E-Mail: philsimpson1@hotmail.co.uk
Blog: www.lifeaswe-knowit.blogspot.com
Phil Simpson is currently a second year Interactive Arts student at Manchester Metropolitan University. He specialises in photography and visual arts and likes to experiment with predominantly digital mediums such as photography, video, animation and graphics.
His practise is divided into two conflicting aspects; The first part of his work is based around the documentation of reality through photography and video, studying and observing the process and effects of time as it passes by. Through this documentation, social and political contexts are raised as well as commentary on urban life, time and space. He also employs manipulative techniques in attempts to abstract and redefine what we perceive as reality.
The second side to his practise is entirely based upon abstraction and manipulation. This is where discoveries are made through constant experimentations with camera technique and computer manipulation, whether it be photography, video or animation. The basis to this experimental approach is the idea of destruction and reconstruction of images and video. He takes a more creative and graphical approach to this work, allowing the experimentations to evolve into abstract, surreal and striking imagery; pattern and repetition play vital roles. Creative ways of seeing his final pieces are often developed, using audience perception and interaction to create an experience for the viewer.
Phil is available for freelance within photography and currently works as a music photographer for a Manchester band , Death To The Strange and club night Clinic at Joshua Brooks. He also works as an event photographer for UKevents.net.
He has exhibited his photography in Manchester Piccadilly Gardens as part of Future Everything arts week and twice at Manchester’s Link gallery and once with Creative Transit at The Cavendish Bar MCR. Phil has also sold photographic prints and his hand printed t-shirts in the Grotto shop and Cavendish Bar.
Creative Transit 