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Josh Philpott stages interventions within various spaces in public and exhibition contexts by inserting disharmonious objects or recording environmental elements in liminal spaces, often encountered by the artist while walking or commuting during his day-to-day life. His practice commonly manifests as drawings, poetry […] and sound art among other things inserted into atypical situations to be encountered by viewers, mirroring the artist’s encounters with his source material. His interests include psychogeography, absurdism, dry humour, and midwestern-emo […] Recent interventions include: Bear Creek Gazette #9 (Ed. Stuart Buck, welcometobearcreek.com, 2022); Foldable Soundbath 26/03/2022 (Foldable Sounds Collective, Resonance Extra, 2022); The Sigil is Subsumed by the City, Special Dispensations (vending machine in Norwich, UK, 2022); Time Disaster (Conditions, NTS Radio, 2021); Conditions Show 2019-2021, Conditions (London, UK, 2021); Walk On By Window Exhibition (Josh’s mum’s cottage, Instagram @w.o.b.w.e); Winter Festival Exhibition, Queens Park Nomadic Gardens (co-curated, London, UK, 2017); Creekside Open 2017, A.P.T Gallery (London, UK, 2017); Art + Text, 44AD (Bath, UK, 2017); Open Plan, House of Vans London (London, UK, 2017); Homeward Bound, Safehouse 1 (London, UK, 2016); UNIT, Southwark Park Galleries (London, UK, 2015) […] He graduated with a BA (Hons) in Sculpture from Camberwell College of the Arts in 2016 and he has been a member of Conditions Studio Programme since 2019. He founded the band Song of Ungrounding who self-released their debut album in 2021 […]
Josh Philpott stages interventions within various spaces in public and exhibition contexts by inserting disharmonious objects or recording environmental elements in liminal spaces, often encountered by the artist while walking or commuting during his day-to-day life. His practice commonly manifests as drawings, poetry […] and sound art among other things inserted into atypical situations to be encountered by viewers, mirroring the artist’s encounters with his source material. His interests include psychogeography, absurdism, dry humour, and midwestern-emo […] Recent interventions include: Bear Creek Gazette #9 (Ed. Stuart Buck, welcometobearcreek.com, 2022); Foldable Soundbath 26/03/2022 (Foldable Sounds Collective, Resonance Extra, 2022); The Sigil is Subsumed by the City, Special Dispensations (vending machine in Norwich, UK, 2022); Time Disaster (Conditions, NTS Radio, 2021); Conditions Show 2019-2021, Conditions (London, UK, 2021); Walk On By Window Exhibition (Josh’s mum’s cottage, Instagram @w.o.b.w.e); Winter Festival Exhibition, Queens Park Nomadic Gardens (co-curated, London, UK, 2017); Creekside Open 2017, A.P.T Gallery (London, UK, 2017); Art + Text, 44AD (Bath, UK, 2017); Open Plan, House of Vans London (London, UK, 2017); Homeward Bound, Safehouse 1 (London, UK, 2016); UNIT, Southwark Park Galleries (London, UK, 2015) […] He graduated with a BA (Hons) in Sculpture from Camberwell College of the Arts in 2016 and he has been a member of Conditions Studio Programme since 2019. He founded the band Song of Ungrounding who self-released their debut album in 2021 […]
Education:
BA (Hons) Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, 2013-2016
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University, 2012-2013
Group shows:
Annual Open Exhibition 2023, Southwark Park Galleries, London, 2023
DUMP 01, Greatorex Street, London, 2023
Conditions Exhibition 2022-23, Conditions, Croydon, 2023
Information Rich Attention Poor (featured in solo exhibition by Campbell Mcconnell), Conditions Studios Project Space, Croydon, 2023
Model Village, Eastcheap Project Space, Letchworth, 2023
Poems for A Gap In the Door, Conditions Studios Project Space, Croydon, 2023
