AUSTRALIA’S NATIONAL GALLERY ADDS PETER PHILLIPS PAINTING TO ITS COLLECTION

AUSTRALIA’S NATIONAL GALLERY ADDS PETER PHILLIPS PAINTING TO ITS COLLECTION

 

The National Gallery of Australia (“NGA”) in Canberra has added a key painting from British artist Peter Phillips to its collection in April. Phillips, who is best known as a key founder of the pop art movement in the 1960s, recently relocated his working studio to Australia.

 

 

Born into a working class family, Phillips studied at the Royal College of Art in London during the late 1950s, alongside fellow classmates David Hockney, Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Allen Jones, R.B. Kitaj, Billy Apple and Brett Whiteley. Being awarded a Harkness Fellowship in 1964, Phillips moved to New York, where he exhibited alongside American counterparts such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. He subsequently migrated to Switzerland, Spain, Costa Rica, and now Australia, where he continues to work at the age of 80.

The work acquired by the NGA, titled ‘Zone II’, was painted in 1994 and purchased from the artist’s private collection. In 2015 it was featured by the BBC as part of it’s ‘BBC Four Goes Pop!’ campaign. Zone II is part of Phillips’ self-proclaimed Patchwork series, a set of collage paintings he began to make in the mid-1990s.

 

 

According to art historian Marco Livingtone, “Interspersing geometric shapes and decorative patterns with machine parts, reproductions of art works and images of people and animals… he leads the viewer on visual journeys that propose unexpected equivalences between high art and scientific illustration, overheated human sexuality and the natural landscape.”

The NGA’s collection of modern international art is the largest in Australia, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The NGA boasts an outstanding Pop Art collection, including works by David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Peter Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.

 

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This exhibition, Hybrid 2.0, presented in conjunction with Phillips and the Estate of Gerald Laing, will reapply the method of the original Hybrid to create today’s ideal art object. A similar questionnaire adapted to a digital platform will be used to produce a wholly original work of art reflecting current aesthetic tendencies. This new work will be presented alongside the original Hybrid, on loan from the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA and exhibited for the first time since its creation in 1966, together with a wide array of research and archival materials, photographs, and press-cuttings.

 

HYBRID: A TIME OF LIFE

In 1965, Phillips and Laing formed an organisation called Hybrid Enterprises in New York, with the aim to use market research techniques to create a work of art. Armed with ‘research kits’ comprising samples of colours and media, the pair asked one hundred and thirty-seven ‘art literates’—including Ivan Karp, Lawrence Alloway, David Whitney, and Leo Castelli—to make their choices. The final product, made in 1966, was an aluminium sculpture with sleek lines, candy-coloured stripes, and neon tubing, reminiscent of a rocket or racecar. Hybrid was featured heavily in the press, both prior to its making and after, approximating the status of a revelatory, must-have commodity, while playing with the role of mass-media in the fetishisation and commodification of objects. There was both praise and outrage; while for Alloway, “They set us up as nature and then drew from us,” writer Gene Swenson said, “The art scene is sick and Hybrid is the clearest symptom of that sickness.” Grace Glueck for the New York Times simply stated, “Who knows. It might sell!”

 

 

HELP CREATE HYBRID 2.0

Through the end of 2019, the public is encouraged to participate in the online survey for Hybrid 2.0. Preferences about media, shape, colour, and texture will be processed and averaged, resulting in a plan for an art object. Production will be overseen by the Estate of Gerald Laing and the work of art will debut at Lévy Gorvy’s exhibition opening in London on 10 December.

Hybrid 2.0 will celebrate the alternative approaches to art-making that emerged with the pop-generation and show the continuing relevance of Phillips and Laing’s legacy in today’s media-saturated and consumer driven society. As Hybrid Enterprises, the artists promoted a radical questioning of a zeitgeist in which everything could be commercialised which remains as relevant today. By engaging art lovers of all kinds in the search for a new collectively imagined art object, Lévy Gorvy will offer a moment of democracy of taste, playing the artworld against its own reified hierarchies. The gallery will also produce buttons, posters, and other memorabilia relating to the exhibition, in the same tongue-in-cheek spirit as Laing and Phillips, at once calling into question the commodification of the art world while actively participating in it.

