About
kennardphillipps is a collaboration working since 2002 to produce art in response to the invasion of Iraq. It has evolved to confront power and war across the globe. The work is made for the street, the gallery, the web, newspapers & magazines, and to lead workshops that develop peoples’ skills and help them express their thoughts on what’s happening in the world through visual means. The work is made as a critical tool that connects to international movements for social and political change. We don’t see the work as separate to social and political movements that are confronting established political and economic systems. We see it as part of those movements, the visual arm of protest. We want it to be used by people as a part of their own activism, not just as pictures on the wall to contemplate. To facilitate this, as well as selling our limited edition prints on the site enabling us to fund the making of the work, there is a free download page of images with a voluntary contribution to the International Solidarity Movement.
Exhibitions
2009
G20 the new number of the beast Carnaby St, London
Embedded Art Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
2008
Art Media & Contesd Space tepublic art project by Interface, Belfast
Alchemy Carnaby St, London
Iraq: A Process of Resistance Ink-D, Brighton
Uncertified Documents Pumphouse Gallery, London
2007
Antennae Houston Centre of Photography, Houston, Texas
Blairaq Leonard Street Gallery, London
Ammunition St. Margaret’s Church Art Gallery, Norwich
Forms of Resistance : Artists & the desire for social change from 1871 to the present Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Green Zone / Red Zone Gemak, the Free Academy, Den Hague
Santa’s Ghetto Manger Square, Bethlehem, Palestine
2006
Untitled (Iraq) Photofusion, London
War on War Room, Picture This Warchild exhibition, Bargehouse, London
War on War Poorvoon Kirjasto, Poorvoo, Finland
Prints Now Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Plug County Hall, London
Santa’s Ghetto Oxford Street, London
Obscenity V22 AshwinStreet, London
2005
Demo Nørrebro Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Street Art Akciok Millenarison Park, Budapest, Hungary
War on War Room, eastInternational05’ Norwich
Award Sunek / Thrust 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, MGLC & Tobacna, Ljubljana
Award , Artfutures , Bloomberg gallery , London
2004
Award Henry Peacock Gallery, London
Award Street Level Gallery, Glasgow
Pax Britannica The Aquarium, London
Demo City Hall, London
Collections
2009
Photo Op editioned lightbox, bought by Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
2005
Award Print portfolio, bought by Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Workshops – Lectures – Conferences
2008
Art Media & Contested Space panel discussion & artists’ talk, Interface, School of art and design, University of Ulster, Belfast
In conversation with Gordon , Brighton Photo Biennial
Uncertified Documents artists’ talk, Pumphouse Gallery, London
2007
Lecture, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich
Materiality to Hyperreality: Appropriated Media in Contemporary Art University of Houston, Texas, USA
The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking Symposium, Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London
Arts and Law Seminar Kings College Research Centre, Cambridge
Capturing the Movement Institute of Education, London
Lecture, Leonard Street Gallery, London
Workshop Green Zone / Red Zone, Gemak, the Free Academy, Den Hague
Interface Research Seminar Interface: Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast
2006
Seminar on War on War School of Graphic Design, Porvoo, Finland
Lecture, Poorvoon Kirjasto, Finland
Lecture, Photofusion, London
The Art of Political Protest , Marxism Conference, London
2005
Ethics into Aesthetics Conference, Norwich School of Art
Graphic Agitation Conference, Marxism , London
2004
Workshop on digitalmontage , Street Level Gallery, Glasgow
Residencies
2008
Interface: Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast
2005
Artist in Residence at eastInternational’05, Norwich
Commissions
2009
Cafe of Equivalent$ commissioned by Laboratory of Insurrectory Imagination for C.R.A.S.H. , part of 2degrees festival, London
Control Room #2 commissioned by Akademie der Kunste, Berlin for Embedded Art exhibition
2008
No Third Runway photomontage commissioned by Greenpeace for newspaper advert
48-sheet billboard commissioned by Art Media & Contested Space at Interface, Belfast
billboard commissioned by Nakba60, London
From Canaan to Palestine (working title) commissioned by the Palestinian Cultural Centre for permanent display
Palestinian Gallery, London
2007
18.03.03 commissioned by Van Abbemuseum for Forms of Resistance exhibition, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Darth Vader mask commissioned by Lucas films, London
2004
DEMO commissioned by Greater London Authority for City Hall, London
2003
Peace on Earth (banned by Orange) commissioned for Brighten Up London by Damon Albarn, sponsored by Orange
Reviews Interviews (Radio Television)
Images published (magazines, newspapers, books)
the Guardian 13.10.04
Dazed and Confused 11.04
Revolve 12.04
The Times July 21st 2004 p21-22 T2, ‘The radical power of paint’, interview with John Russell Taylor
The Independent guide 7th August 2004, ‘The five best shows in London’
Red Pepper June 2004, p38-39.
