Phil Ashcroft — Biographie — Slash Paris

Education

1992-94

• Post-Grad Diploma Illustration, St. Martins College of Art & Design, London

1989-92

• BA Hons Illustration, Harrow College of Art & Design, Harrow

1988-89

• Foundation, West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham

Awards

2007

• Finalist Celeste Art Prize

1998

• Daler Rowney and Liquitex Awards

1991

• Royal Society of Art Travel Award to Hong Kong

Solo Exhibitions

2007

• PhlAsh, Magma, Manchester

2006

• Toxicity, Margaret Harvey Gallery, UH Galleries, St Albans

2005

• Yeti in Hong Kong, EXIT/double-park, Hong Kong

2003

• Toxic Landscapes, I Love…Art Gallery, Brussels

2002

• Phil Ashcroft, Arc-Arts, Manchester

2001

• Nitro Deluxe, Deptford X, London

1998

• Duel, Bedford Hill Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010

• Mind The Gap, Less is More Projects, Chic Art Fair, Paris
• No Soul for Sale, Tate Modern, London
• Sleight of Hand, Recoat Gallery, Glasgow
• The Collection of the Late Mister X, Less is More Projects, Chic Dessin, Paris
• Print Now 2, Bearspace, London

2009

• Over the Wall, No Borders Gallery, Hong Kong
• 3-2-1 Solstice, Adapta Gallery, Hong Kong
• Go Get Your Shinebox, Brooklynite Gallery, New York
• The Free Art Fair 2009 (curated by Jasper Joffe), The Barbican, London
• Perfect Present, Stable Productions, 242 Space, London
• Deptford X 09 presents FLUX, London
• 1984, Kowalsky Gallery, DACS, London
• We Stride Worldwide, Concrete Hermit, London
• The Golden Record, The Collection Museum, Lincoln (touring to G39, Cardiff)

2008

• Wonder Island (curated by Emi Avora and Patrick Michalopoulos ), Schwartz Gallery, London
• Heart of Glass, Concrete and Glass, Spitalfields Town Hall, London (curated by Flora Fairbairn & Paul Hitchman)
• Cans 2 Festival, London (collaboration with Will Barras)
• The Golden Record, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
• Special Relationship, Scion, Culver City, Los Angeles (exh. cat.)

2007

• Open Studio, Kingsland Road, London
• Out of the Box and in the German Ryan Collection, New Art Gallery, Walsall
  (Oct 2007 until Oct 2008)
• Celeste Art Prize 2007, T2, London & touring; Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh
• ARTfutures 2007, Bloomberg SPACE, London
• Winter Exhibition 2007, Contemporary Art Projects, London

2006

• Elephant Technique, Village Underground, London
• My Life in Art, My Life in Art, London

2005

• ARTfutures 2005, Bloomberg SPACE, London
• PSP Presents Cut-Out (Sony/Peter Saville), Oki-Ni, London

2004

• All The People We Like Are Dead, 17 Kingsland Road, London
• Stick Em Up 2, Revolver, Melbourne
• ARTfutures 2004, City of London School, London

2003

• Design-A-Qee Expo, Playlounge,London & touring; Minneapolis, Hong Kong, Tokyo
• Scrawl Collective, Lab101, Santa Monica
• Stick Em Up, Objex Art Space, Miami

2002

• Graffiti Meets Windows, Hank-Yu, Osaka

Publications

2008

• Liz Farrelly, Ric Blackshaw, Street Art (Making it and Selling It), RotoVision SA

2007

• Gavin Lucas, Badge Button Pin, Laurence King Publishing

2006

• Crossfields, issue 2: Home, annual
• Michael Dorrian, Liz Farrelly, Business Cards 2, Laurence King Publishing
• Simon Hollington, Toxicity: Phil Ashcroft, exh. cat., Margaret Harvey Gallery, UH
• Galleries, St Albans

2005

• Faesthetic, issue 5, Ohio, USA, annual

2004

• Michael Dorrian, Liz Farrelly, The Art of Saying Hello, Laurence King Publishing
• Miser and Now, issue 6, quarterly