Sick Artists Club, online at thingsihavelearnedthehardway.com/sick-artists-club-artworks, 2023
Documents, Gallery Dodo, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, 2023
Conditions Exhibition 2021-22, Conditions Whitgift Centre, Croydon, 2022
Nowhere Sometime, Instagram @consciousisolation, 2021
Conditions Exhibition 2019-2021, Conditions Whitgift Centre, Croydon, 2021
Walk-On-By Window Exhibition, Instagram @w.o.b.w.e, 2020
Winter Festival Exhibition, Queen’s Park Nomadic Gardens, London, 2017-2018
Poster, Cello Factory, London, 2017
Hand Held View, Barnoon Workshop, Cornwall, 2017
Creekside Open 2017 Selected by Alison Wilding, A.P.T. Gallery, London, 2017
Everyday is A Day Too Long, Electric House, London, 2017
Art + Text, 44AD Gallery, Bath, 2017
Open Plan, House of Vans London, London, 2017
Art-Apart, Camberwell on the Green, London, 2016
Camberwell College of Arts Undergraduate Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London, 2016
The Camberwell Open, Fusion Lifestyle, London, 2016
Homeward Bound, Safehouse 1, London, 2016
Monochromia, RAUM Gallery, Camberwell College of Arts, London, 2016
#OPEN15, Peckham Platform, London, 2015
"we ought to make the pie higher", Hotel Elephant, London, 2015
Creative Debuts Showcase X, The Black and White Building, London, 2015
Blowout, Rye Wax, London, 2015
UNIT, Dilston Grove, London, 2015
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design Graduate Show, School of Art Bourneville, Birmingham, 2013
Curation:
Music for Haunted Architecture (within Conditions Exhibition 2022-23), Conditions, Croydon, 2023
Poems for A Gap In the Door, Conditions Studios Project Space, Croydon, 2023
Winter Festival Exhibition, Queen’s Park Nomadic Gardens, London, 2017-2018 (w/ Florence Goodhand-Tait, Daniel Rockman, and Rishil Parekh)
Bibliography:
The Elegists Collective, A Collective Enquiry into Social Evisceration or Sexy Thinky Thinky Time #2: Blue, feature, The Elegists Collective (self-published), 2023
Campbell Mcconnell, Navigating Attention (Featured in group conversation hosted and transcribed by Campbell Mcconnell), artist’s book, Campbell Mcconnell (self-published), 2023
Honor Ash, Review of Selhurst Railway Station, Platform 2 (Excerpts) album by Song of Ungrounding, Ninetales Collective, 2021
Joan Lee, Josh Philpott interview & feature, CLLR Magazine, 2017
Jane Cuppage, INSERT NAME: BA Sculpture student Josh Philpott, interview, Camberwell College of Arts Blog, 2016
Various, Fine Art - Camberwell College of Arts, catalogue, The Camberwell Press, 2016
Publications:
Poems for Catching A Glimpse of, pamphlet, self-published, 2023
Excerpts from My Artist Statement, prose, Bear Creek Gazette, 2022
Review of OUT/WITH zine by Honor Ash, review, Ninetales Collective, 2020
Duckface, artist's book, self-published, 2015
Radio:
Infinite Collision Hour, Mark Leckey x Conditions, NTS 2, 2023
Foldable Soundbath #7 - 26th March 2022, Resonance Extra, 2022
Time Disaster, Mark Leckey x Conditions, NTS 2, 2021
Screenings:
Video Edition Pavilion, II_Showcase: Silent Video Edition Embassy for Musicians, The Wrong Biennale no.6, 2023-2024
Conditions Exhibition 2022-23, Conditions, Croydon, 2023
FAIL Institute x Folkstone Fringe, Urban Room Folkstone, Folkstone, 2023
Documents opening screening, Gallery Dodo, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, 2023
Residencies:
30/30 2023, online at thirty.works/artist/0819, April 2023
Special Dispensations, vending machine at Norwich Theatre Playhouse, December 2021 - January 2022
30/30 2021, online at 12ocollective.com, April 2021
Affiliations:
Ambitions Graveyard, Norwich, member, 2023-
Conditions Studio Programme, Croydon, artist, 2019-
Projects:
Song of Ungrounding, 2021-
Poetry in Situ, 2016-2018
Exhibit, 2012-2016