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In recognition of his internationally recognized record of exceptional and outstanding achievement in the arts, the Australian Government granted Peter a Distinguished Talent visa, allowing him to live permanently in Australia. (He remains grateful to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra for their sponsorship).

Having found a large acreage property in the foothills behind Noosa, Peter renovated an industrial barn into a large-scale studio and gallery to house his private collection. The Peter Phillips’ collection encompasses six decades of work, spanning from large-scale paintings to mixed-media collages to lithographic prints and sculptures.

Importantly, the new space also serves as Peter’s primary working studio. The clarity of light and open space lends itself exceptionally well to Peter’s style of work.

While Peter continues to exhibit worldwide – with primary gallery representation in Europe – Peter encourages any collectors interested in touring his new studio in Australia to contact him to arrange a private showing.

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Broadsheet Features Peter Phillips

A New Gallery From British Pop Art Pioneer Peter Phillips in Noosa’s Tropical Hinterland He was at the forefront of a global art movement and has exhibited all over the world. Now Peter Phillips has settled on the Sunshine Coast, and his studio is open to all. In the...

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Art + Australia on Peter Phillips

The tough guy of pop: An interview with Peter Phillips Reclusiveness has always played a part in Peter Phillips' life and work. A pop artist with a cool detachment from the social trappings of that particular scene in London and New York in the 1960s; a Brit who left...

read more

Peter Phillips Gin, Fortune Distillery and Delicious Magazine

Acclaimed artist Peter Phillips celebrates six decades of work with Fortune Distillery Iconic pop artist Peter Phillips has collaborated with Noosa Heads ‘Fortune’ Distillery where six pieces of his work have been selected for labels for six limited-edition gin...

read more

The Urban List on Peter Phillips

Why You Need To Visit The Hidden Noosa Gallery Of Pop Art Icon, Peter Phillips Hidden treasures of the Sunshine Coast, often aren’t very hidden. But the hinterland gallery of world famous British pop artist, Peter Phillips is an exception. Tucked in Tinbeerwah, behind...

read more

Hybrid 2.0 coming in May 2020

Opening in May 2020, Lévy Gorvy will present Hybrid 2.0, a CONSUMER-DETERMINED, TASTE-CATALYSED, COLLECTOR-COMPATIBLE, 100% CONSENSUS-ISED art piece and exhibition. In the 1960s Pop icons Peter Phillips and Gerald Laing collectively imagined Hybrid...

read more

Happy Socks x Peter Phillips

BRITISH POP ARTIST PETER PHILLIPS ANNOUNCES COLLABORATION WITH HAPPY SOCKS Peter Phillips – one of the preeminent British Pop Artists of our time – is proud to announce a unique collaboration with fashionably acclaimed Swedish sock company Happy Socks. Born into a...

read more

Australian Traveller Features Peter Phillips

POP ART PIONEER A forefather of Pop Art, British artist Peter Phillips now lives in the Noosa Hinterland where he is unveiling a Restrospective Exhibition of his work, staged in his large-scale new studio gallery in time for his 80th birthday.   ...

read more

Australian Financial Review on Phillips and the NF&W Festival

The festival that serves art with its food. The annual foodie fair has teamed up with chef Josh Lopez for the 80th birthday retrospective and gallery opening of resident British pop artist Peter Phillips. Go to article. Artist Peter Phillips can see the paradox. As a...

read more

Phillips in Style Media

This Popular Pop Artist Is Showing Up On Our Doorstep This May! His career has spanned over 60 years and numerous continents, so it’s no surprise that prolific British Pop Artist, Peter Phillips is extremely well versed in his artistry. After living and working in the...

