YOURS FRANKLY
2009
A dance and visual arts performance event. The work was created using a distanced collaborative methodology that resisted real time communication technology. Artists were based in Leeds, Market Harborough and Bradford. The creative dialogue was conducted using the postal service in the form of ‘gift’ exchange. Gifts included objects, personal items, love letters, images, sketches, recorded movement, and some more weird and wonderful items. Each gift received would then be interpreted and responded to with another gift, as well as influencing, or becoming part of, the body of work being produced in each remote setting. The purpose of the project was to explore notions of time and delay as part of the creative process, perhaps also intentionally embracing a nostalgic view of days before the world of internet connection. All work will be brought together on Tuesday 1st September 2009 at The Loft in Leeds. Admission to the event is by invitation only, for further details please contact: briony@yoursfrankly.com
BOOKMARKS
2009 onwards
Books can be 'read' to discern characteristics of the owner; transport is an ideal environment for this pursuit. The type of book can tell you something about the reader, but so can the owners' treatment of the object. As I was reading a book, I noticed a tendancy to fold the pages into a neat diagonal as a bookmark which created a repetition of squares. This is a selection of these incidental character portraits that are a suggestion of my personality. The truth of this suggestion is not in the photographic recording of the incidents but in the selection of the event by the photographer, who is fastidious, but not uniformly, as these images suggest
STATIONARY STATIONARY
2003 - 2004
The project started with a blu-tack penis. It had been sculpted at work with incredible attention to detail and took a considerable amount of time and effort. This blu-tack penis displayed and demonstrated the convergence of three themes: boredom, the workplace and creativity.
This work emerges
from the stimulus surrounding Philip's photographic life; the working environment.
Elastic bands, drawing pins and telephones are those 'mundane' sculptural
artefacts that become centre stage within most work places.
In this collection, Philip addresses the theme of 'Process'. Double-sided
tape left exposed or holding up elastic bands - support structures that
take you elsewhere. As imperfections, these elements reveal the 'undersides'
of the work by accentuating the working processes involved in the creation
of artificial scenes.
As an integral
and necessary labour of sculptural and photographic production, Philip merges
two complementary mediums in order to open a space toward a reflection on
the metamorphoses of 'stationary' objects. The subject of these photographs,
like Goldsworthy's 'natural' sculpture, are without permanence. A pin telephone
was painstakingly disassembled; the pins returned to their pre-scribed use.
Its transformation is transitory.
ALL THE SMALL THINGS
2003 - present
Lives bound to a regular job must express themselves through their environment, even if the transience of accommodation means a lack of the ‘home from home’. A wedding photograph held up with Sellotape contradicts the significance of the event, a meticulously ordered desk suggests a controlled persona, chaos exudes an image of disorder. In these photographs, objects become their owners and evoke their personality even in their absence. We reveal ourselves in the objects we leave behind
LIGHT BULBS
1999 - 2000
Constructed portraits taking the fundamental property of the photographic process as the centre of the work. Light here acts as a baton, passed on from photograph to photograph, linking together the images into a narrative-like sequence. The narrative undulates around this light, but is not fixed; the viewer is to decide as to the complexity of the tale. The light replaces the child, and is powered by the human hand.