Phil Sayers

CURRENT PROJECTS

Phil Sayers is currently developing new work about the history of women’s football, the suffragettes, and the women who built and flew Spitfires in WW2.

RECENT PROJECTS

2010

• 10 works were exhibited in 0 & 1: Cyberspace and the Myth of Gender
  at Himalaya Gallery, 501 Contemporary Art Space, Chongqing, China, featuring artists from UK, Norway, China & Taiwan.
  

2009

• 7 works were exhibited in Myth & History, curated by Dorothy Rowe at The Bristol Gallery.
  
  
• Old Masters – Different Heroines, solo exhibition at Brand Contemporary Art, Groningen, Netherlands, featured 11 works of which 4 were based on paintings by J.W.Waterhouse.The exhibition ran alongside the major retrospective J.W.Waterhouse (1849-1917) The Modern Pre-Raphaelite at Groninger Museum. Phil Sayers was featured in the documentary film about Waterhouse which accompanied that exhibition and was also broadcast on Dutch TV.

The Waterhouse exhibition then toured to the Royal Academy of Arts, London & Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

2007-8

• Changing Places, a sequence of separate exhibitions in collaboration with Rikke Lundgreen:
  
  Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool & Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight (Oct 2007 - April 2008)
  Bury Art Gallery, Museum + Archives (Nov 2007 - Feb 2008)
  The Collection & Tennyson Research Centre, Lincoln (Feb - April 2008)
  Leeds Art Gallery, June – November 2008

At each venue there were photographic , video and object-based interventions embedded in the collections and made in response to specific works there. The project was substantially funded by Arts Council England with additional financial support from the galleries.

There are two 72-page illustrated catalogues available by contacting Phil Sayers.

	Changing Places 2007 With textual contributions from: Richard Burns, Curator, Bury Art Gallery, Museum + Archives Sheila McGregor, Former Curator, New Art Gallery Walsall Dorothy Rowe, Art Historian, University of Bristol Lindsay Smith, Professor of English, University of Sussex ISBN 0-9538915-7-7
	Changing Places with Leeds 2008 With textual contributions from: Nigel Walsh, Curator of Contemporary Art, Leeds Art Gallery Dorothy Rowe, Art Historian, University of Bristol ISBN 978-0-9547300-7-9