read more

The Financial Times on Phillips’ works in Auction

Francesca Gavin for the Financial Times'  ‘How to Spend It’ writes about Phillips' works in auction. "Waiting for certain artworks to appear at auction can be like waiting for a bus. Nothing comes along and then three appear at once. This is true of British pop...

read more

Peter Phillips on Artnet News

Taylor Dafoe of Artnet News, interviewed Phillips on his move to Australia, working at 79 and why he doesn’t think much about legacy. Peter Phillips, the pioneering British pop artist, made some of his earliest (and best known) paintings over 55 years ago now. Yet...

read more

Peter Phillips Opens New Studio in Australia

After years of living, traveling and working between Europe, the United States and Central America, Peter Phillips has relocated his working studio to Australia. It is located in the Sunshine Coast, north of Brisbane. In recognition of his internationally...

read more

Peter Phillips Retrospective at 99 Mary Street

  99 Mary Street have the pleasure of presenting legendary and highly influential British pop artist Peter Phillips. No mere retrospective, the show will play host to archive pieces, new works and revisited works including pieces produced specifically for this event....

read more

The BBC and Peter Phillips

Peter Phillips has been commissioned by the BBC to create a new BBC Four ident which will run throughout August alongside new logos produced by his fellow Royal College graduates Peter Blake and Derek Boshier. The trio starred in the seminal 1962 Ken Russell documentary about Pop Art, Pop Goes The Easel.

read more

Phillips’ work at the Helmhaus

The Helmhaus, a contemporary art institution run by the city of Zurich, will feature Peter Phillips in the upcoming exhibition, Das Dreieck Der Liebe – Körperlichkeit und Abstraktion

read more

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists celebrates 200 years

The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists ("RBSA"), one of the oldest artist-led societies in Britain, will celebrate 200 years with a landmark retrospective exhibition titled 'A Place for Art: The Story of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists'. Phillips,...

read more

Peter Phillips at Galerie Proarta, Zurich

Galerie Proarta in Zurich is staged a solo exhibition on July 9th, 2014. With over 20 original paintings, works on paper and prints on display, the exhibition featured two decades of works by Peter Phillips.  Featured works included Cross Roads (1991-92),...

read more

Peter Phillips at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid

In 1992, pop art was famously featured at the Museo Reina Sofia. Now, bringing pop art back to a new generation of art lovers in Madrid, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is staging Pop Art Myths from June through September 2014. Curated by Paloma Alarcó, the...

read more

Tate’s Young Generation Selects Peter Phillips Works

The BP Spotlights Series, in partnership with the Tate Museum, is a series of exhibitions with in-depth displays that explore various themes. From April through September 2014, the BP Spotlight: Source explores six unique themes – one per month - and will...

read more

Remembering Africa Twirl for the 2010 World Cup

  In honor of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, we remember the work Peter Phillips was commissioned to paint for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The 2010 Fine Art Project was an official 2010 World Cup collaboration that brought together a range of...

read more

Entertainment Machine at the Tate

The Tate Gallery's homage to British Pop Art, 'Art & the Sixties: This Was Tomorrow', features Peter Phillips early oil on canvas, The Entertainment Machine. Of the 31 works of Peter Phillips owned by the Tate, The Entertainment Machine is a particularly...

read more

Vogue China: Pop Art Never Dies

In the February 2014 edition of Vogue Magazine, China, the article Pop Art Never Dies featured Peter Phillips 1968 gouache on paper titled Gravy for the Navy. Emblematic of what Vogue calls a provocative, sexy, sleek portrayal of modern people’s material...

read more

It’s All Gravy

“It’s all gravy”, was once a popular slang term used by US Navy sailors meaning “it’s all good”. And so, in the early 1960s, Peter Phillips composed a series of Gravy for the Navy paintings with patriotic pin-up women (inspired by drawings by Alberto Vargas...

