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Phil Illingworth

I hoard ideas that interest me for reasons which may be elusive, like a face that seems familiar but which I can't quite place. My practice is an exploration of these ideas.

www.philillingworth.com

Colin of Alaska

By: Phil Illingworth
'We drove down to the coast today. Mrs d'Alaska's mum said we should boil the water before we went swimming.' Colin d'Alaska, his family and friends, are a (kind of) living artwork, allowing me to Read on…

'These are the stairs I fell down on Tuesday. It is the only part of the house that is blurred'.

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'I was still awake at four o'clock this morning, thinking about moths'.

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Phil Illingworth. Someone posted this photograph of our kitchen through our letterbox. It is a photograph of our kitchen, and I think it is a CCTV picture. Who would do that, and how did they get it?

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Is blogging for me?

By: Andrew Bryant
Online editor of Artsts talking Andrew Bryant addresses some typical concerns about starting a blog Read on…

Phil Illingworth, 'A drawing of a room, 47.244m3', Flies, 2010. An experimental drawing, exploring time and space (the full text for this is on my website). See Phil Illingworth's blog 'Notes from an Obsessive/Compulsive Butterfly'.

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Notes from an obsessive/compulsive butterfly

By: Phil Illingworth

The title says it all, really.

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Phil Illingworth, 'Jugger Jugger Juggernaut', Pencil on colour washed paper, 2009.

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Phil Illingworth, 'luv u', Animal bones, ink, pencil, powdered granite, 2009.

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Phil Illingworth, 'Dust', Pencil, found objects, 2009.

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Phil Illingworth, 'Message to a previous self (Time Machine)', Oak, paper, pencil, 2009.

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'Dad, dead', Steel, brass, various woods, thread, 2009.

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Phil Illingworth, 'Dad, dead'. (Detail)

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'Il Voce', Polychromed wood (limewood, gesso, acrylics, MDF base), 2010. (81 x 81 x 40cm). Based on religious carvings of the 15th and 16thC and using similar techniques. Although I have done bits and pieces of 'whittling' I have never done anything like this before, and had to teach myself to carve and so forth to produce this. Using these techniques is integral to the concept. I carried out the preliminaries last year.

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Phil Illingworth, 'A drawing of a room, 47.244m3', Flies, 2010. An experimental drawing, exploring time and space (the full text for this is on my website). See Phil Illingworth's blog 'Notes from an Obsessive/Compulsive Butterfly'.

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Phil Illingworth, 'Cara Mia', Glass, water, luminous plastic, lead, plinth, 2011.

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Phil Illingworth, 'Colin of Alaska', Web-based project, 2009 and ongoing. This project is centred on the blog of the fictitious character Colin d'Alaska. Using the starting point of pre-existing reject family snapshots, brand new narratives transform these images into the basis for Colin's banal and tragi-comic story.

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'Phil Illingworth'. .... and after

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'Phil Illingworth'. My artist's pension (and yes, those are trees growing in the kitchen). Before .....

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Phil Illingworth.

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On Sunday I made a mock-up for a work with an old tarpaulin, getting a feel of scale, taking advantage of the space I have available in the building here while I can.

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