PHYLLIS TODD
| Biography | |
| 71 - 72 | Carlisle College of Art. |
| 72 - 75 | Kingston School of Art and Design. |
| 76 - 80 | Freelance Interior Design with annual work for the Edinburgh International Film Festival. |
| 80 - 81 | Reading University Post Graduate Certificate Education. |
| 82 - 87 | Taught Art and Pottery at Chatham School for Girls, Kent. |
| 88 - 08 | Morley College, London. |
| Awards | |
| 2004 | Dulwich Picture Gallery Summer Exhibition. Two paintings selected. |
| First Prize awarded for African Landscape. |
| Statement | |
| I was born in the Philippines and raised in Malaysia, Indonesia and Scotland. I have always loved to draw, it is a constant challenge. It is simply a desire to record and express my feelings about the world around us. My work is varied. Gesture drawing is a quick drawing responding to the model concerned with what they are doing or expressing rather than with what they look like. Lately I have been doing my Stripes Series. I started after a clear out when I had old odd bits of sketches and ideas which otherwise would have been discarded. I also have a collection of precious bits, bags, wrappings and origami papers and fabrics which I have saved (been unable to throw away) from my travels. Initially the stripes were about different papers and fabrics, then I realized they were a perfect way to record a journey or holiday, like a story board. I then started to make stripes of the area where I live. The town scape is changing so fast I felt the need to record what’s here now. During “lockdown 2020” the stripes bled into the spaces in between. |
| Exhibitions | |
| 1999 | Walcot Gallery, Kennington, London |
| 2000 | Whiteleys Atrium with Nine Elms Group of Artists, London |
| 2001 | Stockwell Arts Fair, London |
| 2002/3 | Open House at The Bowling Hall, Kennington, London |
| 2003/4 | Contemporary Art at 45 Marylebone High St., London |
| 2004 | Dulwich Picture Gallery Summer Exhibition, two paintings selected. |
| 2004 | Made at Morley, Morley Gallery, London |
| 2005 | Three Artists at 71 Mark Lane, London. |
| 2006 | Contemporary Art at 8 Thurloe Place, Cromwell Rd., London |
| 2006/7 | The Gallery, Burlington Arcade, London. |
| 2007/9 | Chelsea Art Gallery, Duke of York Sq., London |
| 2008/9 | AAF The Affordable Art Fair, London |
| 2010 | Glen Lyon Summer Art, Perthshire, Scotland |
| 2010 | Urban Art, Brixton, London |
| 2011 | Urban Art, Brixton and Lambeth Open Studios. |
| 2012 | Urban Art, Brixton and Lambeth Open Studios. |
| 2013 | Urban Art, Brixton, Lambeth Open Studios and PARALLAX ART FAIR, Chelsea Town Hall. |
| 2014 | Urban Art, Brixton |
| 2015 | Lambeth Open Studios, 3rd & 4th October. |
| 2016 | Urban Art, Brixton and Lambeth Open Studios |
| 2016 | Urban Art, Brixton and Lambeth Open Studios |
| 2017 | Urban Art, Brixton and Lambeth Open Studios |
| 2018 | Urban Art, Brixton and Lambeth Open Studios |
| 2019 | Urban Art, Brixton. |