read more

When Britain Went Pop! Christies shows the early years

Launching Christie’s new Mayfair gallery in London, in partnership with Waddington Custot Galleries, "When Britain Went Pop" exhibits Pop Art in Britain from its infancy in the 1940's through its hay day in the 1960s. By 1961, emerging London-based artists...

read more

The New Situation; Art in London in the Sixties

In 2013, Sotheby's mounted an exhibition focusing on the decade of the 1960's, when British artists captured the world’s imagination, finding recognition and success both at home and abroad. Reuniting over 40 artists from the excitement of the London scene...

read more

Hidden away in Tehran

In 1979, the world’s most valuable collection of modern art located outside Europe or America simply vanished. The Islamic Revolution swept through Iran with tremendous fervor, resulting in the banishment of works held at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary...

read more

1972 The Cars “Heartbeat City” Album Cover

Congratulations to The Cars for the induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! On a rainy fall day in 1984, Peter Phillips met drummer David Robinson of The Cars over cocktails in a London bar. Robinson is credited for naming the band and concepting...

read more

War/Game: 1961 The Strokes “Room on Fire” Album Cover 2003

A century after the American Civil War, Peter Phillips created War/Game using oil and polished wood on canvas. The painting depicts opposing confederate and union forces through typical emblems of combat – flags, guns and uniforms. Four decades later, the...

read more

Hurdler, 1972: Olympische Spiele Munchen

Peter Phillips was commissioned to create one of twenty-eight posters to advertise the Munich Olympic Games of 1972. Pop art contemporaries such as Allen Jones and David Hockney contributed to the collection.

read more
Phillips’ work at the Helmhaus

Phillips’ work at the Helmhaus

The Helmhaus, a contemporary art institution run by the city of Zurich, will feature Peter Phillips in the upcoming exhibition, Das Dreieck Der Liebe – Körperlichkeit und Abstraktion in der Zürcher Kunst (“The Triangle of Love – corporeality and abstraction in Zurich Art”). The exhibition will run from 25 September through 22 November 2015.

 

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Broadsheet Features Peter Phillips

A New Gallery From British Pop Art Pioneer Peter Phillips in Noosa’s Tropical Hinterland He was at the forefront of a global art movement and has exhibited all over the world. Now Peter Phillips has settled on the Sunshine Coast, and his studio is open to all. In the...

read more

Art + Australia on Peter Phillips

The tough guy of pop: An interview with Peter Phillips Reclusiveness has always played a part in Peter Phillips' life and work. A pop artist with a cool detachment from the social trappings of that particular scene in London and New York in the 1960s; a Brit who left...

read more

Peter Phillips Gin, Fortune Distillery and Delicious Magazine

Acclaimed artist Peter Phillips celebrates six decades of work with Fortune Distillery Iconic pop artist Peter Phillips has collaborated with Noosa Heads ‘Fortune’ Distillery where six pieces of his work have been selected for labels for six limited-edition gin...

read more

The Urban List on Peter Phillips

Why You Need To Visit The Hidden Noosa Gallery Of Pop Art Icon, Peter Phillips Hidden treasures of the Sunshine Coast, often aren’t very hidden. But the hinterland gallery of world famous British pop artist, Peter Phillips is an exception. Tucked in Tinbeerwah, behind...

read more

Hybrid 2.0 coming in May 2020

Opening in May 2020, Lévy Gorvy will present Hybrid 2.0, a CONSUMER-DETERMINED, TASTE-CATALYSED, COLLECTOR-COMPATIBLE, 100% CONSENSUS-ISED art piece and exhibition. In the 1960s Pop icons Peter Phillips and Gerald Laing collectively imagined Hybrid...

read more

Happy Socks x Peter Phillips

BRITISH POP ARTIST PETER PHILLIPS ANNOUNCES COLLABORATION WITH HAPPY SOCKS Peter Phillips – one of the preeminent British Pop Artists of our time – is proud to announce a unique collaboration with fashionably acclaimed Swedish sock company Happy Socks. Born into a...

