Kate Phillips

b.1965, Brighton, UK, Lives & works in Brighton, UK.

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Kate Phillips is a self-taught artist, having rejected what she saw as the strictures of formal art training and production early on in order to develop an authentic artistic language. She has now been practicing art professionally since 2014. Her creative output is predominantly sculptural and installation based, often playing with scale to destabilise and to subvert, and employing a wide variety of materials and processes, she is also interested in the part intuition and serendipity play in the making of art. Her intention is to explore our complex fears and the preconceptions and misconceptions we face daily to enable a greater understanding and perhaps find a deeper meaning.

By working primarily with found objects and materials Kate Phillips draws on and creates a language of things, building layered, often uncomfortable, narratives to say the unsayable, but to also glimpse the very essence of these things, and show the latent potential for renewal their transformation can hold.

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" I have always had a relationship with the wider world through playing with materials, it was, and is, how I attempt to traverse the often inexplicable and difficult terrain... so I arrived at making art inevitably. And arrived at pursuing it as a career via a circuitous route that took in motherhood , grandmotherhood, and studying for a degree in Art History, amongst other things. My starting point is always the personal, though this intrinsically becomes the universal through entering into a dialogue... one of shared experiences, ideas and emotions... or simply one between the materials themselves"