Phillip King

Phillip King: Sculpting in Colour, 2014
Directed by Gerald Fox

Wednesday 17 April 2024, 6.30pm

Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall
London
SW1Y 5AH

Moon / King
the work and friendship of Phillip King and Jeremy Moon - 1956 to 1973

A collaboration between Thomas Dane Gallery and Luhring Augustine

Private view: Thursday 25 January, 6–8pm
Exhibition dates: 26 January–20 April 2024

Thomas Dane Gallery
3 & 11 Duke Street, St James’s
London SW1

Frieze London, Stand E5

For Frieze London 2022 Thomas Dane Gallery will present a project organised entirely by artist Anthea Hamilton. The booth will be an evolution of her signature approach to exhibition making, seen most recently in her show at Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, which brings together different disciplines such as fine art, design, and museology, blurring the lines and boundaries between walls, floor, furniture, and artworks, to create a complete environment for the booth.

List of artists:

Hurvin Anderson
Lynda Benglis
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Alexandre da Cunha
José Damasceno
Anya Gallaccio
Luigi Ghirri
Anthea Hamilton
Mumtaz Karimjee
Barbara Kasten
Rita Keegan
Phillip King
Ella Kruglyanskaya
Jean-Luc Moulène
Magdalene A. N. Odundo
Dana Schutz
Amy Sillman
Caragh Thuring
Nancy Willis

Anthea Hamilton will be in conversation as part of the Frieze Masters Talks programme at 3pm on Sunday 16 October at Studio Voltaire.

Stand E05

 
For Frieze London 2022 Thomas Dane Gallery will present a project organised entirely by artist Anthea Hamilton. The booth will be an evolution of her signature approach to exhibition making, seen most recently in her show at Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, which brings together different disciplines such as fine art, design, and museology, blurring the lines and boundaries between walls, floor, furniture, and artworks, to create a complete environment for the booth.
 
Hamilton has selected works from across the gallery programme plus a special group of invited artists.
 
List of artists:
Hurvin Anderson

Lynda Benglis

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Alexandre da Cunha

José Damasceno

Anya Gallaccio

Luigi Ghirri

Anthea Hamilton

Mumtaz Karimjee

Barbara Kasten

Rita Keegan

Phillip King

Ella Kruglyanskaya

Jean-Luc Moulène

Magdalene A. N. Odundo

Dana Schutz

Amy Sillman

Caragh Thuring

Nancy Willis
 
Preview day: 12 October

Public days: 13 - 16 October
 
Frieze Masters Talks
Anthea Hamilton will be in conversation as part of the Frieze Masters Talks programme at 3pm on Sunday 16 October at Studio Voltaire.
 
Studio Voltaire

1A Nelsons Row

London SW4 7JR
 

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Phillip King, one of the most ground-breaking British artists of the last 70 years.

Phillip died peacefully with his wife Judy at his side.

We were blessed to have worked with Phillip in the last eight years of his life, during which time he re-taught us that art and sculpture-making should know no rules or limitations. His curiosity, joy, and sparkle were boundless and contagious, and we will miss him dearly.

Phillip was born in Tunis in 1934 to a French mother and English father. In 1945 he moved to London and went on to study modern languages at the University of Cambridge. He eventually enrolled at St Martin’s School of Art where he met Anthony Caro and the New Generation group of artists, who would go on to completely revolutionise sculpture from the 1960s onwards.

A real free-spirit and risk-taker, Phillip worked tirelessly throughout his life experimenting with materials, forms and colours, seldom repeating himself, as he moved from periods of working in steel, ceramic, polyurethane, found objects as well as bronze and stone. He would rarely make preparatory drawings, rather referring to shapes and colours that would appear to him in dreams. He was a modest man, entirely committed to his rigorous exploration, rarely missing a day in the studio right up to the end of his life.

Phillip loved to be surrounded by younger artists and loved to teach, taking up professorships in the UK, Europe and the US. In 1967 he was appointed a trustee of Tate, and from 1999 to 2004 he was President of the Royal Academy of Arts.

His works are installed in public spaces around the world, from Australia and Japan to Scandinavia, China and the US, and are represented in some of the most important museum collections including Tate, Pompidou and MoMA. His final major public project, La Ronde de Rennes, will be unveiled later this year in the French city of Rennes.