read more

Australian Traveller Features Peter Phillips

POP ART PIONEER A forefather of Pop Art, British artist Peter Phillips now lives in the Noosa Hinterland where he is unveiling a Restrospective Exhibition of his work, staged in his large-scale new studio gallery in time for his 80th birthday.   ...

read more

Australian Financial Review on Phillips and the NF&W Festival

The festival that serves art with its food. The annual foodie fair has teamed up with chef Josh Lopez for the 80th birthday retrospective and gallery opening of resident British pop artist Peter Phillips. Go to article. Artist Peter Phillips can see the paradox. As a...

read more

Phillips in Style Media

This Popular Pop Artist Is Showing Up On Our Doorstep This May! His career has spanned over 60 years and numerous continents, so it’s no surprise that prolific British Pop Artist, Peter Phillips is extremely well versed in his artistry. After living and working in the...

read more

The Financial Times on Phillips’ works in Auction

Francesca Gavin for the Financial Times'  ‘How to Spend It’ writes about Phillips' works in auction. "Waiting for certain artworks to appear at auction can be like waiting for a bus. Nothing comes along and then three appear at once. This is true of British pop...

read more

Peter Phillips on Artnet News

Taylor Dafoe of Artnet News, interviewed Phillips on his move to Australia, working at 79 and why he doesn’t think much about legacy. Peter Phillips, the pioneering British pop artist, made some of his earliest (and best known) paintings over 55 years ago now. Yet...

read more

Peter Phillips Opens New Studio in Australia

After years of living, traveling and working between Europe, the United States and Central America, Peter Phillips has relocated his working studio to Australia. It is located in the Sunshine Coast, north of Brisbane. In recognition of his internationally...

read more

Peter Phillips Retrospective at 99 Mary Street

  99 Mary Street have the pleasure of presenting legendary and highly influential British pop artist Peter Phillips. No mere retrospective, the show will play host to archive pieces, new works and revisited works including pieces produced specifically for this event....

read more

The BBC and Peter Phillips

Peter Phillips has been commissioned by the BBC to create a new BBC Four ident which will run throughout August alongside new logos produced by his fellow Royal College graduates Peter Blake and Derek Boshier. The trio starred in the seminal 1962 Ken Russell documentary about Pop Art, Pop Goes The Easel.

read more

Phillips’ work at the Helmhaus

The Helmhaus, a contemporary art institution run by the city of Zurich, will feature Peter Phillips in the upcoming exhibition, Das Dreieck Der Liebe – Körperlichkeit und Abstraktion

read more

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists celebrates 200 years

The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists ("RBSA"), one of the oldest artist-led societies in Britain, will celebrate 200 years with a landmark retrospective exhibition titled 'A Place for Art: The Story of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists'. Phillips,...

read more

Peter Phillips at Galerie Proarta, Zurich

Galerie Proarta in Zurich is staged a solo exhibition on July 9th, 2014. With over 20 original paintings, works on paper and prints on display, the exhibition featured two decades of works by Peter Phillips.  Featured works included Cross Roads (1991-92),...

read more

Peter Phillips at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid

In 1992, pop art was famously featured at the Museo Reina Sofia. Now, bringing pop art back to a new generation of art lovers in Madrid, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is staging Pop Art Myths from June through September 2014. Curated by Paloma Alarcó, the...

read more

Tate’s Young Generation Selects Peter Phillips Works

The BP Spotlights Series, in partnership with the Tate Museum, is a series of exhibitions with in-depth displays that explore various themes. From April through September 2014, the BP Spotlight: Source explores six unique themes – one per month - and will...

read more

Remembering Africa Twirl for the 2010 World Cup

  In honor of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, we remember the work Peter Phillips was commissioned to paint for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The 2010 Fine Art Project was an official 2010 World Cup collaboration that brought together a range of...

