Phil Coy Explained

Philip Coy (born 1971) is an English artist known for his films and public works exploring architectures and language.[1] He works across a range of media including sculpture, film, video installation, sound installation, photography, text, and performance.[2]

Life and work

Born in Gloucester, England, he grew up in the Forest of Dean, Birmingham and Norfolk. He studied Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University (1993), L' écoles des beaux arts à Nantes[3] (1995) and Slade School of Fine Art (2000).[4]

His early internet sourced video "Eleven Seconds of Paradise"[5] (2000) was made prior to the launch of Google images using AltaVista and included in the Hayward Gallery touring exhibition Incommunicado[6] [7] [8] (2003-4) and Dan Graham's Waterloo Sunset Pavillion, Hayward Gallery[9] (2002-2003). Incommunicados curator Margot Heller described Eleven seconds of paradise as

"a succinct comment on the negative impact of communication technologies, and as such its efficacy and relevance have increased in the short space of time since it was made."[10]

Coy used Earth observation data from satellites as source material in 2000 prior to the launch of Google Earth (2004) when satellite navigation became the ubiquitous cultural phenomenon it is today. His 'pixel replacements' such as A walk in the park (2000),[11] [12] Trinidad Triptych [Red square][13] (2004) and Black spot[14] [15] (2005), reproduced pixels from satellite images to scale, and installed and photographed them in the place they represented on the earth. The works combined techniques of digital imaging, minimalism and land art to produce a form of augmented reality. In 2016 Coy became the second Leverhulme artist-in-residence[16] at the Rutherford Appleton Space Laboratory following Elizabeth Price. He researched the processes and materials behind digital satellite imaging to produce the fulldome film and virtual reality installation Substance[17] [18] toured to FACT Liverpool[19] (2017), The Royal Observatory Planetarium,[20] South London Gallery[21] (2018), York Art Gallery.[22] [23]

The newsreader and reporter Julia Somerville starred in his film Façade (2010),[24] [25] [26] which casts London's glass architecture as a transparent subject rendered slowly opaque by the language it engenders.[27] Façade (2010) and Wordland (2008)[28] are held in the BFI Artists Moving Image Collection.

He was the inaugural artist in residence at Brunel University (2018–19)[29] where he devised the imprint youarehere![30] with author and academic Will Self. The project is explored in the essay amidst the susurration of motorways[31] by artist/writer/curator Richard Grayson.

Filmography

Public works

Swete Brethe (2021)[32] commissioned by Matt's Gallery, temporary installation adjacent to Embassy of the United States of America in London, featuring composition by Byron Wallen.

Stereo Pair (2021)[33] [34] commissioned by Brunel University London, permanent site-sensitive sound installation, John Crank Gardens in Brunel University.

Your right to continued existence (2016)[35] [36] Islington North, commissioned by TFL and Islington Council, installed under the 'Cally Bridge' on the Caledonian Road, London, adjacent to the London Overground, Caledonian Road & Barnsbury railway station.

Razzle Dazzle Boogie Woogie (2013)[37] [38] Permanent public realm commission installed opposite Lewisham station, visible from mainline railway between Kent, East Sussex and London Bridge. A curved architectural facade of backlit coloured glass panels create a digital camouflage over the facade of Lewisham's Glass Mill leisure Centre. At night the kinetic work is animated by the sounds of Lewisham.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: SCORES. https://web.archive.org/web/20200627210940/https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=scores&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=. dead. 27 June 2020. 1 Oct 2015. BFI LFF.
  2. Web site: Phil Coy. 27 June 2018. South London Gallery.
  3. Book: Reynaud, Patrick, and Coignet, Jean-Gabriel. Post Diplôme 1994-1995 Nantes. Galerie des Beaux-Arts. 2005. Centre Pompidou, Bibliothèque Kandinsky. 65.
  4. Web site: 10 June 2018. Phil Coy, Substance [a whole history of hollows and reliefs] - South London Gallery]. Slade, University College London.
  5. Web site: eleven seconds of paradise . Animate Projects . 12 July 2013.
  6. News: Incommunicado . Guardian . 7 June 2004 . 7 June 2004 . Hickling . Alfred .
  7. Web site: Incommunicado . Home . 13 July 2017.
  8. Web site: Incommunicado - at the Sainsbury Centre . BBC Norfolk . 16 October 2003.
  9. Web site: Waterloo Sunset Pavillion. 20 August 2011. Hayward Gallery.
  10. Book: Heller, Margot. Incommunicado. Hayward Gallery. 2003. 1853322326. British Library. 5.
  11. Web site: Collins . Susan . Framing the digital: Materialising New Media . instituto sergio motta . 17 November 2007.
  12. Web site: Great piece of Turf . Danielle Arnaud . 20 July 2003.
  13. Web site: Triangle Network Projects Phil Coy 2004 CCA, Port of Spain, Trinidad . Triangle Network . 3 August 2006.
  14. Web site: Real Estate Projects . B+B . 11 July 2008.
  15. Web site: Sullivan . Laura L . Get Real! Art, Regeneration, and Resistance . Mute . 10 April 2005 . 4 October 2005.
  16. Web site: 7 September 2017. Phil Coy – Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Space Residency. Invisible Dust.
  17. Web site: A whole history of hollows and reliefs. 4 June 2020. The Open Data Institute. 6 April 2020 .
  18. Web site: The Open Data Institute. 12 November 2020. Phil Coy.
  19. Web site: The New Observatory. 28 September 2017. FACT Liverpool.
  20. Web site: Spectral Power. 14 June 2018. Space Policy. 14 June 2018 . Dr Jill Stuart.
  21. https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/phil-coy-substance-a-whole-history-of-hollows-and-reliefs/ Phil Coy: substance [a whole history of hollows and reliefs]
  22. Web site: Strata Rocks Dust Stars. 27 September 2018. York Mediale.
  23. Web site: Strata Rocks Dust Stars. 29 September 2018. York Art Gallery.
  24. News: Whitstable Biennale: a new pearl among the art-world oysters . The Guardian . 18 June 2010 . Guardian . 18 June 2010 . Morgan . Eleanor .
  25. Web site: Façade, Phil Coy . Film London.
  26. Web site: February 14, 2011. Artprojx Cinema in association with Armory Show New York. Film London.
  27. Web site: 12 May 2010. Phil Coy, Façade. Whitstable Biennale.
  28. Web site: Wordland . British Film Institute . 13 November 2020.
  29. Web site: The art of self-surveillance – New Artist-in-Residence unveils debut work. 6 February 2019. Brunel University.
  30. Web site: Phil Coy: Artist-in-residence public programme. 1 December 2019. Artlicks.
  31. Web site: Grayson. Richard. 3 November 2019. amidst the susurration of motorways.
  32. Web site: 24 November 2021 . Swete Brethe . Matt's Gallery.
  33. Web site: 12 April 2021 . Stereo Pair . youarehere.
  34. News: 27 September 2022 . Clockwork Orange set 'switched on' as Brutalist sound installation . Brunel University News .
  35. Web site: Anna Hart. Tilly Fowler &. 8 September 2016. kingscrossfieldmap. AIR Kings Cross Field Map.
  36. Web site: 13 November 2020. your right to continued existence. your right to continued existence.
  37. Web site: 12 June 2013. Public art in Lewisham. Lewisham Council.
  38. Web site: 12 November 2020. Razzle Dazzle Boogie Woogie. Futurecity.

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