Tom Phillips was born in London in 1937. While reading English at St Catherine's College, Oxford, he studied drawing at Ruskin School at the same time. He then went to Camberwell School of Art where his chief source of inspiration was Frank Auerbach.
He won first prize at The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition in 1969 and went on to exhibit in many solo and group exhibitions around the world.
Two early exhibitions were the 1973 showing of 'A Humument' in its entirety at the ICA, London and the 1975 retrospective at the Kunsthalle, Basel.
In 2001 an exhibition of his drawings was held at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth.
Phillips is also known as a writer and a composer. He is currently working with composer Tarik O Regan on a chamber opera of Joseph Conrand's novella 'Heart of Darkness'.
"I am pleased to have Burns infiltrate my long worked on book A Humument since his ardour as a love poet and political convictions have been such a durable inspiration to other poets. The page I have dedicated to him reflects this longevity and stresses via a verbal allusion to Elvis Presley his undying relevance."
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