About Ben Poole - Phillips
Bio & Thoughts
Ben Poole- Phillips is an amateur ornithologist, bean lover, and sculptor. His work lies between the monumental and the ornamental and comprises icons of affection. Calling to a certain ambiguity and reliant on the imagination of its viewer, his work aims to elicit a playful interpretation and avoid a prescriptive response.
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Newcastle University Degree Show
2022
Allenheads Contemporary Arts Centre Newcastle University Interim Exhibition
2022
The Shieldfield Centre, Newcastle
Group Show Live performance sculpture Newbridge Project
2022
Hatton Gallery Clarence St, Newcastle
Found sculpture LWA (Life Work Art) – Students show
AWARDS
2018
Royal Birmingham Society of Arts Summer Exhibition
RBSA - Brook St, Birmingham
‘Ca-va – Je suis libre’
* *Awarded RBSA Exhibition Prize
EXPERIENCES
2023
Hexham Studio Castings LLP
Sir Antony Gormley
Finishing Assistant
2022
The Basin, Coventry
‘Hand, Earth, Gesture, Return’, Coventry City of Culture Award
Assistant to Lucy Tomlins
2022
Arch Bronze Foundry, Putney, London
Assistant Mould Maker
2021
'Isla'
Independent film, Perthsire , Scotland
Art Director