Philippa Beale

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Philippa Beale
Born	(1946-09-11) September 11, 1946 Winchester, Hampshire U.K.
🏳️ Nationality	British
🏫 Education	Winchester School of Art, Hampshire, University of London, London, University of Reading, Reading, Goldsmiths College, London
💼 Occupation
Known for	Painting, Sculpture, Installation Graphic art
Movement	Conceptual Art, Arborealist
🌐 Website	http://philippabeale.com/

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Philippa Beale is a political artist and curator and a founding member of the Arborealists. for whom she created the name. Her work employs semiotic images, using real places or situations which represents similar venues or events. She became known in the late 1970s and 1980s for her iconic works about advertising. Several of her works were destroyed but ‘Children in Peril When Love Dies’ (1985) is recorded on the cover of Blue Bird and Other Stories, 2 ‘What you Pick up First is Most’ Important 1984 was purchased by ACGB for Southampton City Art Gallery and voted in aBBC interview as the most liked by gallery staff. She was the second woman President of The London Group.

Early life and education

Born in 1946 in Winchester, Beale grew up in an early 18th Century theatre, the premises of her father’s workshop. Joseph Vaux Beale was a master gunmaker who worked for Manton & Co. in Kolkata, India before settling in Winchester, where he held Royal Letters Patent for the Trusty Servant cartridge. There is a report that from about 1923 to 1930 Joseph Beale worked for the firm, but he does not appear to have been recorded. He was previously with Cogswell & Harrison as a stocker, and after leaving India joined Hammond Brothers of Winchester. In 1933 the firm’s shop was still at 13 Old Courthouse Street but the office was at 15-1 Old Courthouse Street. The workshops and storerooms were still at 1 Mangoe Lane. J V Beale was employed as an extra assistant.

As part of a longstanding family tradition, Beale went to school in Brussels but at sixteen from 1962-1964 she attended Winchester School of Art, where she met her first husband, the artist, David Troostwyk. She continued to study psychology and philosophy at the University of London and University of Reading respectively and Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. She continued her personal professional development resulting in her higher research degrees in CGI as well as supervising research degrees for professionals in art and design.

Career

Beale’s career started in summer 1971 with a review of UK art in Art Spectrum at Alexander Palace reviewed in Time Out In 1972 she had a 3-dimensional one-person exhibition The Highgate Series at Camden Art Centre. Since then she has shown a clear progression from 3-dimensional and spatial works to predominately 2-dimensional lens-based images incorporating text. In 1973 she had a joint show with Judith Shackleton at the Park Square Gallery Leeds, reviewed in the Guardian and by John Jones for Arts Review. In 1977 she had a show 'Doors' again at Camden Art Centre. Also that year her work started to incorporate trees resulting in 'Collected from There', a series of sculptures and photographs about an orchard at the Angela Flowers Gallery, then in Soho, London. then in Soho. This ran concurrently with ‘Collected from Here’ at the Acme Gallery In 1978 hers was one of three one-person exhibitions, Newton’s Wonder composed of thousands of real apples as an installation, at Richard de Marco Gallery , Edinburgh. 1980, she exhibited in Women’s Images of Men at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Arnolfini in Bristol and the Third Eye, Glasgow. 1981 she travelled to Poznan in Poland to install ‘His Ears are Small and Neat’, ‘His Chest is Covered With Soft Brown Hair’, two multi-artworks shown at Akulmulatory Galeria, Poland. One of these was later exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow.

1982 she again exhibited at Angela Flowers Gallery now in Tottenham Mews, London with ‘Baby Love’ reviewed by Waldemar Januszczak, then arts correspondent for the Guardian. 20 a conference for gay socialist men and women, 1977; papers relating … publish the images in a book called ‘Indecent Acts’ in the 1980s but was unable to … ICA, 1980. – BEALE, Philippa: Private view invitation to. ‘Baby Love and other Works’ . 1984 she became the first and only artist-in-residence at Southampton City Art Gallery which culminated in the exhibition Blue Bird, a study of the childhoods of artists. 1985 her Billboard in the Old Kent Road, London, Children in Peril, When Love Dies stopped traffic. It was later included in Graphic Agitations by Liz McQuiston, Phaidon page 18 22. She continued into the 1990s,updating her billboards by producing video billboards and large installation formats via the GMI Video Screen in London’s Leicester Square with 11 mins on Leicester Square (2000) and Art School(2001) 1996 saw her film ‘From Wilson to Callaghan, Conceptual Art Practice from 1964-1978’ screened at the ICA included interviews by Ian Breakwell and Jeff Nuttall and resulted in sales including Tate Britain. The accompanying Chronology for From Wilson to Callaghan, Conceptual Art Practice from 1964 – 1978 is in the Tate Library.

