Phil Constable was born in Canterbury, Kent in 1971. A graduate of BA (hons) Fine Art, Liverpool John Moore’s University and MA Creative Technology at the University of Salford. He was Senior Design designer for Guardian Media Group where he was responsible for streaming television programs, Channel M then went onto develop the user interface for large web portal Manchester Online. His work is project based that comments on architectural spaces, signs of inhabitants and memory that covers various media from video installations, large scale vinyl installations, prints and painting that has shown nationally and internationally. Currently associate lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and co-founder and director of Adorn Creatives, a bespoke large scale branding company with a wide client base including interior designers, typography designers, graphic designers and architects.
http://halflife01.tumblr.com/
http://www.philconstable.co.uk/
My primary interest lies in the boundaries created by architecture and the way it forms a direct control system over the public, blurring and investigating the gap between art and life. I am influenced by the passage of time and its effects on structures, machinery, and materials. These effects are the sources for the materials that I use in the assembly of my pieces they represent, to me, a contemporary archaeological study. Examining the psychological and sociological impact of the architecture of the location and how it controls its unseen inhabitants.
Rural Projects, New York – Half Life
Developed ideas based around the engagement with dissolving and vanishing structures and forms, and forms found in the environment.
New Heath & Newstead wood – Wedgwood project
Site specific piece recording of previous human constructions found in the forest environment of New Heath & Newstead wood. Looking at the half-life of the objects and their relationship memories.
Contemporary Art Manchester – CAM
Vinyl and print installation on the iconic Will Alsop CHIPS building supported by Urban Splash and in association with Manchester International Festival 2009.
RePlace Exhibition: Photography and Moving Image
2a Ada Street, London, E8 4QU
[noplaceprojects*], with the support of Openvizor are pleased to present RePlace, a new exhibition of video and photography. As city dwellers, we are constantly aware of the ever-changing urban environments that are replaced, reinvented and re-arranged. Many places are all experienced in similar ways regardless of culture and destination and the works brought together in this exhibition explore some of these themes.
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