Rachel Phillips

Four Hats

2014

Edition of 8 Fixed is a series of photographs made by Rachel Phillips' alter-ego Madge Cameron: Until this project, Madge Cameron (b. 1935) had always seen photography as a sep...

Make me a willow cabin at your gate, and call upon my soul within the house. Twelfth Night, Shakespeare Certainly, home is a place. It is also a place of mind. For the spirit too, home offers familiarity and solace, shelter and rest. Yet a house is not for hiding from the world; it has windows, and doors to enter but also leave by. As a girl, I adored the Wind in the Willows where homes were in and of the landscape—built underground, along the riverbank, and in the woods. A place where you can be still, letting the world come to you, watching birds fly by. This series of photographs blends the domesticity of home with the joy of wilderness, the natural world. The paper houses are built from letters, postcards and envelopes saved through the decades in old shoeboxes by my grandparents and discovered in their attic a few years ago. The images are printed on old envelopes collected from around the world; artifacts from the last centuries. What did the envelopes contain? Where did they come from? In whose mailbox were they delivered? What stories do they tell? – Rachel Phillips Artwork is an Archival Pigment Print transfer on Antique Envelope...

For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...

The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be make in the nuclear reactor of stars. It came to our planet when the Earth was first forming, as dust from catastrophic astronomical events –sta...

The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be make in the nuclear reactor of stars. It came to our planet when the Earth was first forming, as dust from catastrophic astronomical events –sta...

Ghosts of Love If love took form, if we could see it, and if so watch, as it faded, or got lost, or just gave up, slowly softly, disappeared, disillusioned, dejected, I think I saw it, as a tree in the woods, as a pale moth, a boat upturned on a shore, moonlight on ocean, a feather, drifting down, discarded, I looked and, love was everywhere, sighing, trembling, shimmering, fluttering, tender, as it departed, and as I watched...

Toni Garnn. Gold Edition, 2017 by Hunter & Gatti From the series of IWMYAS Acrylic and oil-pastel black & white pigment print Image size: 33.8 H x 24.5 W in. Frame size: 37 H x 28 ...

Toni Garnn II, 2017 by Hunter & Gatti From the series of IWMYAS Acrylic and oil-pastel black & white pigment print Image size: 33.8 H x 24.5 W in. Frame size: 37 H x 28 W x 2 D in....

Jamie Dornan, 2017 by Hunter & Gatti From the series of IWMYAS Acrylic and oil-pastel black & white pigment print Image size: 33.8 H x 24.5 W in. Frame size: 37 H x 28 W x 2 D in. ...

Lewis Hamilton II, 2017 by Hunter & Gatti From The series, I will make you a star Acrylic paint, Oil pastel pigment print on canvas. Size: 74 H x 52 W in. Mixed Media Signed front...

Toni Garrn, 2017 by Hunter & Gatti From The series, I will make you a star Acrylic paint, Oil pastel pigment print on canvas. Size: 74 H x 52 W in. Mixed Media Signed front and si...

Bruno Mars, 2017 by Hunter & Gatti From The series, I will make you a star Acrylic paint, Oil pastel pigment print on canvas. Size: 74 H x 52 W in. Mixed Media Signed front and sig...