Brian Phillips (1939 - Ongoing)

Born in Manchescer be left school at 14 to work III I ManclJesIer adverusina 1FfICY,

firstly as an offtee boy and then eommc:relll IftISI. leaVlna in 1960 for National
His educatIOn was poor so be wasn’t the bnglllcst ofpupiiJ but hu art $I00d owand II

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16 be ba:ame the l””R1gcst Il’li$lIO blve work 011 show at the Stockport Open

ExhibitIOn in 1955. His wort _ 1 I s o 8CCeJl’Cd for shows at Mancbester Academy and the Royal Cambnao Academy in Willes.
He was pushed into advertisina because ‘be was aoodat 1ft’, II wasn’l willi he wanled 10 do but be S1uck at II for 2J years before findml himselfin hospital with I life threItet\lna illneu. This illness became the lumina poim of IUs life and from thII time OIIwvds he worked oootinuously for the: aoodofothers, mainly the menWly Ill. In 19110 he became An Team Leader in Prestwich Hospital, Manchescer plllltina munls WIth r-tieots.. He continued with Ibis for 5 years before beconuna self­ em~anddoin&mlftlsandartworksbopswithchildren,the:elderlyandthe mentally III. He has sUlce worked in the: Health Service and IlIso ran the: ‘ Scan in Bury’ projed, an 1ft sl\ldJo for the mentally ill, before moving 10 Scotland in 2000.

He has hid about 30 solo exhibitions throughout the north west of England incioolll& the: Manchester Royal Exchange, LlncasterCity Art Gallery, Vernon Gallery in Preston and Southport’s Atkinson Gallery. Also, he was I London fina.list in the John laina National Landscape Competition .. the Mall Galleries.

H IS work WIIS much admi~ by L S Lowry and the e:rlleruiner and 1ft critic George Melly prJIixd his work .. one ofhis reo;:enI exhibitions.