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Proposal to write an artist statement.
Proposal to make site responsive work to highlight and frustrate the infrastructures and systems which govern social movement.
Proposal to tease poetry from the mundane in the built environment.
Proposal to invite participants into engaging with soft disruptions.
Proposal to iterate proposals over time and let time do its work.
Proposal to embrace the unpredictability of liveness.
Proposal to set up conditions for unexpected connections and interesting failures.
Proposal to not quite fulfil any of these proposals but fulfil something in between and around the proposals instead.
Proposal to give yourself the permission you need.
Proposal to look around you and see where you are.
Proposal to write an artist statement.
Proposal to make site responsive work to highlight and frustrate the infrastructures and systems which govern social movement.
Proposal to tease poetry from the mundane in the built environment.
Proposal to invite participants into engaging with soft disruptions.
Proposal to iterate proposals over time and let time do its work.
Proposal to embrace the unpredictability of liveness.
Proposal to set up conditions for unexpected connections and interesting failures.
Proposal to not quite fulfil any of these proposals but fulfil something in between and around the proposals instead.
Proposal to give yourself the permission you need.
Proposal to look around you and see where you are.
Education:
Conditions Studio Programme, Croydon, 2019-2025
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
Solo exhibitions
Site of Ghosts (Fka "Proposal for an opening, proposal for an afterimage", fka "You Are Here"), Project Space at Turf Projects, Croydon, 2024
The Sigil Is Subsumed by the City, Special Dispensations, Norwich, 2021-22
Group exhibitions:
DUMP Doom Simulator (within The Archive of Forgotten Forms), Seager Gallery, London, 2025
Growing Season: Part 2, Lewisham Arthouse, London, 2025
Conditions Exhibition 2023-24, Conditions, Croydon, 2024
Growing Season: Part 1, Coven Collective, London, 2024
Annual Open Exhibition 2023, Southwark Park Galleries, London, 2023
DUMP 01, Greatorex Street, London, 2023
Conditions Exhibition 2022-23, Conditions, 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
Curated exhibitions:
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)
Live performances:
Gathering Spell, spell casting at Growing Season: Part 2 opening party, Lewisham Arthouse, London, 2025
Proposal to read unrealised proposals at NOSE BLIND AND HUMMING, San Mei Gallery, London, 2024
Proposal to read unrealised proposals at Site of Ghosts (Fka “Proposal for an opening, proposal for an afterimage”, fka “You Are Here”), the Project Space at Turf Projects, Croydon, 2024
Proposal to read unrealised proposals at Conditions Exhibition 2023-24, Conditions, 2024
You Are Here (Demo) (as Song of Ungrounding) at the ICA, London, 2024
You Are Here (Demo) (as Song of Ungrounding) at Ambitions Graveyard, Norwich, 2024
Proposal to read unrealised proposals at Kabinett Jam, Camberwell Kabinett, London, 2024
Proposal to read unrealised proposals at Growing Season: Part 1 by Coven Collective, London, 2024
Bibliography:
Tom Glover, “Proposal for An Interview with Josh Philpott”, Article #25 – Café Interviews, interview, The Glover Compartment, 2024
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:
"Drawing Connections: Four works from 30works30days by an artist with chronic illness”, article, Art Worlds, Artquest, 2024
“Drawing Through Stone (Excerpt from my artist statement, 08/11/21)”, prose, The Covid Logs, 2024
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:
Esoteritech, Mark Leckey x Conditions, NTS 2, 2024
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:
Light Beams Under A Bridge: Volume 12, screening under a railway bridge, London, 2024
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 2024 by Artquest, online at Artquest Exchange, April 1st – 30th 2024
30/30 2023, online at thirty.works/artist/0819, April 1st – 30th 2023
Special Dispensations, vending machine at Norwich Theatre Playhouse, December 2021 - January 2022
30/30 2021, online at 12ocollective.com, April 1st – 30th 2021
Projects:
Song of Ungrounding, 2021-
Poetry in Situ, 2016-2018
Exhibit, 2012-2016