Drawing on her experience as an architect and her fascination with the quarries of Provence, Tooney Phillips has developed a body of work based on its inspiration.
Repeatedly working from the same site – a working limestone quarry not far from Cézanne’s beloved Carrières de Bibémus, her work is primarily abstract. She explores contours, edges, the in-between spaces found within the quarry’s geometry. She has recorded its changing topography for over twenty-five years through photography and drawing.
Back in the studio Tooney disrupts her original imagery through collage, printmaking and photomontage. She enjoys playing with the physicality of the paper, building up successive layers to cut back into them, using her scalpel to excavate and therefore reveal her work. From a large-format photomontage that has been constructed directly onto the gallery wall to her smaller works on paper. Tooney’ art work is process led, and its underlying Modernist premise is indebted to Cézanne’s abstract view of the world.
Tooney lives and works in London, U.K. She is also a practising architect and lecturer.
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