2003

• Graphic 01, Spring, quarterly

2002

• Michael Dorrian, David Recchia, Stick Em Up, Booth-Clibborn Editions

2001

• Ric Blackshaw, Liz Farrelly, Scrawl Too: More Dirt, Booth-Clibborn Editions

Articles and Reviews

2010

• Pick Up The Cream of British Art, Shortlist, 14 January

2009

• Anna Richardson, Fantastic Play, Design Week, 17 December

2008

• Scion x Scrawl, Juxtapoz (US), issue 89
• Special Relationship, Show & Tell, MODART, issue 16

2007

• Ric Blackshaw, Phil Ashcroft, Computer Arts Projects, issue 101, September
• Arata Sasaki, Interview with Phil Ashcroft, HITSPAPER.com, Japan, 7 February
• Marc Valli, PhlAsh Interview, Magmabooks.com, 17 January
• Five Questions For…, Metro (Manchester ed.), 15 January

2006

• Scrawl of the Wild, Times on Saturday, 16 December
• Christmas Gift Guide, Metro (London ed.), 23 November
• Gallery, Creative Review, September
• Yolanda Zappaterra, Stretch The Canvas, Design Week, 3 August
• Julie McCord, Inspired by the Buncefield Blast, Hemel Gazette, 21 June

2005

• Yeti in Hong Kong, Cool — Special 100th Edition, Taiwan, December
• Yeti in Hong Kong, Apple Daily, Hong Kong, 28 November
• Yeti in Hong Kong, Monday — Bee, Hong Kong, issue 64, 25 November
• Helvetica + Phlash Exhibition, Friday, Hong Kong, issue 51, November
• Alexandra Carroll, Meet the Maker, HK, Hong Kong, November
• Yeti in Hong Kong, Touch, Hong Kong, issue 47, 22 November
• Insight, Advanced Photoshop, November/December
• String Em Up – Sony Dishes Out Free Art, Arena, August
• PSP Presents Cut-Out, Creative Review, July
• Liz Farrelly, Fender Bender, Design Week, 14 July

2004

• Daily Planet, Discovery Channel Canada, TV
• Will Bennett, Object Of The Week, Daily Telegraph, 29 March

2003

• 100 Greatest Gifts, Art & Culture, Independent on Sunday, 28 November
• Hip-Hop Week, MTV, TV
• Liz Farrelly, Drawing Conclusions, Design Week, cover and article, 7 August
• Lakshmi Bhaskaran, Profile, Graphics International, February

2002

• Rob Haynes, Art That Is Out Of This World, Metro (Manchester ed.), 12 March
• Japan Broadcasting Corporation, TV news feature, July

1998

• Graffiti Meets Windows, Plus+81, Japan, Autumn, Volumn 17

1997

• Helen Sumpter, Galleries Choice, Evening Standard, 8 August
• Alex Rayner, Edge of Abstraction, I-D Magazine, Dec 97-Jan 98
• Visit Space, The Independent — Eye, 11 November

Selected Projects

2007

• The Battle Of Algiers (1966), theatrical release film poster, Maiden Voyage
• Pollution poster, Don’t Panic
• limited edition tee, Oki Ni

2006

• Air Force 1, three back-lit panels and limited tee for Nike Town, London
• Character for Yahoo! UK IMAX conference
• Edition of five screenprints, Scrawl Collective

2005

• Godzilla (1954) theatrical release film poster, limited edition print and DVD for British Film Institute
• PSP Presents Cut-Out, customisation project for Sony PSP/Peter Saville Design

2004

• Set of badges and limited edition tee, Concrete Hermit
• Series of tees, Scrawl Collective

2003

• Diversity Works, commission for New York Times magazine, 14 September
• In-store painting, DEAL REAL hip-hop store, Marlborough Court, London

2000

• Limited edition silk tie, OKI, Germany

1995

• Set of four stamp designs, Royal Mail

1994

• Poster and leaflet campaign, Amnesty International UK

Collections

• Levis
• New Art Gallery Walsall
• Royal Mail
• Sony Archive
• Private and corporate collections in Europe, Asia and America