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...
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...
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...
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’...
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 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...
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...