Here’s Looking at You: Research & Development
Here’s Looking at You: R&D (HLY) took place throughout 2021. A first stage R&D project provided time & resources to test the feasibility of delivering & presenting HLY...
Exhibition - 6th July - 18th September 2021
Gallery Oldham, Greaves Street, Oldham OL1 1AL
Open Tues-Sat, 10am – 5pm
‘Being Benedict Phillips or How to be Dyslexic’ is the first large scale exhibition of what...
In September 1995 my activist manifesto ‘Agenda of the Agresiv Dislecksick’ was published in DAIL (Disability Arts in London) magazine. At the time of its publication, dyslexia was seen as a childhood disease that...
Alicia Wallace 'If you've never known anything else'
Project Display: Participation Floor (2nd Floor)
The Tetley, Hunslet Rd, Leeds, LS10 1JQ
Open daily until 10/11, 10:00-17:00 (20:00 Weds)
How to be a Dyslexic Artist! is a display of...
During a period as artist-in-residence at Access Space, Benedict further developed ideas relating to his concept of Alternative Acts of Architecture. He set out to research and develop a new iteration of his DIV...
The ‘Oldham Owl’ project was a commission to design and deliver a major new civic sculpture re-imagining the Oldham town emblem as the centerpiece of the transformation of the old Town Hall and surrounding...
In the autumn of 2014, Benedict Phillips travelled between seven locations in the St Helens area, meeting local people to investigate and to discuss their family histories in relationship to World War One. Through...
Digital Media Labs was devised as a new model for commissioning digital public art as part of delivering a new city center Health centre for Hull. Digital Media Labs then developed into an ongoing...
Devised and delivered 15 video with the https://www.iofpi.co.uk/ team of artists filmmakers and historians ! archivists and curators...
Announcements on the history and legacy of the town of Oldham. Issued by the Institute of Public...
Soirée Graphique, 2012 - Sculpture/Photo work at Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
An international project based in Switzerland where illustrators produce posters which are sent to invited artists after receiving to respond to an exhibition. Benedict Phillips...
A two-week residency based at the offices of Edward Cullinan architectural practice in London, initiated to research and develop ideas around collaboration between artists and architects.
There can never be an absolute working method for...
‘A Benedictionary’ is the world’s only ‘lexic’ to dyslexic translation dictionary, supporting the proposal that ‘everyone can be dislecksick, you just have to try harder’...
The original ‘Benedictionary’ was created as part of an...
The Chapeltown Standard (a sign of quality) was developed through discussions over a series of dinners between January-May 2011 involving people from different backgrounds (such as environmental consultancy, science, architecture, archaeology social support, construction...
‘Light Lines’ is an installation project created as part of the public arts programme for the newly built NHS Wilberforce Health Centre, a £16.5 million walk-in centre in Hull that opened in 2012. ‘Light...
A project that draws upon the history of the mathematics of beauty, art and culture. The work consisted of a limited edition print and unique rubber stamp that was distributed to delegates at the...
The ‘Red DIV’ photographic work is a performance for camera developed in response to ‘3D Thinkers in a 2D World’, a lecture/performance by Benedict Phillips. In the lecture/performance, the persona of ‘The Red DIV’...
Thanks to global warming, African termites invade your building. Your timber frame seems less and less like a good idea… (Return to start square and miss a go)
cq was developed for beam as a...
‘Daydream – Theory of Relativity’, was developed in response to the ‘story’ that Albert Einstein developed his theory of relativity following a daydream in which he found himself ‘flying alongside a beam of light’....
The project ‘Invisible Conversations’ is a series of photographic portraits of adult dyslexics that explores the diversity of individuals’ experiences of dyslexia. The portraits offer a photographic record of the conversation that takes place...
As part of a residency at Yorkshire Arts Space 2005, supported by Creative Partnerships, Benedict Phillips created the ‘White DIV’ and the performance ‘The Invisible Apartheid of Words’ and also began to develop the...
A site-specific digital art installation for the NHS Walk-In Centre at Knowle West Health Park, Bristol. The installation comprised an arrangement of twenty three LCD portrait 17” monitors placed on a wall in the...
‘Phonetics Objects’ was commissioned by Cartwright Hall, Bradford, as part of a programme of exhibitions to celebrate the centenary of its opening in 2004. Benedict Phillips was given freedom to explore Bradford’s art gallery...
A Public artwork for Hull Time Based Arts, Rivercommissions public art program, 2002.
‘river river – Dry Dock’ took place from 15 March to 29 June 2002 as an installation/performance involving a fleet of 6...
An installation on the exterior of the ten-storey Holbeck Tower, Leeds, that consisted of five pairs of large light boxes. The light boxes were installed on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th floors...
This project consisted of an installation in a housing estate in York. For ‘Melting Mail’, four huge blocks of ice were created within which were embedded objects that had been covered in gold leaf...
“11:50 am Friday 27 August 1999. And I am standing on the north bank of the Thames with the House of Commons for my backdrop. I am feeling nervous, (not one of my common...