Ciara Phillips

Phillips draws much of her inspiration from Corita Kent (1918/1986), a pioneering artist, educator and activist famous for her reinterpretations of advertising slogans and imagery relevant to 1960s consumer culture.

She is the founder of the artist collective Poster Club and her ongoing project titled (Workshop 2010—)[6] has been subject to various reiterations after its initial exhibit at The Showroom Gallery in London won her a nomination for the Turner Prize in 2014.

[9] Significant to make mention to, is Ciara Phillips' Comrade Objects Exhibition held at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario (Fall 2016).

This being, her first major exhibition in Canada, draws upon her interest in collaboration — including a rendition of her Turner Prize-Nominated Workshop (2010 — ongoing) as well as a body of work done in partnership with Clive Robertson, a Canadian artist and curator.

Working collaboratively alongside Phillips', she explores the potential of the experimental and wider uses of print while remaining current to the events within the gallery and community's context.

In this body of work, she screen-printed a collection of photos of her peers onto fabric with text and layers of colour printed overtop in an effort to mask and highlight areas of these photographs.