Profile
Georgie Phipps
A continuing fascination for what lies unnoticed beneath our feet took me back to some themes around which I developed my creativity; as a fifteen year old I made a plaster cast of pipes representing the London Underground map. I have returned to maps and typography through the ambitious construction of site specific manhole covers with my personal designs in ceramic. With a background in Book Arts and Sculpture, I have developed my ideas through experiential installations. In the past this involved some site-specific projects in churches and green spaces; eventually documenting the work turned into the work itself, hence the focus on artists’ books. The manhole cover became my book with a title and a narrative within the pattern in relief. Drains and wells have prompted sculptural explorations in porcelain about pipes, and connections have been manifesting in viaducts.
Since lockdown and a daily drawing routine my focus has become more abstract: visualising spiralling geometric forms through line and progressing into colour. I’ve explored sgraffito techniques using black and white and then coloured slips. More recently I’ve been making ceramic stamps from my collections of found objects which I’ve been pressing into the surfaces of colour in order to achieve a multi-coloured effect. I’m combining this surface decoration with three dimensional spiralling forms in clay.
10/22 Bodily Impressions The Map is Not the Territory, NSA Show at Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance
04/22 Kiln View ‘Memory’ NSA Show at Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance
10/21 Cosmic Cylinders ‘NSA 125 Past Present Future’ NSA Show at Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance
06/20 The Windmills of My Mind, Video Screening & Ceramic Installation ‘Looking Forward’ NSA Show at Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance
10/20 Moths & Viaducts, ‘Edge of Dark’ NSA Show at Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance
02/20 Well Shafts I, II, III ‘The Human Condition’ Heseltine Gallery, Truro.
09/19 In the Absence of Viaducts ‘NSA On View’ Tremenheere Gallery
04/19 – 10/19 Manhole Cover for Burghley, Form & Function, Burghley Sculpture Park, Lincolnshire
04/19 – 10/19 Viaduct Stack, Cotswold Sculpture Park.
04/19 ‘Ex Libris’ Newlyn Society of Artists’ Show at Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance
09/18 ‘On View’ Newlyn Society of Artists’ Show at Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance
14/09/18 – 16/09/18 ‘Form & Formality’ Breeze Art Fair, Trereife Park, Penzance
05//05/18 – 30/05/18 ‘Drawing Explored’ Newlyn Society of Artists Show at Tremenheere Gallery, Penzanc
03/09/17 – 24/09/17 ‘Critic’s Choice’ Newlyn Society of Artists’ Show at Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance
24/02/18 ‘Pipe Dreams’ Ceramic Installation Hellebore Day, Bosvigo House & Gardens, Truro
23/05/17 – 27/05/17 ‘Page Turner’ Lemon Quay, Truro
05/03/17 – 26/03/17 ‘Borders’ Newlyn Society of Artists’ Show at Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance
18/02/17 ‘Well Shafts’ Ceramic Installation Hellebore Day, Bosvigo House & Gardens, Truro
22/10/16 – 30/10/16 Cornwall Ceramics & Glass Group Exhibition, The Old Lifeboat Studio, Porthleven
11/09/15 – 29/09/15 Cornwall Ceramics & Glass Group Exhibition, Bodmin Shire Hall
19/05/15 – 22/05/15 Tenth Show Lemon Quay, Truro.
20/05/14 – 24/05/14 Horizons Show, Lemon Quay, Truro.
21/05/13 – 25/05/13 White Out Show, Lemon Quay, Truro.
10/2006 – 11/2006 Scroll Spaces, Helston Folk Museum, Helston
28/02/05 – 30/02/05 ft winter open: Survey Show, Florence Trust. Highbury Fields, London
06/07/04 – 10/07/04 Opening the Book, MA Book Arts Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London
15/05/04 – 23/05/04 Perpendicular, Site-specific Sculpture Exhibition, St Nicholas’ Church, Gloucester
15/08/03 – 22/08/03 Diving For Pearls, Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham Racecourse
27/06/03 – 03/07/03 Degree Show, Pittville Campus, Cheltenham
24/01/03 – 07/02/03 Chapter & Verse, Site specific Exhibition, All Saints Church, Cheltenham,
10/09/02 – 20/10/02 ‘If you go down to the woods today….’ Dean Heritage Centre, Forest of Dean.
06/04/02 K3 Opening Exhibiton, Haardstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland
07/03/02 – 22/03/02 Revelation; Site Specific Exhibition at Francis Close Hall Chapel, Cheltenham
25/01/02 School’s Open Day Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais, Sierre 3960 Switzerland
10/05/01 – 15/05/01 Locations 2001, Gloucester Docks
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES:
07/15 – Present Day Member of the Newlyn Society of Artists
13/06/15 – Present Day Membership of the Cornwall Ceramics & Glass Group
09/ 03 – 07/04 A.H.R.B. – full fees and maintenance grant for one year MA.
08/ 04 – 07/05 One Year Residency at Florence Trust Studios, St. Saviour’s Church, Highbury, London.
07/05 – 12/05 Photography Studio, The Old Post Office, Grampound. Cornwall
10/01 – 03/02 Five Month Exchange, Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais, Sierre 3960 Switzerland.
