Swimming to Hades
18 May - 9 June 2024
Phillip George
Phillip George
Phillip George is an Australian artist whose photographic, sculptural, video, installation based works have been shown internationally. His projects are created in relation to the collisions of East and West within cultural &/or historically resonant sites.
George’s photographic and video installations are distinctive through their seamless integration of diverse historical continuum. His vivid condensation of artistically and scientific analogies contributes to the resolution of particularly difficult millennial double bind occupying theorists and artist nationally and internationally.
George’s practice focusses on concepts of contrivance and the handmade, through which we can retrace the artists specific trajectory throughout the discourse on art, photography and politics –that ranges from the conceptual debates in art to the technological shifts from analogue to the digital. Georges’ practice and extensive travels gives form to his contrapuntal perceptions within contemporary art.
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C_Type print
80cm x 180cm
1 of 6, 1 A/P
$8,600
1. Palmyra_1 2023
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$8,600
2. Palmyra_Khima-Persepolis 2024
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$8,600
3. Palmyra_Ain Dara 2024
Video - run time 15 minutes - 4K & 2k - edition 1/ 8 & AP
Sound design by Phillip George / audio includes commissioned singing byIsokratisdess - the Albanian /Greek - polyphonic group
$8,500
4. Swimming to Hades 2024
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$8,600
5. Amalek 2024
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6. Smyrna Landscape 2024
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80cm x 180cm
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$8,600
7. Palmyra_ 2 2023C_Type print
180cm x 112cm
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$8,800
8. Smyrna 2023
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180cm x 112cm
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$8,800
9. Alexandria 2023
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180cm x 112cm
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$8,800
10. Baia 2023
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180cm x 112cm
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$8,800 - Not in exhibition but available
11. Isphan 2024C_Type print
180cm x 112cm
1 of 6, 1 A/P
$8,800 Not in exhibition but available
12. Alexandria_# 2 2024Phillip George C.V.
EDUCATION
University of Western Sydney Doctorate of Creative Arts
University of NSW Masters of Fine Art fist class honours
Diploma of Art Alexander Mackie School of Arts and National Arts School
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
(Solo) “Dunya A journey through the fragile landscape” Islamic Museum of Australia Mel- bourne 2023/24 (group) Works on Paper Hazelhurst Gallery Sydney 2023 (group “Destiny Disrupted” Griffith University Art Museum Brisbane 2023 (group) “Ghost of Nothing - Sound of Unridden Waves” Bondi Pavilion 2023 (group “Destiny Disrupted” Granville Centre Art Gallery, Sydney 2022 (group) “Ghost of Nothing - Sound of Unridden Waves” - Project 8 Gallery Melbourne 2022 (group) Blake Prize Casula Powerhouse, Sydney 2022 (Solo) “The Apotheosis” Parliament House Sydney 2021 (group) Blake Prize Casula Powerhouse, Sydney 2021 (Solo), Drawing in Water & Gallery Sorrento 2021 (group), Plant & Human – The Australian Center for Photography Sydney 2019 (group), co- curator Enough Khalas Phillip George and Nur Shkembi UNSW Galleries Syd- ney (Solo2018 & Group) Biennale of Australian Art- Ballarat Victoria -September 2018 (group), Mt Rokko International Photo Festival Kobe Mirage Gallery Kiito Hall Gallery Kobe Japan (group),2017Soncino Biennale, Soncino Italy 2017 (group), Art box Project 1.0 Basel Switzerland 2017 (group), MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize – Murray Museum of Art Albury 2016 (group), Open Field Peacock Gallery & Auburn Botanic Gardens 2016 (group), Home Font, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney 2016 (Solo), Border-works Peacock Gallery & Auburn 2015 (Solo), Writing Landscape, Australian Centre for Photography Sydney, 2015 (Solo), Borderlands, Islamic Museum of Australia Melbourne, 2014 (group), Lumen Prize Exhibitions, the Triangle Space, Chelsea College of the Arts London & Space Gallery, Hong Kong 2014 (group), Lumen Prize Exhibitions, Gallery 61 New York Institute of Technology, New York 2013 (Solo), “Fog Garden” - Breenspace Sydney 2012 (group), CONNECTIONS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2012. (Solo), “From the Edge of Empire”, Breenspace Sydney 2010 (group), The Basil Sellers Art Prize, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne 2010 (group), Blake Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney 2010
