Tom Phillips - ACE063.6

In the studio. Drawings and other items on the walls. With printers doing layout and painting for screen print of 64 Stopcock Box Lids. Piece of decorative lino which Phillips likens to a Russian Constructivist painting. The print of Linoleum (1976-1977) with Phillips’s almost invisible accompanying text. Discussing colours of match box papers in Matching Colours Struck by Heatwave (1976-1977). Eleven Emblems of Violence (1976-1977). Phillips talking about his collection of African masks and sculptures. A painting of one of these. Prints of designs based on African source materials. Phillips with postcards. Prints based on details from these. Phillips begins a large-scale work. Series of photographs, taken by David Rowan, showing the progress of this work over three months; from the middle stage, the changes are made by rubbing out. Projecting the story of the picture onto the now blank canvas. Credits.