Joshua Phillips
For a Long Time Now I Have Fallen to Sleep With The TV Turned On
At its core, Joshua Phillips’s practice examines how symbolism operates across decorative visual culture and how ornament can function to provide a momentary platform for aesthetic pleasure within the everyday. This work seeks to acknowledge the stages of visual reception and examines the withdrawal of purpose inherent in the act of looking at patterns.
Photography is used in the work to emphasize the act of looking from both the perspective of the viewer and the camera’s relation to its subject. The artist’s recent work has focused on the idea of how recognizable imagery is stylized and blended into design, in particular the use of nature as a motif.
Joshua Phillips is an artist living and working in London. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2017 with an M.A. in Photography and has previously lived and worked in Manchester where he studied for his BA in Photography at the Manchester School of Art. Past exhibitions include Telling Tales – a group show in association with OpenEye Gallery as part of the Liverpool Biennial Fringe 2016 and Species of Spaces 2016- Photography Project Space, an experimental artist run exhibition programme. He is currently involved in the Outset Residency Programme on Baker Street London where he continues to work on his practice alongside other participating artists.