(group), Through the Roadblocks, Cyprus, 2010. (Solo), Borderlands, Casula Powerhouse in Sydney, 2008. (group), ART ZONE Gallery ‘Insatiable Streams’, Beijing OLYMPIC Exhibition, Beijing, China. BS1 Contemporary Art Center 2008 (group), The Resilient Landscape, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 2007. (group), The Institute for Electronic Arts 10-Year Survey Show, (Solo & Group) BS1 Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2007. (group), Un Australian, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2006. (Solo) , Lost - Stories, Sydney: GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, Sydney, 2005 (group), NIGHT VISION, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2004 (group), Photographica Australis, international touring exhibition: Bangladesh 2004 (group), Biennale, Dhaka & Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, 2004. (Solo & Group) Photosynkyria, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece,2001 (group), Mnemonic Notations, CUBE 37 Multi Media Arts Centre, Melbourne, 2001 (group), Seeing through Landscape, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2001 (Solo), Tranzluztion”, Stills Gallery, Sydney 2000 (Solo), “Tranzluztion” Mnemonicon, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, 2000 (group), 2000 Olympic Festival, Athens, Greece, 2000 (group), Sydney GAMUT, Colville Place Gallery, London, 2000 (group), 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 2000 (group), Sydney Canberra Multicultural Arts Festival, Spiral Arm Gallery 2000 (group), The Arts Institute of Houston, Texas, 2000 (group), Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, WA, 2000 (group), Touchware, SIGGRAPH 98, Florida, USA, 2000 (group), The Living Arts Centre, Living Arts Mississauga, Ontario, Canada 2000 (group), 5th Biennale of Graphics, Kalingra, Kengsberg Cade II, 2000 (group), The Picture Gallery, Siberia Associaeione Achitetti Artisti, Venice, Italy, 2000 (group), 8th International Biennial Print & Drawing Exhibit, 1997 (group), Taipei Fine Arts Museum Ongoings, retrospective SIGGRAPH Los Angeles Conven- tion 1997 (group), Centre, Los Angeles, USA & Medien-Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics 1997 (Solo) “Memosinon” Greek Festival of Sydney Dank Street (Solo), “Tangent @23”, Michael Wardell Gallery, Melbourne, 1997 (group), Thessaloniki Particles, Artspace, Sydney, 1997. (group), Burning the Interface, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, installation 1996 (group), ISEA, Montreal, Canada, 1995 (group), The Digitalists, MMC Gallery, New York, USA Art Show, 1995 (group), SIGGRAPH 95 Los Angeles, USA Digit One Gallery, Sydney, 1995 (group), Topos, Artspace, Sydney,1995 (Solo), il Mondo Mongrel Mnemosinon Mantra, Artspace, Auckland 1995. (group)Frank Bustamante Gallery, New York, 1992 (group)USA International Painting Interactive, Chicago, 1992 (group)USA SIGGRAPH, McCormick Place, Chicago, USA, 1992 (Solo), “New Works “Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney 1986 (Solo), Solander Gallery, Canberra, 1981 (Solo), Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, 1981 (Solo), Michael Milburne, Gallery, Brisbane 1981 (group), Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1978
SELECTED BROADCAST MEDIA
2017 ABC Radio National – “Shooting the Past Friday 20 October 1.30p.m
2008 ABC “Drive Time” artist interview Canberra 11 December
2008 June 1, ABC TV Compass “The Blake Prize” Artist profile
1996 The Today show profile, Tony Brancoty Channel 9 TV 25 March
1996 Review, ABC, TV burning the interface, April 1
1995 The Future of Art – Profile -Beyond 2000 interview by Anthony Griffith Channel 10
SELECTED GRANTS
2019 ACMI VR prep-production grant
2013 New Work Grant Australia Council
2011 New Work Grant Australia Council
2010 New Work Grant Australia Council
2002 New Work Development Grant, Australia Council
2001 Rockerfeller Artist Residency, Alfred, New York, USA
1997 New Media Development Grant, Australia Council
1995 Production Grant, Australian Film Commission
1995 Travel Grant, Australian Film Commission
SELECTED PUBLIC ARTS TALKS
2018 3 May “Enough” Exhibition, Curators talk UNSW Galleries Paddington Sydney.
2016 Borderlands Peacock Gallery & Auburn Botanic Gardens
2015 13 April Writing Landscape, Australian Centre for Photography Sydney.
2014 Borderlands, Islamic Museum of Australia Melbourne.
2012 CONNECTIONS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2011 Key Note Speaker for EDI Festival - Water View Homebush Hosted by Australian Fed- eral Police
& The Counter Terrorism Team, 200 Islamic Religious leaders & cultural workers
2010 Through the Roadblocks, Cyprus.
2007 The Institute for Electronic Arts 10-Year Survey Show, BS1 Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing.
2004 Biennale, Dhaka & Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.
2001 Seeing through Landscape, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
2001 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece,
2000 Tranzluztion” Mnemonicon, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth.
1996 Burning the Interface, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney.
1995 il Mondo Mongrel Mnemosinon Mantra, Artspace, Auckland.
1995 SIGGRAPH 95 Los Angeles, USA Digit One Gallery, Los Angeles.
1992 Frank Bustamante Gallery, New York,
1992 USA International Painting Interactive, Chicago
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery Australia
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne
Australian National Maritime Museum , Sydney
University of Ghent Collection, Belgium
Tamworth City Library
Australian National Library
Art Bank Commonwealth Collection
National Art School, Canberra
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Citri Melbourne
RMIT University, Melbourne
University of Technology, Sydney
Private Collections - Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Darwin, Paris, Montpellier, Los Angeles, New York, Bolder Colorado, Thessaloniki, Athens, Hawaii