read more

Entertainment Machine at the Tate

The Tate Gallery's homage to British Pop Art, 'Art & the Sixties: This Was Tomorrow', features Peter Phillips early oil on canvas, The Entertainment Machine. Of the 31 works of Peter Phillips owned by the Tate, The Entertainment Machine is a particularly...

read more

Vogue China: Pop Art Never Dies

In the February 2014 edition of Vogue Magazine, China, the article Pop Art Never Dies featured Peter Phillips 1968 gouache on paper titled Gravy for the Navy. Emblematic of what Vogue calls a provocative, sexy, sleek portrayal of modern people’s material...

read more

It’s All Gravy

“It’s all gravy”, was once a popular slang term used by US Navy sailors meaning “it’s all good”. And so, in the early 1960s, Peter Phillips composed a series of Gravy for the Navy paintings with patriotic pin-up women (inspired by drawings by Alberto Vargas...

read more

When Britain Went Pop! Christies shows the early years

Launching Christie’s new Mayfair gallery in London, in partnership with Waddington Custot Galleries, "When Britain Went Pop" exhibits Pop Art in Britain from its infancy in the 1940's through its hay day in the 1960s. By 1961, emerging London-based artists...

read more

The New Situation; Art in London in the Sixties

In 2013, Sotheby's mounted an exhibition focusing on the decade of the 1960's, when British artists captured the world’s imagination, finding recognition and success both at home and abroad. Reuniting over 40 artists from the excitement of the London scene...

read more

Hidden away in Tehran

In 1979, the world’s most valuable collection of modern art located outside Europe or America simply vanished. The Islamic Revolution swept through Iran with tremendous fervor, resulting in the banishment of works held at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary...

read more

1972 The Cars “Heartbeat City” Album Cover

Congratulations to The Cars for the induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! On a rainy fall day in 1984, Peter Phillips met drummer David Robinson of The Cars over cocktails in a London bar. Robinson is credited for naming the band and concepting...

read more

War/Game: 1961 The Strokes “Room on Fire” Album Cover 2003

A century after the American Civil War, Peter Phillips created War/Game using oil and polished wood on canvas. The painting depicts opposing confederate and union forces through typical emblems of combat – flags, guns and uniforms. Four decades later, the...

read more

Hurdler, 1972: Olympische Spiele Munchen

Peter Phillips was commissioned to create one of twenty-eight posters to advertise the Munich Olympic Games of 1972. Pop art contemporaries such as Allen Jones and David Hockney contributed to the collection.

read more
Remembering Africa Twirl for the 2010 World Cup

Remembering Africa Twirl for the 2010 World Cup

 

In honor of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, we remember the work Peter Phillips was commissioned to paint for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

The 2010 Fine Art Project was an official 2010 World Cup collaboration that brought together a range of artists from around the world to create works inspired by Africa’s first World Cup. Five artists from of each of the 32 qualifying countries were commissioned to celebrate the sport in Africa through original works of art. Various genres were represented, with artists ranging from Peter Phillips and Ed Gray in the United Kingdom to Paul Goodnight in the United States.

 

 

Phillips’ contribution, a painting called “Africa Twirl” is an abstract that combines imagery of the sport with the colors of South Arica’s flag. In April 2010, this was the first piece accepted into the collection.

