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Phil King is a British artist born in 1965 in Bristol, England. He spent part of his childhood in France where his father worked on the Concorde project. King received his bachelor's degree in fine art from Bath Academy of Art in 1987 and his master's from Goldsmiths College in 1993. King works in a range of styles and explores ideas around artistic identity and collections. He has lived in both the UK and US, exhibiting widely. Currently based in rural Suffolk, he is working on essays, translations, and collaborations with other artists.
Phil King is a British artist born in 1965 in Bristol, England. He spent part of his childhood in France where his father worked on the Concorde project. King received his bachelor's degree in fine art from Bath Academy of Art in 1987 and his master's from Goldsmiths College in 1993. King works in a range of styles and explores ideas around artistic identity and collections. He has lived in both the UK and US, exhibiting widely. Currently based in rural Suffolk, he is working on essays, translations, and collaborations with other artists.
Phil King is a British artist born in 1965 in Bristol, England. He spent part of his childhood in France where his father worked on the Concorde project. King received his bachelor's degree in fine art from Bath Academy of Art in 1987 and his master's from Goldsmiths College in 1993. King works in a range of styles and explores ideas around artistic identity and collections. He has lived in both the UK and US, exhibiting widely. Currently based in rural Suffolk, he is working on essays, translations, and collaborations with other artists.
"Rather than a coherent linear progression I find my work in relation, bringing
together pieces made in different places and circumstances and presenting them as a body. I exploit the synthetic nature of classic modern art to frame my experience, to create it to some extent, relishing the power of its absolute artistic nature, and yet then putting it to up 'for grabs' relational life."
Born in Bristol England in 1965 Phil King at the age of three went to live in Toulouse France as his father was an aircraft engineer on the multinational Concorde project. His mother was a Welsh painter who had some recognition in Wales in the 1950s.
Returning to Bristol in 1973 he went to Filton High School where his talent was put to use designing and painting theatre sets. In 1987 receiving his bachelor of Fine Art (hons) in Painting at Bath Academy of Art. where studied with the painter Peter Kinley and alongside the artist Glenn Brown. He began to write poetry and art appreciation in conjunction with his painting, developing an interest in the problem of artistic voice and the framing of identity. An attempt to integrate the cultural differences between industrial England and Southern France is maybe a factor in his ongoing compulsion for disruptive synthesis.
Moving to London at an intense time for the arts in the capital he worked for many years in the Tate Gallery publications department enjoying continual access to the collections and the visiting exhibitions.
He completed his M.A in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College in London in 1993. In the same year he presented cut out modern sculptures in the Economist Plaza London as a cheap form of public art.
Responsible for writing press release texts and catalogue essays at the request of many of his colleagues, including Glenn Brown, Rebecca Warren and Fergal Stapleton, he also organised and helped organise a number of independent art shows and spaces, including Somethings Wrong with the artist Bob and Roberta Smith in 1995.
His painting and drawing developed out his passion for art history and the continual now-ness of art. This became manifest in his interest in collections and his work became organised to reflect its being a body of work that acts organically out of time. Works from different periods act together when dealt in the form of Triptych groupings; indicating partial narratives, open to possible readings and yet maintaining their own nature and unique pictorial drama. The rigidity of artistic identity is put in question as a given. As this project has developed it has meant that he has found the freedom to paint spontaneously in a range of styles and approaches and yet keep a suprising but recognisable je ne sais quoi.
Travelling between England, France and the USA in a wide range of employments and occupations that feed into his artwork and thinking, King lived in California for four years, exhibiting regularly and finding a synthesis between the Latin and Anglo Saxon there. His backlog of imagined art projects gave him the ability to prepare a large installation for the Oakland Summer Film Festival at short notice, an installation of large wooden frames that articulated a minimalist comedy and the possibilities of disappointment. He also installed a pair of cardboard spectacles in a memorial casket at the Oakland Chapel of the Chimes. Using his industrial laser cutting experience he presented a larger group of laser cut objects at Kala Arts in Berkeley in 2013.
He is currently developing a collection of essays on Modern Art and has recently completed a new translation of Genet's L'Atelier d'Alberto Giacometti illustrated with new works by Marc Camille Chaimowiczt being published by Grey Tiger Books. London 2014.
Currently based in the Suffolk Countryside, an area unfamiliar to him and yet fortuitously a heartland of British Landscape painting, he is currently painting paintings inspired by watching the world cup and his hopeless attempts at learning Chinese. Once an overly active member of the writer, artist and broadcaster, Matthew Collings Facebook Art School, his writing has flourished and he has currently an essay on Paul Klee being edited for Turps Banana art magazine in London.
A great believer in Art as shared engagement and opportunity for discussion he has collaborated with a number of artists, and is working with the French/Welsh artist Pascal Michel Dubois on a show of Collections to be exhibited in Cardiff. There is also a collaboration underway on a show with the Californian painter Christina McPhee in California called Radiant Edge and an ongoing project with the Art Historian Joni Spigler on the nature of collecting.
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