Tom Phillips

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Heart of Darkness is nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts Award. Something to (Melvyn) Bragg about. In the opera category we are bitterly pi...

Seventy fifth birthday looming up and a small self fest to celebrate.  The new and updated 5th edition  of A Humument will be...

We can't absolutely guarantee to get it to you before Christmas but, here's a special offer valid until the end of the year. Choose...

Photograph Catherine Ashmore   Heart of Darkness was premiered with some success at Covent Garden’s Linbury Theatre. Reviews were ge...

Design for 2012 Olympics Silver kilo coin, 2011, watercolour. Gutted by yet again being passed over for a place in our Olympics table tenni...

  When you meet someone you haven't encountered for sixty years you shouldn't be surprised to find them changed utterly. So it is i...

Ornament , pencil 2011, 30cm diameter Long ago I teamed myself up with Jessica Rawson to prepare an exhibition at the Royal Academy that wo...

The transfer of my archive to the Bodleian Library might have felt like parcelling up one foot and posting it direct to the gra...

Word Cross , wire 1997 One of the strange aspects of an artist’s job is that most of the time you are doing something no one has a...

Rima's Song , comic book collage, 2005 Fifty years ago I sold (for £12) my first picture to a proper collection, that of the JCR of Pem...

To celebrate the appearance of A Humument App on iPhone I shall shortly add a dozen or so newly revised pages. The first to change will be...

The Remains of the Day , 2011, recycled acrylic palettes on board, h41 x w76.5cm It's all Daphne's fault. Meeting my friend the a...

Having downloaded the Brushes app on my iPad I was keen to try it out. An evening at the venerable London Sketch Club armed with no other d...

  See what you get if you practise , as Liberace used to say, pausing at the keyboard to flash his huge diamond ring at children gathered r...

On returning from Princeton the big excitement at Peckham HQ is presiding over the final birth throes of my Humument app for iPad which i...

Wittgenstein's Dilemma , 1999, silkscreen on acrylic cube. Photo Ben Drury. Back once again on Einstein Drive after an enjoyable opening...

My railings have just been officially unveiled at no1 Grafton Street... nice for a veteran Monopoly player to have at last a stake in Mayfai...

The Seven Ages of Man , 2010, artist's hair on tennis balls. At last after a few years of squint and tweezers I have assembled, like the...

Quantum Poetics, July 2010, Oil on panel. Like those stages of the World Cup in which England feebly participated my painting Quantum Poetic...