Zoe Phillips
Zoe has a degree in Technical Arts Interpretation and for years has grappled with where she’s perceived to sit creatively. During her recent Masters, Zoe explored her relationship with objects, trusting the process and reconnecting with making.
Throughout her career, as a prop maker, she has always made objects to communicate others stories. These last 2 years, she has embraced her ‘Jill of all trades’ identity and used objects to challenge perceptions. Her work uses objects as conduits to ask questions about disability and accessibility. She’s interested in discussions about how and why we wear the lenses we do. How society frames disability and how a lens shift might change the way we view the concept of ‘broken?’ and ‘useless?’.
Zoe Phillips
Zoe has a degree in Technical Arts Interpretation and for years has grappled with where she’s perceived to sit creatively. During her recent Masters, Zoe explored her relationship with objects, trusting the process and reconnecting with making.
Throughout her career, as a prop maker, she has always made objects to communicate others stories. These last 2 years, she has embraced her ‘Jill of all trades’ identity and used objects to challenge perceptions. Her work uses objects as conduits to ask questions about disability and accessibility. She’s interested in discussions about how and why we wear the lenses we do. How society frames disability and how a lens shift might change the way we view the concept of ‘broken?’ and ‘useless?’.
‘If I gave you a bowl’
Mixed Media: Porcelain, brass, oak leaves, beeswax, resin 31cm dia. approx:
13cm deep
Why an oak leaf? Because the Oak tree is traditionally seen as a symbol of strength, it’s majestic and reliable. Solid and grounded. And from little acorns, mighty
oaks grow.
If I gave you a bowl…
If I gave you a bowl, you’d know what to do with it?
If I gave you a broken bowl? Then what?
It’s useless right?
Wrong.
Lens shift.
Perspective.
….seeing the world differently doesn’t mean we are ‘broken’.
It means, all it takes is a change of perspective to value the human in all of us.
If I placed this ‘broken’ bowl in a museum, is it’s story and existence worth more?
Change the environment.
Shift the perspective.