2007 saw the retrospective ‘Reviewing thirty years of Conceptual Art Practice in ‘Blue Bird and Other Stories’ at the LCC galleries and in 2009 her desire to keep pace with the emerging technologies culminated with ‘The Stations of the Cross', a permanent installation at the Church of the Virgin near the university town of Poitiers in south west France. The head of Christ and the main actors of the Passion were carved in white plaster. On these carved figures, slides of the fourteen scenes were projected, and finally the image was manipulated by computer to change the colors. The work very well received by the inhabitants and blessed in 2010 by Monsignor Pascal Wintzer, then Auxiliary Bishop of Poitiers. The paintings show the human life of every day and the divine redemption that brings life back to humanity.

From 2009 she began painting trees as part of her new polemic concerning the environment, resulting in an invitation to exhibit in 2013 in 'Under the Greenwood, Picturing the British Tree', at St Barbe Museum in the New Forest. Following this, Tim Craven, curator at Southampton City Art Gallery invited well known British painters to establish a new movement for artists for whom trees were a major theme in their work. The name ‘The Arborealists’ The Arborealists, was invented by Beale enabling the movement to become an international ecological art movement. The concept of the Arborealists was to avoid historical concepts through renewing the contemporary language of painting that owed everything to observation. Since its inception the Arborealists have held twenty exhibitions in major museums and art galleries, five of which Beale has curated. 2020 saw Beale’s most recent one person event ‘Imaging Trees’ a personal view of trees during lockdown at the Bermondsey Project Space.

Children in Peril, When Love Dies, Old Kent Road Billboard, 1984

Rough and Smooth

Personal life

Currently Beale lives and works in France and the UK, with her second husband, the writer and artist, Christopher Plato. She has one son, the performer and lyricist PRofit, and no pets.

Selected Exhibitions

• 2021 Being With Trees, Curator, Gustavo Bacarisis Gallery Gibraltar
• 2021 Being With Trees, Curator, Bermondsey Project Space, London
• 2020 The Arborealists, The Castle Museum, Taunton, South West Heritage Centre
• 2019 ‘Evolving the Forest', Dartington Hall, Devon, UK
• 2019 'The Art Of Trees: The Arborealists', Musee de St Croix Loudun, France
• 2017 ‘The Art of the Tree’, Dortoir des Moines, Musee de St Benoit, Poitiers, France
• 2017 'The Art of the Tree', Bermondsey Project Space, UK
• 2013 ‘Under the Greenwood, Picturing the British Tree’, St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Southampton Museum Service, Lymington
• 2009 Stations of the Cross' Church of the Virgin, Vaux en Couhe, France
• 2007 ‘Blue Bird and Other Stories, 30 years of Conceptual Art Practice’ by Philippa Beale, collaborating with Jane Humphrey, Graham Diprose, Christopher Plato, London College of Communication Galleries, London
• 2002 ‘Art and the Spirit, The Stations of the Cross,’ Site Specific Installation, St Pancras Church, London
• 2000 ‘Real Bodies Virtual City’, Curator with James Swinson, Outside Edge Artists Collective. First Group show, St. Peters Heritage Centre, London
• 1999 ‘From Wilson to Callaghan’, Video Viewing, paper given at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London
• 1995 The London Group, The Curve, Barbican Arts Centre, Curator
• 1984 ‘Blue Bird’, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
• 1984 ‘Artists for Bandaid at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
• 1976 'Sculpture and Sculpture Drawings', Annely Juda Fine Art, London
• 1975 '20th Century Artists' Annely Juda Fine Art, exhibition 6 with Mark Rothko, Alan Green, Christo, Michael Kenny, Anastas Bradzdys
• 1972 'The Highgate Series', The Nostalgia Industry, Camden Arts Centre, London (First one person exhibition).

Stations of the Cross Main View, 2010

Bibliography

• 2021 Being With Trees Beale P ISBN 978-0-9555510-4-8 Search this book on .
• 2020 Being With Trees ISBN 978-0-9555510-3-1 Search this book on .
• 2020 In Conversation by Creative Coverage: Trees are Philippa Beale’s passion.

https://anchor.fm/creative-coverage/episodes/Trees-are-Philippa-Beales-passion-eme5gi http://www.creativecoverage.co.uk/artists-page/item/940-philippa-beale

