Ciara Phillips

Ciara Phillips is a Canadian/Irish artist based in Bergen, Norway, since 2022. She studied Fine Art at Queen’s University (BFA, Hons.) in Kingston, Canada, and at Glasgow School of Art (MFA) before establishing her studio in Glasgow in 2004.

Phillips’ process-lead approach to working with print, has gained her international recognition for both her individual and collaborative work in the field of contemporary art. She has worked as an educator and as an artist in community contexts since the late 1990s, and her long-term artwork, Workshop (2010 – ) – which engages people of all ages and backgrounds in thinking-through-making with her – has been exhibited widely in public institutions. Phillips is the initiator of several collaborative projects including: Poster Club (with Anne-Marie Copestake, Charlie Hammond, Nicolas Party, Tom O’Sullivan and Michael Stumpf, 2010-17); Press Room (2019) and Åpent Trykkeri (2018 – 2019). Her work has been exhibited at: Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; TATE Britain, London; Benaki Museum, Athens; Kunsthall Stavanger and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as part of the Sydney Biennale. In 2014, Phillips was one of four nominees for the Turner Prize, the UK’s most publicised art award, and in 2020 she received the world’s leading award for graphic art, The Queen Sonja Print Award. For her work with Anne Crilly, Sara Greavu and Margo Harkin on Derry Film and Video Workshop, she was jointly awarded Irish Women of the Year: Arts & Design in 2024.

She is currently Professor in Fine Art at The Art Academy: Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Bergen.

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In 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic meant that much of the world had come to a standstill, artist Ciara Phillips was invited by the Canadian charitable organisation, Partners in Art, to create a series of five artworks that could be shared on-line over a period of a week. For each day she made a poster that could be printed at home. Each artwork posed a question: What futures do we really want? Can we learn to truly embrace complexity? How can we be more caring? Do we have to be so controlling? On the final day, she proposed to ‘Spill Out Your Love’.

Phillips describes it as a reminder to herself and others that to move forward in this world in a more caring way, we need to loosen our grip on love, to allow it to touch beyond that which we think effects us immediately. She often cites the Scottish poet, Tom Leonard, whose poem ‘Being a Human Being’ asks us, “[…] not to put friends and family before the rest of the world, not to say I am wrong when you know the government is wrong […]”.

What to do with your love? Spill it out.

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