society’s ARTfutures 2007 and 2005, Bloomberg SPACE, London.