Julia Phillips: Inside, Before They Speak
Event Details
For her first institutional solo exhibition in the UK, the multidisciplinary artist Julia Phillips presents new works which draw from her interest in the body, conception, and human connection. She uses
Event Details
For her first institutional solo exhibition in the UK, the multidisciplinary artist Julia Phillips presents new works which draw from her interest in the body, conception, and human connection.
She uses sculpture and drawing to give shape to intangible concepts, from psychological states and biological processes to human bonds and attachments.
Her sculptures merge the anatomical and the industrial. Glazed ceramic fragments, pressed and moulded against her own body, are placed in conversation with fabricated metal elements, held together by hardware such as clasps, wingnuts and springs.
Where these mechanisms appear, questions arise. Who is holding on? Who is being held? Are they inching closer? Or pulling further apart?
Free
Tue–Sun 11am–7pm
Lead image: Julia Phillips, Mediator (detail) 2020, collection of the Art Institute Chicago ©Julia Phillips,courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery