Tom Phillips, 1997
Featured this month:
COLOUR CATALOGUES AND TERMINAL GREYS : Everything he's ever painted, cooked down and laid out on canvas.
A HUMUMENT : The Final Pages of the 1970 Edition
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
COURTAULD INSTITUTE
East Wing Collection
Through 2002
Work: Song of Myself wire piece.
ROYAL INSTITUTION, London
Ongoing
Works: Susan Greenfield studies and DVD portrait.
1 November 2001
COMPLETING THE SET
In his essay on the self-portrait series Curriculum Vitae Tom writes, "Most children like sets of things. The stamp and cigarette-card collecting, however, usually become, with the chemistry sets and rainbow rows of coloured pencils, transmuted in adulthood into filing systems and golf clubs."
We readers of the Tom Phillips website have become collectors over the past year, amassing images of the first printed edition of A HUMUMENT thirty images at at time. This month marks the last of those images, bringing us to a complete set!
Lilting in a similar melody are the paintings known as Colour Catalogues and Terminal Greys. They comprise the scrapings from Tom's palette at the end of every day for the last three decades. Are they unlocking a deep secret -- answer to a question thirty years in the asking?
One thing is certain: it's the work of an artist ever in search of his own complete set of himself.
Cheers,
JOHN NICK PULL, editor.
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