Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Phillip George
Phillip George is a Sydney based artist who trained at the National Art School Sydney receiving a Diploma in Art and a Masters Degree with First Class Honours from the University of New South Wales in 1996, he exhibits nationally and internationally, his work has been profiled in, Beijing, New York, Athens, Crete, Thesaloniki, New Orleans, Los Angles, Kyoto, Auckland, Florida, Kengsberg, Siberia, Venice, Paris, London and Frankfurt.
He has represented Australia at the 2004, 2001, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 and 1993 SIGGRAPH Art shows, the largest and most important computer graphics conference and exhibition in the world.
His work ranges from painting and printmaking to interactive installation, new media and the post photographic. Phillip has held 20 solo exhibitions dating from 1981 to present and countless group and collaborative exhibitions. He is now collaboratively involved will the Spiral Sound Company in live interactive performances.
Current practices interest focuses on the photographic and post-photographic, truth as evidence and to challenge our notions of vision.
This research includes cognition in relation to vision, vision in relation to interpretation, story telling as it informs history, history as fiction and fiction in relation to cognition. Thus it completes a circle of relations linking visual information with fiction.