EXHIBITIONS
   

 

Zen and the art of cities

 

Other shows:

Housing & Homelessness
Cities in Watercolour
The City Beautiful
City Journeys
City Markets


 

 

Peckham
Meditation

Tom Phillips
(b 1937)

 

 

Walk to the studio: matching colours struck by heatwave, 1976

Screenprint,
edition of 11

 

 

 

 

 

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Tom Phillips has long been fascinated by, in his own words, 'the artistic possibilities of everyday life'. Among several other London projects in the 1970s, he produced a series of five silkscreen prints inspired by his daily walk from his home in Peckham to his studio. Two of these are exhibited her: Stopcock-box-lids - supreme example of an artist's ability to make yo contemplate things you had never noticed before - and Matching colours struck by heatwate, matchbox trays in progressive states of bleaching as they remained exposed on the street in the hot summer of 1976.

By way of contrast, One Bus - Two Londons emphasises the social boundaries traversed by the No 12 bus on its route from the capital's emblematic monuments to the less salubrious settings of daily life in South London.

 
         
 
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