The Independent 10th August 2004 p13, ‘Award’ by Sue Hubbard
The Scotsman’ 23rd November 2004 p32-33, ‘Medium first, then meaning’ by Susan Mansfield.
Morning Star 5th October 2004 p6, ‘Mayor unveils anti-war art exhibition’.
Metro 6th October 2004 p32, ‘Anti-war Demo at City Hall’.
Morning Star 8th October 2004 ‘City Hall hosts its own Demo’, Ken Livingstone.
Artdaily.com 3rd November 2004, ‘Peter Kennard at City Hall’.
The Guardian 13th October 2004 p9, ‘Delegates gather to put world to rights’ by Tanya Branigan.
Dazed and Confused September 2004 p159.
Arbrjderen 8th December 2004 p17.
200 Pajuden December 2004 p12.
Interview on Radio London 4th October 2004
Stop the War ISBN1 905192 00 2 Bookmarks Publications, 2005, p120, 121
Inside covers front and back
Free Association issue 1, 2006, p54, 57
malababa ISBN D.L. B-32906-2006, 2006, p3, 20
Socialist Review February 2006, inside front cover
Uusimaa interview 1st March 2006, p3 p12
Printmaking Today Interview April 2006
Prints Now : Directions and Definitions by Gill Saunders and Rosie Miles
ISBN 1 85177 480 7 V&A Publications, 2006 p13, 22, 22, 23
The Guardian 29th April 2006 p35, ‘Op Art’
Red Pepper issue141 may 2006, rear view p39
bulb’ issue10 June 2006 p43
Telegraph Magazine 29th July 2006, p30, 31, 33
the Guardian 1st Dec 2006 p5
the Independent on Sunday’ 3rd December 2006 , p42
Telegraph Magazine 30th Dec 2006 Cover
Interview the Independent 2nd Jan 2007, p10, 11
The Daily Telegraph 6th Jan 2007, Cover Review section
Sky News 20th March 2007, Inside Iraq
Radio interview , Aktuellt17, Radio Vega YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company) 19th April 2007
Houston Press 3rd May 2007, Night&Day cover
campaign 4th May 2007, p28
New Statesman 7th May 2007, p49
Avantgarde magazine 50 British Contemporary Artists 11th May 2007, p25
British Medical Journal 19th May 2007 vol334, p1030-1031
Portfolio No.45, May 2007p66, 67
spot magazine Houston Centre of Photography vol.XXIV No.2 summer 2007, p4
Student BMJ July 2007, p288
the Guardian 30th Nov 2007 greenpeace ad p.12
New Statesman 17th Dec2007-3rd Jan2008 p.33
New Statesman 21st Jan 2008 article ‘ART is the new activism’ p.38-40
The Independent 18th Feb 2008 Extra review p.12-13
Morning Star 4th March 2008 review p.9
Saturday Telegraph Magazine 12th April 2008 illustration p.26-27
VROOM issue07 2008 illustrated interview p.44-50
FLUX issue64 2008 text and images p.114 inside fold-out back cover
Photoworks 10 May-October 2008 back cover
grafik 176 August 2009 illustrated profile p.38-46