Phillip Gurrey
Responding to the Beeston Series

Preview
Saturday 24th March | 7:30pm

Closing Event
Saturday 7th April | 7:30pm

Keeping The Aspidistra Flying
  • Philip Gurrey is a British – born painter, currently living and working between Glasgow and Copenhagen. Since winning the prestigious ‘Pulse Prize’ at the 2008 Pulse Art Fair in New York and rising to the attention of the international art world, he has gone on to complete his M.Litt in Fine Art Painting at the Glasgow School Of Art


in 2008 Philip Gurrey produced a series of portraits of the people of Beeston, Leeds. With no political agenda his purpose was to portray a less biased reality than was being portrayed on the media at the time in the national media. In March 2012 Gurrey will begin a two-week residency at BasementArtsProject, Leeds’ smallest arts venue, based in Beeston.