Phil Coy

Education
1998-2000 The Slade, University College London, MA Fine Art
1994-1995 L’école des beaux arts, Nantes, France, Post Diplome
1990-1993 John Moores University, Myrtle Street, Liverpool, BA Hons Fine Art Degree (Sculpture)
1989-1990 Norfolk Institute of Art and Design, Norwich, Norfolk, Foundation Diploma

Awards, Commissions and Residencies
2002 Visual Artists Grant London Arts
2001 First Base Studio Award ACAVA
2000 Duveen Travel Scholarship, Photo Journal of Goethe’s path from Sicily to Weimar, Germany
1998 New Work and Commissions Award, West Midlands Arts.
Equipment and Production Bursary, 6 month Vivid, Birmingham Centre for Media Arts.
Small Adventures, Residential workshop, 1 week Forced Entertainment.
1997 Residency, commission and Workshops. 6 week. Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.
ULAPPA 97 Turku, Finland.
Live Art Travel and Research Award, Finland - Estonia. 1 month Arts Council of England.
1995 Residency, L’Usine LU. 3 month F. R. A.C., Nantes
1994 Margaret Whethered Bequest; Travel Bursary. 1 year. Awarded by North West Arts

Portable Border

Sixty potted Chrysanthemum are moved daisy-chain fashion to define a temporal border across Darmstadt. Following this action the flowers are given away to the people of Darmstadt with a poster campaign proclaming »Freie Blumen« and specificing where and when they can be taken.

»Portable Border« was first devised for the town of Lahti, Finland in 2000. Almost immediately there was a feeling that the border could continue, in each instance being adapted to the nature of its surroundings. The subsequent photographs of the flowers progress infer their unbroken passage across the town. The position of the flowers and therefore the performance
of the work defines the composition of the photographs that
document it.

Installation im Garten Fischer

Rodinghweg 3

Vogelfrei wird gefördert von Darmstadt-Arheiligens Gartenparadies