Phil Coy

Born in Gloucester, England, he grew up in the Forest of Dean, Birmingham and Norfolk. He studied Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University (1993), L' écoles des beaux arts à Nantes{{Cite book|last=Reynaud, Patrick|first=and Coignet, Jean-Gabriel|title=Post Diplôme 1994-1995 Nantes|publisher=Galerie des Beaux-Arts|year=2005|location=Centre Pompidou, Bibliothèque Kandinsky|pages=65}} (1995) and Slade School of Fine Art (2000).{{Cite web|date=10 June 2018|title=Phil Coy, Substance [a whole history of hollows and reliefs] - South London Gallery|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/news/2018/06/coy-substance-slg|website=Slade, University College London}}

His early internet sourced video "Eleven Seconds of Paradise"{{cite web |title=eleven seconds of paradise |url=http://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_date/2010/eleven_seconds_of_paradise_2010 |website=Animate Projects |access-date=12 July 2013}} (2000) was made prior to the launch of Google images using AltaVista and included in the Hayward Gallery touring exhibition Incommunicado{{cite news |title=Incommunicado |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2004/jun/07/art |website=Guardian |date=7 June 2004 |access-date=7 June 2004 |last1=Hickling |first1=Alfred }}{{cite web |title=Incommunicado |url=https://homemcr.org/exhibition/incommunicado/ |website=Home |access-date=13 July 2017}}{{cite web |title=Incommunicado - at the Sainsbury Centre |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/culture/incommunicado.shtml |website=BBC Norfolk |access-date=16 October 2003}}(2003-4) and Dan Graham's Waterloo Sunset Pavilion, Hayward Gallery{{cite web|title=Waterloo Sunset Pavillion|url=https://www.haywardgallery.org.uk/sunset.html|access-date=20 August 2011|website=Hayward Gallery}} (2002-2003). Incommunicado's curator Margot Heller described Eleven seconds of paradise as

"a succinct comment on the negative impact of communication technologies, and as such its efficacy and relevance have increased in the short space of time since it was made."{{Cite book|last=Heller|first=Margot|title=Incommunicado|publisher=Hayward Gallery|year=2003|isbn=1853322326|location=British Library|pages=5}}

Coy used Earth observation data from satellites as source material in 2000 prior to the launch of Google Earth (2004) when satellite navigation became the ubiquitous cultural phenomenon it is today. His 'pixel replacements' such as A walk in the park (2000),{{cite web |last1=Collins |first1=Susan |title=Framing the digital: Materialising New Media |url=https://www.slideshare.net/institutosergiomotta/framing-the-digital-materialising-new-mediasusan-collins-2518937 |website=instituto sergio motta |access-date=17 November 2007}}{{cite web |title=Great piece of Turf |url=http://www.daniellearnaud.com/DA2005/installation_views8.htm |website=Danielle Arnaud |access-date=20 July 2003}} Trinidad Triptych [Red square]{{cite web |title=Triangle Network Projects Phil Coy 2004 CCA, Port of Spain, Trinidad |url=https://www.trianglenetwork.org/triangle-network/projects/phil-coy |website=Triangle Network |access-date=3 August 2006}} (2004) and Black spot{{cite web |title=Real Estate Projects |url=https://welcomebb.sophiehope.org.uk/projects/realestateprojects.html |website=B+B |access-date=11 July 2008}}{{cite web |last1=Sullivan |first1=Laura L |title=Get Real! Art, Regeneration, and Resistance |url=https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/get-real-art-regeneration-and-resistance |website=Mute |date=10 April 2005 |access-date=4 October 2005}} (2005), reproduced pixels from satellite images to scale, and installed and photographed them in the place they represented on the earth. The works combined techniques of digital imaging, minimalism and land art to produce a form of augmented reality. In 2016 Coy became the second Leverhulme artist-in-residence{{Cite web|date=7 September 2017|title=Phil Coy – Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Space Residency|url=https://invisibledust.com/projects/phil-coy-rutherford-appleton-laboratory-space-residency|website=Invisible Dust}} at the Rutherford Appleton Space Laboratory following Elizabeth Price. He researched the processes and materials behind digital satellite imaging to produce the fulldome film and virtual reality installation Substance{{cite web|title=A whole history of hollows and reliefs|url=http://culture.theodi.org/substance-a-whole-history-of-hollows-and-reliefs/|access-date=4 June 2020|website=The Open Data Institute|date=6 April 2020 }}{{Cite web|last=The Open Data Institute|date=12 November 2020|title=Phil Coy|url=https://culture.theodi.org/phil-coy/}} toured to FACT Liverpool{{cite web|title=The New Observatory|url=https://www.fact.co.uk/artwork/substance-a-whole-history-of-hollows-and-reliefs|access-date=28 September 2017|website=FACT Liverpool}} (2017), The Royal Observatory Planetarium,{{cite web|title=Spectral Power|url=https://www.space-policy.com/27-june-2018-spectral-power-screening-royal-observatory-london/|access-date=14 June 2018|website=Space Policy|date=14 June 2018 |publisher=Dr Jill Stuart}} South London Gallery[https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/phil-coy-substance-a-whole-history-of-hollows-and-reliefs/ Phil Coy: substance [a whole history of hollows and reliefs] (2018), York Art Gallery.{{cite web|title=Strata Rocks Dust Stars|url=https://yorkmediale.com/events/phil-coy-substance-a-whole-history-of-hollows-and-reliefs/|access-date=27 September 2018|website=York Mediale}}{{cite web|title=Strata Rocks Dust Stars|url=https://www.yorkartgallery.org.uk/exhibition/strata-rock-dust-stars/|access-date=29 September 2018|website=York Art Gallery}}

