Phillip uses painting, performance, installation and film to create characters and motifs based around fictional narratives that he has been exploring for many years. Some of his more recent works include what he loosely describes as costume design - using oil paint applied to dressmaker's paper, he has produced a series of life size paper cutout painting/clothing combinations, removed from the confines of the painted canvas, creating a surreal yet body-related presence and connection to a fiction and reality beyond our own.
Noh masks have been a constant in Phillip Reeve's work for many years. This piece is based upon a parade of characters in seen the street by the artist. Philip has used these characters repeatedly in different settings, imagining them performing a time travelling soap opera that he creates sets for, ready for them to act scenes out in.
The imagary in this work involves uniforms and hierarchies, pomp and ceremony. Here we see the brave and strong captains of the army, being piggy backed to shore by servants, like spoiled kittens avoiding a puddle.
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This film was spawned from Phillip's performance piece, Sausages. Rather than make a simple document of the performance, he decided to embellish it wiht an added narrative: As the spoils of war are unceremoniously dumped upon the factory floor, the mysterious appearance of a young woman in a blue dress adds intrigue to the finale, as the dirt laden air thickens the vacuous atmosphere that surrounds this culinary art noir spectacle.
A hand-painted, hand-cut paper kimono, part of Phillip Reeves' Paper Clothes series. Each piece in this series is comprised of individual paper components, hand cut from dressmaker's paper and hand painted in oil paint by the artist. The Paella motif comes from a personal story of the artist, where he made a restaurant quality paella using only basic utensils, completely astounding his guests.
A hand-painted, hand-cut paper kimono, part of Phillip Reeves' Paper Clothes series. Each piece in this series is comprised of individual paper components, hand cut from dressmaker's paper and hand painted in oil paint by the artist. The character of The Beekeeper is a frequent reoccurrence in Phillip Reeve's work. Here, he removes the person inside the costume and presents the basic items needed to create a Beekeeper.
2017 Sausage Pile Up, Vesterbro Showroom, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Paper Walls, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2014 Abandoned Land: Sharp Continent, Vitrine Gallery, London
2012 Vytlacil Artist in Residency Exhibition, Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill, New York
2012 Crystal Walk, New York Factory Studios, Brooklyn, New York
2011 Bludgeoned by Moonlight, Copenhagen Place, London
2008 The Shipping Forecast, The Foundry, London
2019 Art Rooms, The Lancaster Hotel, London
2018 Bog Standard, Morelands, Old Street, London
2018 Visions at The Nunnery with Bedwyr Williams, Bow Arts Trust, London
2018 Immersive Innovation II, WeWork, Old Street, London
2018 CPG Annual Open, CPG Gallery, Southwark Park, London
2018 Immersive Innovation, WeWork, Old Street, London
2018 The Graduate Art Prize, Herbert Smith Freehills, London
2018 Tetris Hang, Family House Space, New Cross, London
2018 Newhaven Open, UTC Harborside, Newhaven, East Sussex
2018 Summer Exhibition, Phillips, Mayfair, London
2018 Wytham Hall Painting Prize, Wytham Hall, Maida Vale, London
2018 Conspiracy of The Real, Tenderpixel Gallery, Cecil Court, London
2018 ‘Sausages’ screened at Wilds Rents, London Bridge, London
2018 ‘Sausages’ screened at Play Button Film Festival, Chennai, India
2017 Et Tu, Art Brute? Andrew Edlin Gallery, Bowery, New York
2017 PIY Paint Lounge, Sluice Biennial, Bohemia Place, Hackney, London
2017 Deptford X Festival, Goldsmiths Studios, Deptford, London
2017 The Lynn Painter - Stainers Art Prize, The Guildhall, Guildford
2017 The Lynn Painter - Stainers Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2017 The Dentons Art Prize, One Fleet Place, London
2016 Radar, Phillips Auction House, Mayfair, London
2016 Fantasy, De Flore, Yongsan Gu, Seoul, South Korea
2016 SNAKEHORSEGOATMONKEY, Guest Projects, Yinka Shonibare Studio, London
2016 Sunridge Avenue Projects with Dom From Luton, Dom's Mum's House, Luton
2016 School Of The Damned End Of Year Exhibition, Lewisham Art House, London
2015 School Of The Damned at The South London Gallery, Peckham, London
2015 Ways Of Looking, School Of The Damned, Hanover Projects, University of Lancashire
2015 Rausschmeisser, School Of The Damned, Vulpes Vulpes, Bermondsey, London
2015 School Of The Damned Interim Show, 2 Queens, Leicester
2015 Roulade, Husk Gallery, Limehouse, London
2015 The Garden Project With Natalie Sanders, Stoke Newington, London
2015 Buzzed, Phillips Auction House, Mayfair, London
2015 R.A.M, School Of The Damned, Mother Studios, Hackney Wick, London
2014 Paul Smith at Frieze, Mayfair, London
2014 Embassy of Foreign Artists, Carouge, Geneva
2014 John Peacock Gallery, Maiden Erlegh Alumni Exhibition, Reading, England
2013 Reformed Church of Latter Day Paddling Pools, South Bermondsey, London
2013 Summer Show, Phillips Auction House, Victoria, London
2013 Small Works Show, Skylight Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2013 Pulse Art Fair with Hous Projects Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2013 Piece by Piece, Skylight Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2018 Studio Residency and Solo Exhibition at Husk Gallery, Limehouse
2018 Performance at Caberet Zoltaire, as part of curator Vlada Tcharyeva’s performance programme at the home of DADA in Zurich
2018 Winner of The Wytham Hall Painting Prize, selected by Vanessa Jackson RA, Sacha Craddock, Danny Rolph and Daniel Sturgis
2017 Shortlisted for The Dentons Art Prize, curated by Niamh White
2017 Selected for The Lynn Painter - Stainers Prize Exhibition
2015 - 2016 The School of The Damned
2014 Artist in Residence at Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva
2014 Artist Scholarship from Canton of Geneva
2012 Awarded The Elizabeth V. Sullivan Scholarship at The Arts Students League of New York
2012 Artist in Residence at The Vytlacil School of The Arts Students League of New York
