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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 |
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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 |
