Phillip Reeves

Available Works

In The Studio

Biography

Phillip Reeves (b.1985, UK) works primarily with stories and narratives and have become increasingly interested in how clothing can become a costume for a character to be recognised in and reacted to according to predetermined behavioral tropes within a scenario. Taking the psychology of fashion as an undercurrent, Phillip features people and objects in works multiple times, seeing them as reoccurring characters on different sets perhaps akin to a time traveling soap opera. Phillip likes to produce work about ideas he hears, things he reads, especially stories. If the stories have been falsely elaborated - then Phillip likes them even more. The idea of making a record of history or a third hand account perhaps wayward from the truth interests him - but not with all Phillip's works. Some of the works are a private joke. Phillip lives and works in London, UK.

Education

Diploma, Turps Art School, 2020-2022

MFA, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2015-2018

Diploma, School of The Damned, 2014-2015

Press

2022, Phillip Reeves, Floorr Magazine

2021, Friday Focus: Phillip Reeves, Parapluie

2017, Phillip Reeves, Yng Magazine

Exhibitions

2021, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, UK (Group)
2021, Painter Stainers Masters, London, UK (Group)
2021, The Newhaven Open, Newhaven, USA (Group)
2021, Art Car Boot Fair, UK (Group)
2021, Medium Rare, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK (Group)
2020, Paper Clothes, Contrebande, Manifesta, Marsaille, France (Solo)
2019, Airports and Wigs, Husk, London, UK (Solo)
2019, Sausage Pile Up, Exposed Art Projects, London, UK (Solo)
2019, Sausage Pile Up, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland (Solo)
2019, Linqua Franca, PQH, Rainbow Wave, Camden, London, UK (Group)
2019, RE: Bermondsey Art Group, Southwark Park Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2019, Notice The Small Things, Jealous Gallery, Shoreditch, London, UK (Group)
2019, Insider Art, Phillips Auction House, Mayfair, London, UK (Group)
2019, BEAM, Greenhaus, Bethnal Green, London, UK (Group)
2019, Jealous Art Prize, Jealous North, Crouch End, London, UK (Group)
2019, Jealous Art Prize, Jealous East, Shoreditch, London, UK (Group)
2019, Queensbridge Primary Charity Auction, Hackney, London, UK (Group)
2019, London Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair, London, UK (Group)
2019, Tactile Amnesia, PQH, 15 Bateman St, Soho, London, UK (Group)
2019, Art Rooms, Great Portland St, London, UK (Group)
2018, Visions at The Nunnery with Bedwyr Williams, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK (Group)
2018, CPG Annual Open, CPG Gallery, Southwark Park, London, UK (Group)
2018, Immersive Innovation, WeWork, Old Street, London, UK (Group)
2018, The Graduate Art Prize, Herbert Smith Freehills, London, UK (Group)
2018, Tetris Hang, Family House Space, Newcross, London, UK (Group)
2018, Newhaven Open, UTC, Newhaven, USA (Group)
2018, Conspiracy of The Real, Tenderpixel, Cecil Court, London, UK (Group)
2017, Sausage Pile Up, Vesterbro Showrooms, Copenhagen, Denmark (Solo)
2017, Et Tu Arte Brut?, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Bowery, New York, USA (Group)
2017, Deptford X Festival, Goldsmiths Open, Deptford, London, UK (Group)
2017, Sluice Biennial with Hospital Rooms, Bohemia Walk, Hackney, London, UK (Group)
2017, The Lynn Painter - Stainers Art Prize, The Guildhall, Guildford, UK (Group)
2017, The Lynn Painter - Stainers Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London, UK (Group)
2017, The Denton Art Prize, One Fleet Place, London, UK (Group)
2016, Fantasy, De Flore, Yongsan Gu, Souel, South Korea (Group)
2016, SNAKEHORSEGOATMONKEY, Guest Projects, Yinka Shonibare Studio, London, UK (Group)
2016, Sunridge Avenue Projects with Martin Creed and Dom From Luton, Luton, UK (Group)
2016, School of The Damned End of Year Show, Lewisham Art House, London, UK (Group)
2015, School of The Damned, The South London Gallery, Peckham, London, UK (Group)
2015, Ways of Looking, School of The Damned, Hanover Project, University of Lancs, UK (Group)
2015, Rausschmeisser, School of The Damned, Vulpes Vulpes, Bermondsey, London, UK (Group)
2015, School of The Damned Interim Show, 2 Queens, Leicester, UK (Group)
2015, Roulade, Husk Gallery, Limehouse, London, UK (Group)
2015, Buzzed, Phillips Auction House, Mayfair, London, UK (Group)
2015, R.A.M, School of The Damned, Mother Studios, Hackney Wick, London, UK (Group)
2014, Paper Walls, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland (Solo)
2014, Abandoned Land: Sharp Continent, Vitrine Gallery, London, UK (Solo)
2014, Paul Smith at Frieze Week, Paul Smith Mayfair, London, UK (Group)
2013, Embassy of Foreign Artists, Carouge, Geneva (Group)
2013, Reformed Church of Latter Day Paddling Pools, South Bermondsey, London, UK (Group)
2013, Summer Show, Phillips Auction House, Victoria, London, UK (Group)
2013, Small Works Show, Skylight Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA (Group)
2013, Pulse Art Fair, Hous Projects Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA (Group)
2013, Piece by Piece, Skylight Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA (Group)
2012, Vytlacil Artist in Residency Exhibition, Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill, New York, USA (Solo)
2012, Crystal Walk, New York Factory Studios, Brooklyn, New York, USA (Solo)
2012, The Head and The Whole II, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, UK (Group)
2012, Show Off, Phillips de Pury Auction House, Victoria, London, UK (Group)
2012, Painters, The Old Fire Station, Islington, London, UK (Group)
2012, Figure Fragments, The Coin Locker Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA (Group)
2012, Black, Cultivate Gallery, Vyner Street, London, UK (Group)
2011, Bludgeoned by Moonlight, Copenhagen Place, London, UK (Solo)
2011, The Ghost In The Machine, The Others Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2011, The Flophouse Fringe, Main Yard Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2010, Exhibition of International Artists, Brauy, France (Group)
2009, The Mountain of Fire and Miracles, Main Yard Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2009, My Zeitgeist is Getting All Sticky, Main Yard Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2008, The Shipping Forecast, The Foundry, London, UK (Solo)
2008, With Kithkin and Designers Block, Milan, Italy (Group)
2007, With KithKin and Designers Block, Tokyo, Japan (Group)
2007, New London Artists Print Making Show, J:Akebono-so Gallery, Gunma, Japan (Group)