Perdita Phillips

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walking, listening, mapping, animals, minerals, plants, ecologies, installations, exchange, photography, drawing, collage, videos, eclogues www.linktr.ee/perditaphillips

Strings of algae on paper with sand still clinging to it
Blue cyanoptye with faint presence of feral cat and a number of quendas.
Blue cyanoptye with faint presence of feral cat and a number of quendas. Natura Autem Vivit, Sed Occisio de Felibus Cyanotype print (ed/var edition of 3) 92.5 x 131 cm by perdita phillip
Detail of a photogravure print; black print of rock over multicoloured geological map (greens and yellow
Two hands hold onto an a3 sheet of printed paper. It’s windy but the shot is cropped so you can only see river water beyond. The sheet has a big photo of the same river with one hand holding a bunch of cards. There is magenta text and shapes over the printed photo but these are too small to decipher.
A person’s hands flicking the pages of a zine in windy weather on the banks of a river/estuary
A picture of light clouds in the sky at sunset. Some are grey and some are orange
A tightly cropped black and white image of a pile of rocks in a shallow hole, surrounded by wild, grassy earth
Watery patterns of ochre and botanical dyes over a grey, oval-shaped print
A chair with a cloud of corks attached to the rear legs is in the middle distance. People can be seen 18m below on a forest trail
A bentwood chair with a cloud of corks flying behind it is high up in a forest canopy
A pale cream piece of paper with two pale brown photorealistic monochrome rocks on it. They are both quartz. There is a lot of negative space above, left and right of the rocks.
Decayed cards with moss (stacked horizontally like they used to be in catalogue card drawers) against a white background
Ai generated numbat with fat head and stripes going the wrong way
Slightly jerky footage of the side of a track (filmed whilst walking so footsteps are obvious). Shows sky, trees, grass, ends with view of Surprise Lake in the crater below
Cinema screen in darkness with an image of a tree with silhouetted Norfolk Island Pines in the background
Hands turn the pages of a ‘snake bind’ artist’s book with brownish, stained pages
Large sheet of paper with big a red mud splotch and a hat and price of fabric attached to it. The hat is directly in the place where the bucked of mud was dumped
A badly damaged book photographed against a grassy sward. The title is just visible
Front-on view of common Bronzewing
A bentwood chair on a forest path with a cloud of corks attached to the back legs
Scarred tree in left hand corner against grey sky. Small round and slightly coloured cellular structures float and twirl through space
Animation of a historical photo of two young girls in white dresses floating on a black background (not AI)
Shear Zone residency. Penny Coss Perdita Phillips Sarah Tomasetti Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre this Sunday 19 October, 10:00 to 12:00.
Close up bottle brush blossom in footpath
Overlapping stereograph cards with black and white photos and silver letterpress on green card
A scene of serrated banksia leaves and cones
Two sepia prints on canvas against a worn brown wooden background. One is crumpled, stained red and eaten by termites and mould
A rough watercolour on an off-white scrap of paper showing a building with classical architecture on fire with shooting golden flames and smoke flowing off the page to the upper right. The hand written words underneath read “the unthinkable”
Looking straight up at diaphanous white wispy high clouds against intense muffled blue sky. No other details visible.
Sombre-toned image with blue-yellow geological map superimposed over greyish stacked books and haphazard piles of newspaper
A hand turns the page of a small artist’s book with smerged images of geological maps and piles of newspaper
Green reeds with faint silver outline of something spindly
Full sized T rex type dinosaur model next to modern concrete museum building with tiny pigeon on its nose
A city scene at night taken from a few stores up with a view of a partly lit park below
strongly ochre-coloured drawing with large text woodlines and much smaller text as handwriting
An old photo of a mineral museum with large wood and glass display cases