Annotations was a series of artist commissions for Drawing Room’s Outset Study. Including 6 artists over a 3-year period, each artist undertook a period of supported residency, researching the library collection to create a work for Outset Study – using the wall, the space, or intervening within the library collection itself.
Working across video, sculpture, drawing, music, text and live events, Heather Phillipson‘s works stake out an ambiguous territory in which cultural references and emotional responses are mutually contingent and reactive.
For her Annotations 2 commission titled ENDING ALL PARTIES / EXCEPT THE PARTY / WHERE U MEET YOUR OWN BRAIN, Phillipson transposes her methods of collage and conglomeration to the Outset Study. Occupying the wall space with digital collage, drawing and text, Phillipson summons and answers back to current crises – relaying and augmenting feelings and gestures of chronic unease, protest and dissent.
Heather Phillipson (b. 1978 London, UK) lives and works in London, UK. Studied at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK (2001); PhD at Central St Martins College of Arts and Design, London (2004); and Middlesex University, UK (2008). Working across video, sculpture, drawing, music, text and live events, Philipson’s works stake out an ambiguous territory in which cultural references and emotional responses are mutually contingent and reactive. She is an award-winning poet and has published three volumes of poetry including a pamphlet with Faber & Faber (2009); NOT AN ESSAY (2012); and Instant-flex 718, with Bloodaxe (2013) which was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize ( 2013) and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. She was named a Next Generation Poet (2014) and received Poetry Magazine’s Friends of Literature prize (2016) and The Film London Jarman Award (2016). Phillipson was awarded the Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, UK (2020).
ON VIEW: 9th March – 18th August 2017