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Website: http://www.philillingworth.com

College / University: Portsmouth College of Art

Member type: Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Digital, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture

About my artwork: I am questioning our attitude to our world through how it is presented to us. I am exploring how mainstream society and sub-cultures coincide and clash, by overlaying the familiar visual phrasing and vocabulary of high art with the graphic shorthand of trash culture.

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One idea of hell

I Know You (you fecker)

At a wedding reception a long time ago, it suddenly struck me that one idea of hell is to be trapped in a room with a drunk, abusive Goofy (yes, Mickey's mate). It would be the seven-foot-tall one generally found strolling round a certain themed amusement park. Strolling around terrifying small children and, well, me.

'I Know You' above, illustrates another. Most of us…

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Posted on 11th April 2008 at 11:00am â€”

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At 4:30pm on 1st December 2008, kate buckley said…: pleasure!
I heard this and I thought of you.....
what's the difference between erotic and kinky?
erotic is when you tickle your lover with a feather..
kinky is when you do it with the whole chicken.

At 11:43pm on 16th November 2008, kate buckley said…: I'm a dab hand with a hammer. Quote away dear fellow, they're all yours!

At 4:57pm on 14th November 2008, Tatjana de Luxe said…: hi, i like your work.
warm regards

At 2:38pm on 13th November 2008, kate buckley said…: Yo! Too kind..that image has well and truly stuck in my head for the last couple of hours actually, and paradoxically, despite my latest ponderings on my profile, I envy the ability of artists like yourself to deliver direct, inspired responses to the world. Yours strike me as having something 'other', an elusive quality, something to do with lightness of touch. Your chicken is fucking great and I wish I'd thought of it.

At 12:15pm on 13th November 2008, Knifesmith Gallery said…: Cheers Phil, pay us a visit if you're ever down Bristol way.

Jamie

At 10:54pm on 16th September 2008, tony south said…: Alright , thanks Phil..got a solo show at RHG next summer, Trying to get enough work done for that...Yourself? you been exhibiting abroad, cant remember seeing you on this site for ages...any new work to see? As for chav kids, i went to enrol my daughter at nursery last month and the three year old girl stood in front of me had a t-shirt with "so-sexy" emblazened on the front,i could have slapped the mother there and then, but she was bigger than me and sported a few homemade tattoos, so i kept shtum....
best
Tony

At 7:31pm on 5th September 2008, m o m e n t e said…: Hi Phil,
Thanks for your comments.
Alicia
http://www.momentemagazine.com

At 10:50pm on 4th September 2008, jose mertz said…: great prints.

At 5:58pm on 2nd September 2008, Catherine Weaver said…: Just read Pablo Helguera's Manual of Contemporary Art Style and I think you'd get a bang out of it. I know I did. Not so much about art speak so much as art strategy!