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Broadsheet Features Peter Phillips

A New Gallery From British Pop Art Pioneer Peter Phillips in Noosa’s Tropical Hinterland He was at the forefront of a global art movement and has exhibited all over the world. Now Peter Phillips has settled on the Sunshine Coast, and his studio is open to all. In the...

read more

Art + Australia on Peter Phillips

The tough guy of pop: An interview with Peter Phillips Reclusiveness has always played a part in Peter Phillips' life and work. A pop artist with a cool detachment from the social trappings of that particular scene in London and New York in the 1960s; a Brit who left...

read more

Peter Phillips Gin, Fortune Distillery and Delicious Magazine

Acclaimed artist Peter Phillips celebrates six decades of work with Fortune Distillery Iconic pop artist Peter Phillips has collaborated with Noosa Heads ‘Fortune’ Distillery where six pieces of his work have been selected for labels for six limited-edition gin...

read more

The Urban List on Peter Phillips

Why You Need To Visit The Hidden Noosa Gallery Of Pop Art Icon, Peter Phillips Hidden treasures of the Sunshine Coast, often aren’t very hidden. But the hinterland gallery of world famous British pop artist, Peter Phillips is an exception. Tucked in Tinbeerwah, behind...

read more

Hybrid 2.0 coming in May 2020

Opening in May 2020, Lévy Gorvy will present Hybrid 2.0, a CONSUMER-DETERMINED, TASTE-CATALYSED, COLLECTOR-COMPATIBLE, 100% CONSENSUS-ISED art piece and exhibition. In the 1960s Pop icons Peter Phillips and Gerald Laing collectively imagined Hybrid...

read more

Happy Socks x Peter Phillips

BRITISH POP ARTIST PETER PHILLIPS ANNOUNCES COLLABORATION WITH HAPPY SOCKS Peter Phillips – one of the preeminent British Pop Artists of our time – is proud to announce a unique collaboration with fashionably acclaimed Swedish sock company Happy Socks. Born into a...

read more

Australian Traveller Features Peter Phillips

POP ART PIONEER A forefather of Pop Art, British artist Peter Phillips now lives in the Noosa Hinterland where he is unveiling a Restrospective Exhibition of his work, staged in his large-scale new studio gallery in time for his 80th birthday.   ...

read more

Australian Financial Review on Phillips and the NF&W Festival

The festival that serves art with its food. The annual foodie fair has teamed up with chef Josh Lopez for the 80th birthday retrospective and gallery opening of resident British pop artist Peter Phillips. Go to article. Artist Peter Phillips can see the paradox. As a...

read more

Phillips in Style Media

This Popular Pop Artist Is Showing Up On Our Doorstep This May! His career has spanned over 60 years and numerous continents, so it’s no surprise that prolific British Pop Artist, Peter Phillips is extremely well versed in his artistry. After living and working in the...

read more

The Financial Times on Phillips’ works in Auction

Francesca Gavin for the Financial Times'  ‘How to Spend It’ writes about Phillips' works in auction. "Waiting for certain artworks to appear at auction can be like waiting for a bus. Nothing comes along and then three appear at once. This is true of British pop...

read more

Peter Phillips on Artnet News

Taylor Dafoe of Artnet News, interviewed Phillips on his move to Australia, working at 79 and why he doesn’t think much about legacy. Peter Phillips, the pioneering British pop artist, made some of his earliest (and best known) paintings over 55 years ago now. Yet...

read more

Peter Phillips Opens New Studio in Australia

After years of living, traveling and working between Europe, the United States and Central America, Peter Phillips has relocated his working studio to Australia. It is located in the Sunshine Coast, north of Brisbane. In recognition of his internationally...

read more

Peter Phillips Retrospective at 99 Mary Street

  99 Mary Street have the pleasure of presenting legendary and highly influential British pop artist Peter Phillips. No mere retrospective, the show will play host to archive pieces, new works and revisited works including pieces produced specifically for this event....

read more

The BBC and Peter Phillips

Peter Phillips has been commissioned by the BBC to create a new BBC Four ident which will run throughout August alongside new logos produced by his fellow Royal College graduates Peter Blake and Derek Boshier. The trio starred in the seminal 1962 Ken Russell documentary about Pop Art, Pop Goes The Easel.

