Colour could be seen to drag out the truth of the matter on the surface - the truth of a body on its skin.
Lex Morgan Lancaster
Phillips’s ‘burning a candle at one end’ is a series of large scale, abstract paintings exploring the anxiety around representation and colour in painting, in particular, the anxiety around bodies and embodiment. Deploying colour’s capacity to produce waves of emotions that are both pleasurable and agitating, Phillips invites the viewer into a world that rejects the tendency to reduce abstract form to a bodily sign or symbol. The overall effect leaves lingering impressions on the retina even after we look away.













