Tony Phillips

Tony Phillips (born 1952) is a British artist and printmaker.

Early life and education Phillips was born in Liverpool, England, in 1952 to an English mother and a Nigerian father. Phillips studied Mural Design at art college in Preston, graduating in 1972. In 1978, he moved to near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and has subsequently moved to Italy. He has also exhibited internationally. The drawings place the bronzes within their social and cultural context. They illustrate twelve events in the capture of the bronzes and their subsequent removal to western museums (such as the British Museum) and show the tension between views of a culture and its artefacts. In 1991, he was among the seven painters curated by Eddie Chambers in the History and Identity - Seven Painters exhibition at the Norwich Gallery, Norfolk Institute of Art and Design. In 1991, his work was included in the Shocks to the System national touring exhibition curated by the UK Arts Council. In 1997, his work was shown in the Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain 1966 - 1996 exhibition at the Caribbean Cultural Center, New York. A retrospective of his work from the 1970s onwards was shown in 2006 within the Liverpool Biennial of contemporary art. The works were placed within exhibition space in Senate House at the University of Liverpool. The Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition in 2013, In Black and White: Prints from Africa and the Diaspora, included some of his prints from their collection. In 2016, his work was shown in Artist and Empire at Tate Britain, London.