Phil Sayers
Studied Fine Art at Manchester College of Art and Design with postgraduate study at Leeds College of Art and Leeds University. Currently teaches occasionally at Staffordshire University and is an External Examiner at the Universities of Leeds and Derby.
In 1983 founded and has subsequently acted as principal coordinator of Borderline Printmakers, a small federation of local, national and international artists with studio facilities for photography & printmaking and a reputation for educational outreach work.
In 2002 co-conducted an educational project for Whitechapel Gallery, London in conjunction with the Nan Goldin - Devil’s Playground show.
Has given artist talks at the Usher Gallery, Lincoln & Picture House Centre for Photography, Leicester in 2004, Wolverhampton University in 2006, and the Walker, Lady Lever and Bury Art Galleries in 2007.
Selection of exhibitions:
2009 |
Old Masters - Different Heroines |
Solo show, Brand Contemporary Art, Groningen, Netherlands |
2007/8 2006 |
Changing Places Visualizing TRANS |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Bury Art Gallery, Museum + Archives The Collection, Lincoln Leeds Art Gallery Kupfer Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
2005 |
Eight @ the warehouse |
Hereford Photography Festival Fringe |
2004 |
Britney’s Smears |
Catalyst Arts, Belfast |
2003 |
Fading Away The Classical Present |
Royal Pump Rooms Museum & Art Gallery, Leamington Spa Bury Art Gallery, Museum + Archives |
2002 |
Vogue Divine Lilla Europa 2002 Biennale Age and Gender |
Manchester Poetry Festival, collaboration with poet Philip Davenport Hallsberg & Örebro, Sweden Orleans House Gallery, London + touring, curated by Foundation for Women’s Art |
2001 |
Art in St Mary Magdalene Brighton Icons |
Munster Square, London NW1 St Bartholomew Church, Brighton |
2000 |
A Woman’s Realm Chronos - ein Tag |
Solo exhibition, Pleiades Gallery, Athens 24 artists from Europe & America curated by Arcus, Nürnberg |
1998 |
Dragged |
Real Gallery, W26thSt, New York with Sarah Pucill |
1997 |
Lost Lands |
Ogilvy & Estill, Conwy |
1996 |
Warming Up |
11 artists from England and Germany curated by Arcus, Nürnberg |
1995 |
A Question of Identity Inside-Outside Evolution Identities Foreign Bodies |
Keele University Konstforum, Norrköping, Sweden Shrewsbury Museum & residency at Old St Chads’ Church Manhattan Graphic Center, New York Shinjuku Cultural Centre, Tokyo |