Phil Root
Born Northamptonshire, UK, 1984
Goldsmiths College, London 2003 - 2006
Currently lives and works in Bristol
In 2011 founded The Grantchester Pottery with Giles Round
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016
The Grantchester Photographic Society, Camden Arts Centre, London
Looking at people, looking at art, curated by Mark Essen, Division of Labour, London
In this soup we swim, curated by Dan Howard-Birt, Kingsgate Workshop, London
Folly, Emalin, Dunmore Pineapple, Scotland
Uncommon Chemistry, Lido Projects, Observer Bld, Hastings
2015
London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
The Grantchester Pottery paints the stage, Jerwood Space, London
2014
Phantom Limb, Spacex, Exeter
Shade, Tweleve Around One, London Nick Jensen, Christian Newby, Phil Root, Ben Sansbury & Fred Sorrell
Kyoto, 2004, Backdrop Commission, Jerwood Space, London
Circus TM, Belmacz, London
House of Voltaire, Studio Voltaire at 39-40 Albermarle Street, London
The Influence of Furniture on Love, Wysing Grange, Cambridgeshire
Pleasure, Devotion, Balance, curated by Mexico, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2013
Billboard Commission, Zero Hours, Art Sheffield Biennial, Sheffield
Artist Decorators, ICA, London
Studio Wares, David Dale, Glasgow
Grand Magasin, French Riviera, London
Mud and Water, Rokeby, London
Publish & Be Damned, ICA, London
Every Bird Brings a Different Song to the Garden, curated by Amy Botfield and Robert Dowling
No Format, London
2012
All This Took Place in Much Less Time Than It Takes To Tell, Hidde van Seggelen, London
Mountain, Belmacz, London
Décor, Rowing, London
By_You_By_Me_By_We, Twelve Around One, London
House of Voltaire, Studio Voltaire at Jonathan Viner Gallery, London
Publish & Be Damned, ICA, London
Summer Fayre, Outpost Gallery, Norwich
The Language of the Flowers & the Stars, Cubitt, London
Grantchester Ices, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
2011
Wood Painting, Permanent Gallery, Brighton
Slipped, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
The Institue of Mental Health is Burning, Newport Museum, Wales
Phil Filby & Rob Root, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
2010
A Still Life with Lemons, Hidde van Seggelen, London
RESIDENCIES
2016
Camden Arts Centre, Ceramics Fellowship, London
2011
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
2010
A Curriculum, A Foundation, Liverpool
2007
Atelier Milchhof, Berlin
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2016
Scarborough Open Air Theatre, Scarborough
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
2016
Looking at people, looking at art, This is Tomorrow, July
2015
Jessica Lack, Mashed-Up Moderns, World of Interiors, March
2014
Skye Sherwin, The Guardian, July
Jessica Mairs, The Influence of Furniture on Love, ICON, October
Jonathan P Watts, The Influence of Furniture on Love, Art Monthly, November
2013
Quadrant, Conversations on Art, Twelve Around One Gallery, London
Claire Walsh, Q+A, Site unseen, August
Anne Bellamy, Artist Decorators: The Grantchester Pottery at the ICA, Blueprint Magazine
2012
All This Took Place in Much Less Time Than it Takes to Tell, Hidde van Seggelen
Décor, This is Tomorrow
Lucy Wilson, Interview, March
2010
Turps Banana, Andy Holden on Phil Root