My Mother at 18 and 88
Oil on canvas
71.1 x 91.5 cm, 1989

The items at right comprise essays, exhibitions, and publications from 1965 through 2005.

Tom was always a rebel. I can remember his homework books with drawings on every available space. Often he was sent home from school. To me the drawings looked like gargoyles.

Margaret Agnes Phillips, from the autobiographical essay The Artist's Mother

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS

Recent & Selected Portraits 1989-2004
57 in '80: Tom's Studio during the Production of INFERNO
We Are the People: Selections & Essays
We Are the People: Multimedia Presentation
Woven Music: Works & Tapestries (Lisbon 2002)
10 Faces by Tom Phillips
Benches at 30
Drawing on Music: Fort Worth 2001
Dulwich / South London 1997
The Portrait Works: National Portrait Gallery 1989
Dartington 1971

ESSAYS BY TOM

Adventures of a Crown
Forms of Translation
The Nature of Ornament: A Summary Treatise, 2002
On Libraries
Optical Magic (Hockney review)
Portraits: Essay from the NPG Catalogue 1989
WAtP: My Father the Boxer

ESSAYS ABOUT TOM

The Artist's Mother by Margaret Agnes Phillips
Donnish Quixote by Susannah Frankel
How We Met by Brian Eno and Tom Phillips
The Portrait Works: Foreward by John Hayes
The Portrait Works: Preface by Bill Hurrell
Rima and El Greco by Jane Ure-Smith
Sacred & Profane: Introduction by Bill Hurrell
Trick or Treatment by Steve Xerri
Vienna then: Peckham Now!, by N. Rosenthal
WAtP: The Charm of the Ordinary by Kevin Jackson
WAtP: Return to Sender by Matthew Sweet
Wish You Were Here, by Simon Callow

EXHIBITION LISTINGS (through 1997)

One Man Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions

PRESS RELEASES

The Postcard Century, 2000
Red Handed with Lucy, 2003
Works on Literary Themes, 2003

BIBLIOGRAPHIES (through 1997)

Publications by Tom Phillips
Publications on Tom Phillips