Phil Ashcroft was born in Farnham, Surrey and lives and works in London. He completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Illustration at St Martins and a BA Illustration at Harrow College of Art & Design.
Ashcroft was a Finalist in the John Moores 2014; the Celeste Art Prize 2007 and was selected for the Contemporary Art Society’s ARTfutures in 2005 and 2007. His work is held in The New Art Gallery Walsall’s Permanent Collection and in private collections worldwide.
Ashcroft’s recent painting and graphic work integrates gestural, emotive abstraction with flattened out ’80s style art deco and graffiti influences to present a vision of environmental, financial and political threat, a world of semi-surreal settings, cartoon-like motifs and the detritus of the modernist ideals of the past.
Solo exhibitions include Cave Paintings, Lewisham Arthouse, London 2015; Galácticos, Gamma Transport Division, Edinburgh 2013; Toxicity, Margaret Harvey Gallery (UH Galleries), St Albans 2006; Yeti In Hong Kong, EXIT, Hong Kong 2005 and Nitro Deluxe, Deptford X, London 2001.
Group exhibitions include Zinger!, CANAL, London 2014, Intervention Intervention, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton 2011; No Soul for Sale, Tate Modern, London 2010; Deptford X, London 2009; The Golden Record, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 2008.
Commissions include work for Aedas Architects, Amnesty International (UK), British Film Institute, muf architecture, The Royal Mail, Sony and Yahoo (UK). Solar System Parameters, an overview of works from 2005-13 with text by Paul Hobson, Director, Modern Art Oxford, was published by Gamma Proforma in 2013. For further information on Phil go to www.philashcroft.com
