Phil Constable was born in Canterbury, Kent, 1971. BA (Hons) Fine Art, Liverpool John Moore’s University
1995. MA Creative Technology at the University of Salford 1999. Associate lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan
University.
Phil’s work spans from site-specific installation in New York to moving image light installations in London, to
commercial artist represented by Comma Ca Arts, Manchester and KIN Gallery, Manchester. Phil exhibits
nationally and internationally.
Phil’s work takes inspiration from the layers of history and their presence in a particular time which are often
recorded and observed in a fragmented way. His work allows a glimpse into this place and subsequently into
the inner being which is often obscured by the mess and chaos of the everyday.
Phil has been developing Victorian processes with glass that involve hand silvering, mark making, gilding and
etching. The variations of distressed silvering has a relationship with how we summon and recall memories with
it’s distortions.
In his silvered pieces the viewer is involved in the work on many levels. Not just to observe but by the nature of
reflection, forced to become part of the work. His work arises questions such as where does the individual stand
in this consuming world? What’s their own identity in a digital falsified society and what marks are they making
to be left and observed, do we change anything? what’s they legacy?