Phil Frankland

Born in 1991. For me, an intimate relationship between the works I produce is very important. The iterative development of my practice allows ideas to gestate and be exposed. I work both with ‘live’ paintings, as well as digital reproductions of these paintings. Once digitally rendered, these print-outs are re-introduced to the process of painting through collage. Tension mounts between the quickness of manipulating collage and the gestation period which painting requires. The simple, almost naïve action of cutting and tearing paper nags at the historically steeped brush mark. The tactility of both mediums is brought into question, as paint and collage layer upon each other. Due consideration is applied to both elements – in turn, careful and concise compositions emerge which hold an air of underlying discontent.

These works echo descriptions of each other, so that each piece can be seen as both a resolution and a point of departure or initial thought. Through the process of painting and reprinting, an inevitable gluttony of material builds. This translation of paintings and collages into each other creates layered foreign bodies, sometimes with their origins evident, and at other times completely detached. Edges and fra...

Newcastle University
BA Fine Art
1st Class BA (Hons)

Free Range 2014, The Truman Brewery, London, July 2014

Newcastle University Fine Art Degree Show 2014, Newcastle University Fine Art Department, May 2014

Without Lines, curated and exhibited, Globe Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, January 2014

CorporART, Bamburgh House, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, November 2013

Broadcast One, St. Catherine’s Court, Sunderland, November 2012

60 Hours II, Pride Suite Café, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, October 2012

Populace, Open Call submission, Lime Street Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, October 2012

60 Hours, Newbridge Project Annex Space, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, April 2012