Richard Phoenix, HEAD (rosie) (2022)
Oil on canvas
25.5 x 20 cm
Richard’s practice encompasses painting, writing, music and learning how these things can support people to be together. He aims to create work that is bright, fluid and embraces imperfection, mirroring qualities in the world he wants to see himself. Featuring both real and imagined individuals as subjects, using them to explore how our interactions with each other can reveal questions about how the world is structured.
Arriving at painting not through formal education but through many years playing in D.I.Y. bands and working within learning disability arts as creative support, these experiences profoundly influence the way I approach making and thinking about art.
Richard has been included in artist development programmes such as, 2022 - 2023 - Flatlands Early Career Studio Programme & 2018 – 2021 - Conditions Studio Programme. He has also exhibited in Notable exhibitions: 2024 - Peer to Peer: Capturing Surroundings - Wanigrupa Gallery, Bandung, Indonesia, 2023 - The Spinners - Flatlands Projects, Bexhill-on-Sea, 2022 - My burger is about fair and equal - Colden’s, St Leonard’s-on-Sea, 2022 - Helping Hands - Sanford Vitrine, London, 2021 – RIDE - Big Rat Studios, Hastings, 2021 – Zoomin’ - with Robin Smith - Skelf, Online, 2021 – The Drum Also - Conditions project space, London.
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