Tom Phillips
"The Uncommon Reader: Fifty years if Textual Intercourse"
Exhibiting at the "Henmans Gallery", Oxfordshire Museum
24th October - 15th November 2009
The Uncommon Reader is an exhibition that explores the wide-ranging literary associations in the work of celebrated writer, composer and artist Tom Phillips.
It features selections from his illustrations to Plato’s Symposium, Waiting for Godot, Ulysses and his own translation of Dante’s Inferno.
Also included in the exhibition are portraits of writers such as Samuel Beckett, David Rudkin and Salman Rushdie, a book jacket design for Iris Murdoch and a fragment of The Library at Elsinore installation; a selection from the artist's treated Victorian novel, A Humument.
Tom Phillips is well known for works that combine text with image. In this exhibition we see some recent sculptures in wire made from pure lettering that quote from Henry James and from Wittgenstein’s Tractacus. Also on display will be a selection from the artist’s enormous photographic postcard archive project, We are the People, on the theme of readers.
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Exhibition is sponsored by Henmans LLP - Oxford's premier law firm. www.henmansllp.co.uk
Also included in the exhibition are portraits of writers such as Samuel Beckett, David Rudkin and Salman Rushdie, a book jacket design for Iris Murdoch and a fragment of The Library at Elsinore installation. Tom Phillips is well known for works that combine text with image. In this exhibition we see some recent sculptures in wire made from pure lettering that quote from Henry James and from Wittgenstein’s Tractacus. Also on display will be a selection from the artist’s enormous photographic postcard archive project, We are the People, on the theme of readers.
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