C.V
Foundation Press
(Adam Phillips & Deborah Bower)
Selected Exhibitions & Recent Public Projects
Unequivocally Different (with Celebrate Different Collective), Sunderland Museums & Winter Gardens, 2021
MIMAZINA, Collaborative publishing project, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, 2020-22
Black Path Press, Solo exhibition, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, 2020
The Everyday Political, Group Exhibition, Southwark Park Galleries / CGP London, London, 2018
Ideal Science, Group Exhibition, Newlyn Art Gallery & Exchange, Penzance, 2017
Precious Stone (collaboration with National Saturday Club), Solo exhibition, NGC, Sunderland, 2017
Found Objects (with Ruth Ewan, Thomas Whittle, Yelena Popova, Sam Watson, Holmeside Writers),
Collaborative publishing project, NGCA, Sunderland
These Rotten Words, Group exhibition, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 2017
Print In Practice, Solo exhibition and curated reading room, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle 2015
Workshops, Performances & Events
The Quick Fox & The Lazy Dog, BALTIC, Gateshead, 2022
Things To Do Online Workshop series (with Ciara Phillips, Katie Schwab, Kate Owens, Temporary Services, The Big Family Press), MIMA, Middlesbrough, 2022
Foundation Press + The Comfrey Project, BALTIC, Gateshead, 2020
Wallpaper Weekender, Arthouses, Whitley Bay, 2019
Unbound #5 (with Giles Bailey), Performance, BALTIC, Gateshead, 2018
World is Sudden: Summer Lab (workshop in collaboration with Anne-James Chaton), CIRCA Projects, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017
Unbound #4, Performance with Rachel Ags, BALTIC, Gateshead, 2017
Unbound #3, Performance with Chooc Ly Tan, BALTIC, Gateshead, 2017
Colour Experiment, Performance, as part of Experimentica Festival, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 2017
Unbound #2, Performance with Ant Macari, BALTIC, Gateshead, 2016
Unbound #1, Performance with Nicola Singh, BALTIC, Gateshead, 2016
Recent Publications
It’s all about dis•course,
edited by Charli Payne/Roberto de Abreu Preciosa/Wesley Bray, 2020 (Publisher/Designer/Mentor)
Black Path Press,
36 publications made with people in South Bank, Middlesbrough, 2020 (Publisher/Editor/Designer)
Talk Over Print: Conversations with Self-Publishers, 2019 (Publisher/Editor/Designer)
Anna Barham: Poisonous Oysters, 2019 (Designer)
Eros in Blue,
edited by Katy Bentham & Sophie Soobramanien, 2018 (Publisher/Designer/Mentor)
Awards, Funding Support & Links
BALTIC Northeast Artist Bursaries, 2021
Arts Foundation Visual Arts Fellow, nominated artist, 2020
Arts Council England, National Lottery Projects funding 2017, 2019, 2021
Great Place Tees Valley, Heritage Lottery funding 2019
Advanced HE, Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence, 2018
Education
Adam Phillips (Cambridge, 1984)
MA, University of Sunderland, Fine Art, 2007-2008
BA Hons, University of Leeds, Fine Art, 2003-2007
Foundation Art & Design, Stamford College, 2002
Deborah Bower (Birkenhead, 1982)
BA Hons, Northumbria University, 2002-2004
Foundation Art & Design, West Cheshire College, 2001
Other Related Projects/Practice
Adam Phillips
CIRCA Projects (Co-Founder/Curator/Director)
The Northern Charter (Founder member/Treasurer)
The Hepworth Wakefield (Adult Education Programmer)
Deborah Bower
Film Bee (Founder/Member)
Star & Shadow Cinema (Founder member/volunteer).