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...
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...
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’....
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...