read more

Phillips’ work at the Helmhaus

The Helmhaus, a contemporary art institution run by the city of Zurich, will feature Peter Phillips in the upcoming exhibition, Das Dreieck Der Liebe – Körperlichkeit und Abstraktion

read more

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists celebrates 200 years

The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists ("RBSA"), one of the oldest artist-led societies in Britain, will celebrate 200 years with a landmark retrospective exhibition titled 'A Place for Art: The Story of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists'. Phillips,...

read more

Peter Phillips at Galerie Proarta, Zurich

Galerie Proarta in Zurich is staged a solo exhibition on July 9th, 2014. With over 20 original paintings, works on paper and prints on display, the exhibition featured two decades of works by Peter Phillips.  Featured works included Cross Roads (1991-92),...

read more

Peter Phillips at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid

In 1992, pop art was famously featured at the Museo Reina Sofia. Now, bringing pop art back to a new generation of art lovers in Madrid, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is staging Pop Art Myths from June through September 2014. Curated by Paloma Alarcó, the...

read more

Tate’s Young Generation Selects Peter Phillips Works

The BP Spotlights Series, in partnership with the Tate Museum, is a series of exhibitions with in-depth displays that explore various themes. From April through September 2014, the BP Spotlight: Source explores six unique themes – one per month - and will...

read more

Remembering Africa Twirl for the 2010 World Cup

  In honor of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, we remember the work Peter Phillips was commissioned to paint for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The 2010 Fine Art Project was an official 2010 World Cup collaboration that brought together a range of...

read more

Entertainment Machine at the Tate

The Tate Gallery's homage to British Pop Art, 'Art & the Sixties: This Was Tomorrow', features Peter Phillips early oil on canvas, The Entertainment Machine. Of the 31 works of Peter Phillips owned by the Tate, The Entertainment Machine is a particularly...

read more

Vogue China: Pop Art Never Dies

In the February 2014 edition of Vogue Magazine, China, the article Pop Art Never Dies featured Peter Phillips 1968 gouache on paper titled Gravy for the Navy. Emblematic of what Vogue calls a provocative, sexy, sleek portrayal of modern people’s material...

read more

It’s All Gravy

“It’s all gravy”, was once a popular slang term used by US Navy sailors meaning “it’s all good”. And so, in the early 1960s, Peter Phillips composed a series of Gravy for the Navy paintings with patriotic pin-up women (inspired by drawings by Alberto Vargas...

read more

When Britain Went Pop! Christies shows the early years

Launching Christie’s new Mayfair gallery in London, in partnership with Waddington Custot Galleries, "When Britain Went Pop" exhibits Pop Art in Britain from its infancy in the 1940's through its hay day in the 1960s. By 1961, emerging London-based artists...

read more

The New Situation; Art in London in the Sixties

In 2013, Sotheby's mounted an exhibition focusing on the decade of the 1960's, when British artists captured the world’s imagination, finding recognition and success both at home and abroad. Reuniting over 40 artists from the excitement of the London scene...

read more

Hidden away in Tehran

In 1979, the world’s most valuable collection of modern art located outside Europe or America simply vanished. The Islamic Revolution swept through Iran with tremendous fervor, resulting in the banishment of works held at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary...

read more

1972 The Cars “Heartbeat City” Album Cover

Congratulations to The Cars for the induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! On a rainy fall day in 1984, Peter Phillips met drummer David Robinson of The Cars over cocktails in a London bar. Robinson is credited for naming the band and concepting...

read more

War/Game: 1961 The Strokes “Room on Fire” Album Cover 2003

A century after the American Civil War, Peter Phillips created War/Game using oil and polished wood on canvas. The painting depicts opposing confederate and union forces through typical emblems of combat – flags, guns and uniforms. Four decades later, the...

read more

Hurdler, 1972: Olympische Spiele Munchen

Peter Phillips was commissioned to create one of twenty-eight posters to advertise the Munich Olympic Games of 1972. Pop art contemporaries such as Allen Jones and David Hockney contributed to the collection.

read more