• 2019 Philippa Beale writes about trees…by art.earth | Jul 22, 2019 | Featured, News, Our Events, our Exhibitions Dartington Hall
• 2018 Drawn to London - Within the Shadow of the Tower 2018 Plato-Beale Productions ISBN 978-0-9555510-7-9 Search this book on ..)
• 2017 Cultivation of Trees and Western Culture The Arborealists ISBN978-1-908326-86-7
• 2017 The Arborealists -The Art Of Trees 2017 (Plato Beale Productions (in French and English) ISBN 978-0-9555510-5-5 Search this book on .);
• 2016 The Art of the Tree (Sansom & Co 2016 ISBN 978-1-908326-86-7 Search this book on .), including the essay by Dr Angela Summerfield ‘Why do Artists Paint Trees?’
• 2013 Under the Greenwood, Picturing the British Tree (Sansom & Company ISBN 0000002054 Search this book on .)
• 2013 The Arborealists, Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree, 2013, Sansom & Company ISBN 0000002054 Search this book on .
• 2015 The State of Art Site Specific and Installation Part 2 @ Barehill Publishing ISBN 978-1-909825-08-6 Search this book on .
• 2015 From Wilson to Callaghan, Conceptual Art Practice 1964 to1979 The Chronology recounting the history of artists network working in the UK during the 20th Century From Wilson to Callaghan Conceptual Art Practice from 1964 -1978, The Chronology. published by Central Saint Martins ISBN 978-0-9555510-2-4 Search this book on .
• 2014 The State of Art Landscape and Portrait by Andy Laffan | Oct 1, 2014 ISBN-13: 978-1909825086
• 2013 Landscape and Portrait Barehill Publishing ISBN-10: 1909825085 1. ISBN-13: 978-1909825086
• 2013 Under the Greenwood, Picturing the British Tree by Anne Anderson, Sansom & Company. ISBN 9781908326300 Search this book on ..
• 2012 Site Specific and Installation 1 Barehill Publishing ISBN 9781909825055 Search this book on .
• 2007 Blue Bird and Other Stories ISBN 978-0-9555510-0-0 Search this book on .
• 2003 Wilson to Callaghan - New Curatorial Strategies, @ Outside Edge eMagazine
• 2003 Inside Out, Forward to London Group 90 Years supporting the Visual Arts
• 2003 Strike – Review Art Monthly 261, November ISBN 01426702
• 2000 Public Launch Outside Edge Virtual Magazine, Brunswick House, London Outside Edge Virtual Magazine No 1 – Art on the Margins, editor published by Wellhung Art Company – www.wellhungart.co.uk

James Swinson (2001) Political artist, Third Text, 15:57, 53-60, DOI: 10.1080/09528820108576942 Political Artist, Oxymoron or Tautology, Third Text 57 Winter, 200102002 ISBN 0-952-8822

• 1994 'Women’s Images of Men', reprint from 1985, ed Kent S., Morreau J., essay, Images of Men Rozsika Parker (reprinted from Spare Rib No 99, October 1980) p. 54 Writers and Readers Publishing Co-operative Society Ltd,
• 1993 'Graphic Agitations', McQuiston L., Phaidon ISBN 071428785, page 18
• 1993 'Rough Being Gentle', photo-print, 1980 In: The Sexual Imagination from Acker to Zola, ed. Gilbert H., Jonathan Cape, Worldwide, ISBN 0-224-03535-5 Search this book on ., p. 25
• 1993 Graphic Agitations, McQuiston L., Phaidon, ISBN 0-714B-2878-5, p. 182
• 1980 Women’s Images of Men, ICA publication, article published ISBN 0905263073 Search this book on .

Catalogues in the Tate Library The Highgate Series by Philippa Beale 1972 Beale, Philippa • Exhibition of sculpture Beale, Philippa • SPACE from the Quadrangle : (six artists from Charlton House Quadrangle) Woodlands Art Gallery (London) • Space Studios, 8 Berry Street, London EC1 : Pauline Adams, Trisha Austin, Edward Baure, Philippa Beale, Savomir Blatton, Michael Buxton, Brian Catling, Anne Cloudsley, Susan Haire, Susan Hiller, John Kearne, Walter Lam, Barry J. Martin, William Mills, C Morey de Morand, Alison Neville, H-Dieter Pietsch, Paula Rego, Michael Roberts, Mark Rushton, James Andrew Ryder, Coleman Sunders, Kevin Sinnott, Rhonda Whitehead, Victor Willing Space Studios (London) • Philippa Beale : Baby love! and other work Beale, Philippa • Goldsmiths’ MA Fine Art Show 1987 • Artist of the day : 27 June-8 July • Wilson to Callaghan : conceptual art practice 1964-78 Beale, Philippa • The London Group : visual arts from 1913 : celebrating 90 years commitment to the visual arts Humphrey, Jane • From Wilson to Callaghan : conceptual art practice 1964 to 1979 : a chronology recounting the history of artists network working in the UK during the 20th century Beale, Philippa

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