Awardee Events

Julia Phillips: Inside, Before They Speak

January 30 - April 19, 2026

The Curve. Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London EC2Y 8DS

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Julia Phillips, Mediator (detail), 2020, The Art Institute
of Chicago
© Julia Phillips, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

For her first institutional solo exhibition in the UK, the multidisciplinary artist presents new works which draw from her interest in the body, conception, and human connection.

Julia Phillips (2025 Awardee) uses sculpture and drawing to give shape to intangible concepts, from psychological states and biological processes to human bonds and attachments.

Her sculptures merge the anatomical and the industrial. Glazed ceramic fragments, pressed and moulded against her own body, are placed in conversation with fabricated metal elements, held together by hardware such as clasps, wingnuts and springs.

Julia Phillips

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Photo by the artist and Keisha Scarville. Julia Phillips is an artist living and working in Chicago across the media, sculpture, video, multimedia, and works on paper.

Photo by the artist and Keisha Scarville.