Between earth, four views
Artist
Phillips, Michael
Production date
2020
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Object Detail
Title
Between earth, four views
Production date
2020
Medium
woodblock prints
Measurements
27 x 19.5 cm
Object type
Interpretive text
Michael Phillips is a Brisbane based artist who specialises in printmaking and the production of artists’ books. In 2020 whilst undertaking a Master of Visual Arts at Queensland College of the Arts, Griffith University, Michael was awarded the Artspace Mackay Foundation Tertiary Artists’ Book Award for ‘Between earth, four views’. This work is an extension of the artists’ conceptual approach to printmaking—in which Phillips aims to create ‘printable events’. For Phillips this coined term describes the non-figurative, expressionist narratives he creates, characterised by rich colour and flat textual effects from the plate .
Of this work Phillips writes (2020),
“With the book form you have an object where touch and seeing occur in unison. A combination that triggers a mix of cultural associations in the mind, enhanced by the materiality of the object and added to by the sound of turning paper and the smell of ink. That ‘world’ within the structure of the book has all these elements coming together. The beauty of the book form is that a sequence is built and holds tension—folded and bound it carries that story. For me printmaking, and in this context the artists’ book is art - an act of poetic construction. Between earth, four views is intended to be viewed in both landscape and portrait orientation and read from back to front, and front to back. It is a work examining the need to look at one fixed system through differing viewpoints and puts forward alternate interpretations.”
Artspace Mackay 2024
Of this work Phillips writes (2020),
“With the book form you have an object where touch and seeing occur in unison. A combination that triggers a mix of cultural associations in the mind, enhanced by the materiality of the object and added to by the sound of turning paper and the smell of ink. That ‘world’ within the structure of the book has all these elements coming together. The beauty of the book form is that a sequence is built and holds tension—folded and bound it carries that story. For me printmaking, and in this context the artists’ book is art - an act of poetic construction. Between earth, four views is intended to be viewed in both landscape and portrait orientation and read from back to front, and front to back. It is a work examining the need to look at one fixed system through differing viewpoints and puts forward alternate interpretations.”
Artspace Mackay 2024
Credit line
Mackay Regional Council Art Collection, purchased with the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal artists' book fund 2020.
Accession number
2020.18