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
Drawing of a handwritten note which reads
Proposal for Long Fold 1 (spare)
Pencil on paper
Installed in the stairwell at Conditions Exhibition 2021-22, Whitgift Center, Croydon
2022

​Drawn from a note written by Oona Wilkinson
Drawing of a handwritten note which reads "Long Fold 1 (spare)", the drawing is on notebook paper stuck to a wall
Drawing of a note which reads "Long Fold 1 (spare)", the drawing is stuck on a wall in a stairway
Proposal for Long Fold 1 (spare) (Installed in Conditions Whitgift Centre, Croydon, 2022)
Inkjet print on 135gsm machine coated gloss paper
​Installed in Spencer Place for Conditions Open Studios 2023

Close up of white fridge door with
Proposal for A Note to Go Out and Get Firewood
Pencil on paper
Installed on Mum's fridge, Somerset
​2020
Poster stuck to a wall, the poster shows a drawing stuck to a fridge, the drawing is of a note stuck with a magnet, the note reads "firewood"
Proposal for A Note to Go Out and Get Firewood (Installed on Mum's Fridge, Somerset)
Inkjet print on satin paper
Installed in Conditions Exhibition 2019-21, Whitgift Centre, Croydon
​2021

Close up of a small window pane within a white painted frame, through the window is an A4 sheet of white paper torn from a notebook affixed from behind almost filling the window, on the paper an accurate drawing of a torn piece of card with two holes above one another in the centre and roughly handwritten the word
Proposal to Empty the Stove
Pencil on paper
Installed in Mum's cottage, Somerset
​2020
Poster stuck to a wall, the poster shows a window with a drawing stuck to the inside facing out, the drawing is a a note which reads "Empty stove"
Proposal to Empty the Stove (Installed in Mum's Cottage, Somerset)
Inkjet print on satin paper
Installed in Conditions Exhibition 2019-21, Whitgift Centre, Croydon
​2021

A4 notebook open on woodgrain tabletop, on the centre of the page is an accurate drawing of a post it note with the handwritten words
Proposal for Stillness
Pencil on paper
​2020

A4 sheet of white paper cellotaped to a white painted surface, on the paper an accurate drawing of a square sign with a screw hole at each corner, dirt and smudges across its surface, and in black capitalised lettering
Proposal for No Climbing
Pencil on paper
Installed on studio door at Conditions, Croydon
2020
Hallway with the white painted door on which the drawing is cellotaped at eye level, light comes through a tall slot window to the left of the door, a length of wood leans against the corner of the wall left of the window

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