His work ranges from conventional oils on canvas to multi-media compositions and collages to sculptures and architecture.
As an originator of Pop art, Peter Phillips trained at the Royal College of Art with his contemporaries David Hockney,
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Biography of Peter Phillips
His work ranges from conventional oils on canvas to multi-media compositions and collages to sculptures and architecture.
As an originator of Pop art, Peter Phillips trained at the Royal College of Art with his contemporaries David Hockney, Allen Jones, R.B. Kitaj and others figures in British Pop Art. Between 1959 and 1962, he saw reproductions of work by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg ; he was particularly aligned to American culture and reflected its commercial iconography and aggressive advertising style in his dynamic montage paintings. In 1963, he was represented at the Paris Biennale, and in 1964 his work was included in the Pop Art exhibition shown at the Hague, Vienna and Berlin.
When he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship, in 1964, he moved to New York, where he exhibited alongside American counterparts Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist. In 1965, he had his first one-man exhibition at the Kornblee Gallery, New York.
Phillips later returned to Europe, and from 1968 to 1969, he was guest teacher at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. In 1970, Peter Phillips married Claude Marion Xylander and they made frequent trips throughout Africa, the Far East, and the United States. Throughout the decade of the seventies, the Phillips' resided in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1972, Phillips had a retrospective at the Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, and in 1976 at the Tate Gallery, London. One year later, Peter Phillips had a retrospective in Milan.
Other important exhibitions of his work will be organized in the 80s, 90s and 2000s (in particular, in 2002, at the Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy).
Peter Phillips resides again to day in Europe, where he continues to paint and exhibit. He travels frequently to New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sydney. Over thirty of his prints are in the Tate Collection.
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