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Phil Ashcroft, Hinkley B,
2008
acrylic
on canvas, 122 x 92cm
(photo:
© Anthony Lam)
Phil Ashcroft is a painter and graphic
artist based in London.
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derelict hospital, oil depots, nuclear power stations, the
abominable snowman; collectively these semi-surreal settings
and cartoon-like motifs appear as mysterious manifestations,
phenomena both real and imagined. Combining influences from
abstract expressionism, British landscape painting, Japanese
woodcuts, and graphic street art, Ashcroft integrates varied
visual styles to generate a crossover between space, object
and environment.
Recent exhibitions include No Soul for Sale,
Tate Modern (2010); a commissioned, site-specific billboard
for Deptford X, London (2009); Free Art Fair,
Barbican Gallery, London (2009); Heart of Glass,
Concrete and Glass, London (2008); Wonder Island,
Schwartz Gallery, London (2008); Out of the Box and in The
Garman Ryan Permanent Collection, New Art Gallery Walsall
(2007-08).
Ashcroft also exhibits as ‘PhlAsh’ collaborating on
live-painting projects in galleries and alternative spaces
from street locations to shops. These have included
Special Relationship, Scion Space, Los Angeles
(2008), Elephant Technique, Village Underground
(2006), All The People We Like Are Dead, London
(2004), and Graffiti Meets Windows 1, Hank-Yu
Department Store, Osaka (2002).
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