The newsreader and reporter Julia Somerville starred in his film Façade (2010),{{cite news |title=Whitstable Biennale: a new pearl among the art-world oysters |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/18/whitstable-biennale-new-art?CMP=twt_gu |newspaper=The Guardian | date=18 June 2010 |publisher=Guardian |access-date=18 June 2010 | last1=Morgan | first1=Eleanor }}{{Cite web |title=Façade, Phil Coy |url=https://filmlondon.org.uk/flamin-productions-round-1 |website=Film London}}{{Cite web|date=February 14, 2011|title=Artprojx Cinema in association with Armory Show New York|url=http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/news/2011/february/artprojx_cinema|website=Film London}} which casts London's glass architecture as a transparent subject rendered slowly opaque by the language it engenders.{{Cite web|date=12 May 2010|title=Phil Coy, Façade|url=https://whitstablebiennale.com/project/facade/|website=Whitstable Biennale}} Façade (2010) and Wordland (2008){{cite web |title=Wordland |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8d5d7ada |website=British Film Institute |access-date=13 November 2020}}{{dead link|date=October 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} are held in the BFI Artists Moving Image Collection.

He was the inaugural artist in residence at Brunel University (2018–19){{cite web|title=The art of self-surveillance – New Artist-in-Residence unveils debut work|url=https://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/The-art-of-self-surveillance-New-artist-in-residence-unveils-debut-work|access-date=6 February 2019|website=Brunel University}} where he devised the imprint youarehere!{{cite web|title=Phil Coy: Artist-in-residence public programme|url=http://artlicks.com/events/7392/phil-coy-artist-in-residence|access-date=1 December 2019|publisher=Artlicks}} with author and academic Will Self. The project is explored in the essay amidst the susurration of motorways{{Cite web|last=Grayson|first=Richard|date=3 November 2019|title=amidst the susurration of motorways|url=https://youarehere.work/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019_Richard_Grayson_EssayPoster_web.pdf}} by artist/writer/curator Richard Grayson.

• Grit (2024)
• Islands (2023)
• Substance (2018)
• Avoiding Green (2017)
• Who goes there? (2016)
• as far as i know [afaik] (2015)
• Sons of unless and children of almost (2014)
• Krapp's Shultz (2012)
• Façade (2010)
• Wordland (2008)
• Omega (2004)
• Eleven Seconds of Paradise (2000)(2010)(2020)
• Sound Mirror (1999)
• Notes from the waterfall (1999)

Swete Brethe (2021){{Cite web |last= |first= |date=24 November 2021 |title=Swete Brethe |url=https://www.mattsgallery.org/exhibitions/swete-breath |website=Matt's Gallery}} commissioned by Matt's Gallery, temporary installation adjacent to Embassy of the United States of America in London, featuring composition by Byron Wallen.

Stereo Pair (2021){{Cite web |date=12 April 2021 |title=Stereo Pair |url=https://youarehere.work/works/stereopair/ |website=youarehere}}{{Cite news |date=27 September 2022 |title=Clockwork Orange set 'switched on' as Brutalist sound installation |work=Brunel University News |url=https://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/Clockwork-Orange-set-%27switched-on%27-as-Brutalist-sound-installation}} commissioned by Brunel University London, permanent site-sensitive sound installation, John Crank Gardens in Brunel University.

Your right to continued existence (2016){{Cite web|last=Anna Hart|first=Tilly Fowler &|date=8 September 2016|title=kingscrossfieldmap|url=http://www.kingscrossfieldmap.org/|website=AIR Kings Cross Field Map}}{{Cite web|date=13 November 2020|title=your right to continued existence|url=https://callycolourchart.info/about/|website=your right to continued existence}} Islington North, commissioned by TFL and Islington Council, installed under the 'Cally Bridge' on the Caledonian Road, London, adjacent to the London Overground, Caledonian Road & Barnsbury railway station.

Razzle Dazzle Boogie Woogie (2013){{Cite web|date=12 June 2013|title=Public art in Lewisham|url=https://lewisham.gov.uk/inmyarea/arts/your-local-arts/visual-art/galleries/public-art/lewisham-public-art|website=Lewisham Council}}{{Cite web|date=12 November 2020|title=Razzle Dazzle Boogie Woogie|url=https://futurecity.co.uk/portfolio/razzle-dazzle/|website=Futurecity}} Permanent public realm commission installed opposite Lewisham station, visible from mainline railway between Kent, East Sussex and London Bridge. A curved architectural facade of backlit coloured glass panels create a digital camouflage over the facade of Lewisham's Glass Mill leisure Centre. At night the kinetic work is animated by the sounds of Lewisham.

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• [https://philcoy.info/ official website]
• [https://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/phil-coy Phil Coy] at Matt's Gallery
• [http://film-directory.britishcouncil.org/phil-coy Phil Coy] at British Council
• [https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/results Phil Coy] at [https://www.bfi.org.uk/ BFI]
• [http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/showcase/assets/showcase_items/facade Phil Coy] at Film London
• [https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/phil-coy-substance-a-whole-history-of-hollows-and-reliefs/ Phil Coy] at South London Gallery

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