Eleanor Phillips
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Eleanor Phillips is a multi-disciplinary artist whose speciality is working collaboratively within community contexts. She has a BA in Fine Art Sculpture, H.Dip in Community Arts Education and an MA in Public Art. To each project she takes her belief in the democratising process of collaborative art, her skills as a facilitator and her love of using readily accessible materials and renewable resources to co-create new ways of looking at the world.
Exhibitions
2017   T'Art Sweet 'Art, Bones & Pearls Studios, London, UK
2017   Attitude Precedes Form, The Library Project, Blackchurch Print Studios, Dublin
2016   Outpost, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow
2014   Eleven, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Florida, USA
2014   Glue, Hardman Hall Gallery, Mercer University, Georgia, USA
2013   WWAR, 24hr Performance, Vacant Building, Bray, Co. Wicklow
2010   Museum All-Over, John Erickson Museum of Art: Next Chapter
           Frugone (Museum),Genoa, Italy
2010   Little Wonder, Co-Curator with JEMA & Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2010   Collection, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown
2009   Straying Closer to the Truth, Multifarnham Abbey, Co. Westmeath
2009   Forbidden Death, Likovni Salon, Celje, Slovenia
2006  Island?, Solo Show, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow
2004   Art Protests, Ballyfermot Civic Centre, Dublin.
2002   Crawford Open, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork
2001   U-Man-Zoo, Project Art Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin

Awards

2016       Participatory Arts Bursary, Arts Council Ireland
2013       New Artists Bursary Award, Wicklow County Council (for RAFT)
2013       Research, Artist in the Community - CREATE
2013       Travel & Training Award – Arts Council Ireland
2011       Research Residency, St. Louis, USA - RAC, St. Louis, Missouri
2011       Travel & Training Award - Arts Council Ireland
2010       Peace III - Arts & Cultural Diversity Fund, Northern Ireland
2009       Institute Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia – Artist Residency
2009       Arts Council Ireland – Travel Bursary Award
2009       Re-Imaging Award, Craigavon Council, Northern Ireland
2008       Multifarnham Friary, Co. Westmeath – Artist in Residence
2006       Wicklow County Council – Visual Artist in Residence
2005       CREATE – Artist in the Community, Strand C
2002       Bray Urban District Council, Arts Act Grant – Materials Award.
2000    Bray Urban District Council, Arts Act Grant – Materials Award

Projects & Residencies

2017 Withholding Blood Residency, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow
2014-to date    Outpost Studios – set-up studio collective with seven other artists. Initiated “Winter Series” talks which were open to the public and invited diverse audiences including community workers, business people, and artists. In response to this series I facilitated Self-Assemble: Creating Our Own Prospects, re-calling all those who had attended the Winter Series. The event instigated a monthly salon; a film-club and a reading group. It also prompted us to set-up an artist residency programme to be launched in 2019.
2014-2015       Ballyboden Womens Group Residency exploring women’s roles in community
2013                Dish Screening & Public Talk with Catering Workers of Killarney, Co. Kerry in Collaboration with SIPTU
2012/2013       WWAR - Wicklow Artists Research residency with curators Elish Lavelle and Cliodhna Shaffery initiated by Wicklow Arts Office
2011- 2013 The Northsiders Museum, Northside Shopping Centre, Coolock, Dublin, Residency
2011                Bureau of Enquiry A Residency with clients and workers of Peter & Paul Homeless services and the Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, USA
2009 - 2011  Minceire, Our People  Craigavon County Council, Craigavon Traveller Community, Northern Ireland
2007- 2009      Widows Conversation I-III, Belfast, Northern Ireland

2009                Ignorant Outsiders Tour A residency with Celje Arts Office, Slovenia
2008                Walking Art   Art, Media & Contested Space Tour, Belfast
2008                Walking Place Walking Urban Philosophical Tour, Belfast
2006                Artist in Residence    Wicklow County Council
2005/06           Artist in the Community Mounttown Youth Project, Dun Laoghaire                     
2004-2006       Bury My Heart Community Residency with Fatima Groups United, Dublin

2017                Wicklow Film Festival Curated in collaboration with Raine Hozier and Mermaid Arts Centre on the theme of Social Justice
 
2012-17           Culture Night Bray Curating & Collaborating on Site Specific Work with various groups such as Outpost Studios; RAFT; Signal Arts Centre
Education
2009    MA Art in Public, Ulster University, Belfast
2005    H.Dip. Community Arts Education, NCAD, Dublin.
2002    BA Fine Art Sculpture, NCAD, Dublin.
Other
Founding Member, Outpost Studios, Bray, Co. Wicklow
2014 to date
Together with seven artists founded the Outpost Studios
https://outpoststudios.weebly.com/
 
Founding Co. Member, Board of Directors, Signal Arts Centre Ltd, Bray, Co. Wicklow, 1998 – to date
Signal Arts Centre is an independent arts centre with a strong community ethic. It operates a gallery with 25 exhibitions per year, ceramics, dark room, multi-media and general workshop studios. It runs an employment scheme for 15 artists through the Department of Social Protection’s community employment programme and engages in numerous community projects with local schools and organisations.
http://www.signalartscentre.ie/

Bread & Butter
Sept. 2015 to date: Arts Tutor, KWETB
2010-15 Project Leader & Administrator, Blue Drum Specialist Arts Support Agency for Family Resource Centers, Dublin
2009-11 Tutor, Southern Regional College, Northern Ireland
2008-09 Arts Administrator, Flax Art Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland 
2007 Assistant Lecturer, Community Arts Module, Dundalk IT
2007 Commissioned Artist/Lecturer, CityArts, Dundalk IT & CDYSB   
2006 Co-ordinator & Tutor, Community Arts Practice, Signal Arts Centre in association with Wicklow VEC and Wicklow Arts Office
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