Emma Phillips is a London based artist from Stevenage, with a BA in Painting from UAL Wimbledon College of Arts (2021). Through painting, drawing and printmaking, her work explores the landscape as narrative, referencing folklore, local legends and ancient mythologies, examining the role of storytelling and mythmaking in shaping our relationships to cultural identity and environment.
Contact: emmaphillips.studio@gmail.com
EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
What Artists Like #9 - Interview with New Blood Art, December 2025
Despite Part II (Despite Collective), Ethereal Maison Gallery, July, 2025
Yes Art Fair, Artillery Arts, Walthamstow, June 2025
Summer Exhibition, Three Rooms Gallery, Walthamstow, May 2025
Papercuts, Aberystwyth School of Art, Aberystwyth, November 2024
This is Eathly Stuff, AMP Gallery, Peckham, London, April 2024
Good Grief ( Dan Levy x Netflix) - Artwork Feature, 2024
Solastalgia Magazine, Terrafurie, 2023
Lonely Stones Press, Issue 1, 2023
Down the Garden Path, Safehouse 1, Peckham London, July 2023
Shapes and Things, AMP Studios, Peckham, London, 2023
Gloaming (solo show), Broadway Studo & Gallery, Hertfordshire, Feb-Mar 2023
The Letchworth Open, Broadway Studio & Gallery, Hertfordshire, Sep-Oct 2022
Soft Earth, Espacio Gallery, London, May 2022
Late Britain Zine, January 2022
Body, BlocParty Magazine, October 2021
Memento Mori, Air Gallery Manchester, October 2021
Final Notice, Wimbledon College of Art, June 2021
Xhibit 2020 UAL (online) April 2021
Hertfordshire Stories Hertfordshire Libraries, Aug –December 2019
St Albans Cathedral, December 2018
The Royal Overseas League, January 2018
Mall Galleries, January 2018
EDUCATION
BA Fine Art: Painting (1st Class) - UAL Wimbledon College of Arts. 2018-2021
Foundation Diploma Art & Design - Oaklands College St Albans. 2017-2018
RESIDENCIES
Mawddach Residency, Wales, November 2024
AWARDS
Shirley Sherwood Young Botanical Artist Prize : Longlist 2023
Hertfordshire Libraries' Emerging Artist Commission, 2022
Broadway Studio & Gallery Bursary Prize, 2022
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize : Longlist 2022
WCA Prunella Clough Painting Prize, Jun 2020
Royal Society of British Artists Rising Stars, Jan 2018
Best in Show: Oaklands Collage Art & Design Showcase, Jun 2018
Hertfordshire Art Guild Award June 2017
Funded by Arts Council England
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My Story / Herts Memories, 2019- 2021Funded by Arts Council England and presented by Hertfordshire Library Service, in partnership with Nysa Projects, Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS), YC Hertfordshire, and Hertfordshire based artists.
