DISS 2015 - The Art of the Graphic Score

Tom Phillips: illustrated lecture, with performance

5.15pm Upper Gatehouse
£8 / Under 16s £5

Tom Phillips – one of the UK’s most seminal and influential artists – analyses and demonstrates his most beautiful graphic scores from the 1960s and 1970s, with Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor and other musicians.

Tom Phillips is an artist whose work is fuelled by several persistent preoccupations, expressed through an even larger number of formats. These include painting (both figurative and abstract), opera (composer, librettist, set designer), concrete poetry and ornamental forms of writing, sculpture and site-specific designs (mosaic, tapestry, wire frame objects). He has also taken on several para-artistic roles – critic, curator, committee chairman for the Royal Academy, translator – all of which he has folded back into his art.

Born in 1937, Phillips attended drawing classes and lectures on Renaissance iconography alongside his studies and theatre at Oxford. Back in the South London neighbourhood where he has lived and worked nearly all his life, Phillips was taught by Frank Auerbach at Camberwell School of Art.

Phillips' first one-man exhibition in London was in 1965 and he won a John Moores prize four years later. However, in the late 1960s he was possibly better known for his music activities (both classical and with Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Orchestra) including his own compositions, as performed by the pianist John Tilbury.

Part of the Dartington International Summer School 2015 concert and events programme.

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