Tom Phillips - ACE063.5

Phillips talking about his schooling and university life. Photographs from Oxford and from Camberwell School of Art. Mappin Art Gallery. Postcard of interior of the Gallery which provided source material for Phillips’s installation. Painting No.6. Phillips relates how he came across information on the originals of many of the paintings, including The Flag of Truce (1873) and The Sally (1870) by John Pettie. Comparison of photograph of Gallery interior with the postcard based on it. Phillips explains the process that led to his picture – Victorian paintings hung in the Gallery, the Gallery photographed in black and white, a postcard tinted in Germany made from the photograph, his paintings made from the postcard. Comparison of his paintings with the originals. Mappin Art Gallery Installation (1974). Art on the Road (1976-1977). Phillips on A Walk to the Studio. His VO talks about how he could "make the journey rich" for himself; things he sees and/or collects on the way. Stop-cock box lids which he has likened to skulls in Sixty-Four Stopcock Box Lids (1976-1977). Different alphabets.