Josh Philpott
  • Josh Philpott
  • Work
    • Site of Ghosts (Fka "Proposal for an opening, proposal for an afterimage", fka "You Are Here")
    • Proposal for An Opening ii
    • A Bird Bath/Proposal for A Bird Bath
    • Proposal for Your Art Here
    • Music for Haunted Architecture
    • Poem In Blue
    • Poem for Unit 48
    • Talisman for Protection, To Be Full of Light
    • Model for Rosslyn Villas
    • Poems for A Gap In the Door
    • I'm not even supposed to be here
    • The Sigil is Subsumed by the City
    • Proposals
    • Selhurst Railway Station, Platform 2
    • Song of Ungrounding
    • 30/30 2021
    • Real Drawings
    • Nomadic Gardens Winter Festival
    • Parking Kerbs
    • Pig's Ears
    • Duckface
  • About
  • Josh Philpott
  • Work
    • Site of Ghosts (Fka "Proposal for an opening, proposal for an afterimage", fka "You Are Here")
    • Proposal for An Opening ii
    • A Bird Bath/Proposal for A Bird Bath
    • Proposal for Your Art Here
    • Music for Haunted Architecture
    • Poem In Blue
    • Poem for Unit 48
    • Talisman for Protection, To Be Full of Light
    • Model for Rosslyn Villas
    • Poems for A Gap In the Door
    • I'm not even supposed to be here
    • The Sigil is Subsumed by the City
    • Proposals
    • Selhurst Railway Station, Platform 2
    • Song of Ungrounding
    • 30/30 2021
    • Real Drawings
    • Nomadic Gardens Winter Festival
    • Parking Kerbs
    • Pig's Ears
    • Duckface
  • About
  Josh Philpott
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A Bird Bath
Terracotta ceramic

Score: Write proposal for a bird bath. Display proposal in Growing Season: Part 1. Build a bird bath. Exhibit bird bath in Growing Season: Part 2. Donate bird bath to Coven garden.

2025

Exhibited in Growing Season: Part 2 at Lewisham Arthouse, London, curated by Coven Collective

​Photo by Vanessa Walters
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Proposal for A Bird Bath (26/06/2024 - 21/02/2025)
Ink on paper left outdoors for 8 months

Score: Install "Proposal for A Bird Bath" on Coven garden fence for Growing Season: Part 1. Leave unprotected to be altered by weather for 8 months. Retrieve and install in Growing Season: Part 2.

2024-25


Exhibited in Growing Season: Part 2 at Lewisham Arthouse, London, curated by Coven Collective

​Photo by Vanessa Walters
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Proposal for A Bird Bath
​Inkjet print on heavy weight smooth matte A3 paper

Edition of 10, signed and numbered on reverse

2025

Available from Coven Collective

Previously sold at Growing Season: Part 2 at Lewisham Arthouse alongside prints by all 11 artists
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A Bird Feed (Gathering Spell)
Wheat, red dari, kibbled maize, white millet, cooked wheat flakes, cut wheat, black sunflower seeds, soya oil

Score: Pour bird feed in a spiral on the ground in and around gallery premises. Trace of performative intervention Gathering Spell initiated 21 February 2025, 7:30pm.

​2025


Poured on the gallery floor and at the entrance to Lewisham Arthouse; Luxmore Gardens; Borough of Deptford Memorial Gardens for Growing Season: Part 2

Picture
Proposal for A Bird Bath
Ink on paper

​Score*:

1. Install a bird bath.

2024

*To be carried out by Gowing Season: Part 2

Exhibited in Growing Season: Part One at Coven garden, London, curated by Coven Collective
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Proposal for Flowers In the Garden That Are Like A Great Dream
​Meadow Daisy seeds*

2024

*Sown in soil of plant pots in Coven Collective's garden, watered with tap water from curators' house, to be nurtured by the curators to grow into shoots by Growing Season: Part 2, to flower by Spring 2025

​In Growing Season: Part 1 curated by Coven Collective

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