Lost And Gone – but not for ever?
A new exhibition of work by Phil Barton will be opening at The Whitaker, Rawtenstall from 29th September. The Whitaker is home to a taxidermy collection gathered locally and around the world. Many of the items are representative of species now extinct in the Rossendale Valley. A common feature is that their absence is a […]
Days of Action to Remember Nature
A homage to Gustav Metzger on the second and fourth anniversary of his call to artists to Remember Nature – an ever more urgent task
Concrete Poetry Series
A series of works inspired by my visit to The Estorick Collection in March and an exhibition of concrete poetry by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dom Sylvester Houédard and others – Breaking Lines. Made during April, May and early June 2025 in order to both enable a creative practice whilst incapacitated by a hip replacement recovery […]
Window on Lindow – A living Art Trail on a Living Bog
This project had its origins in lockdown in 2020 and was realised between 2022 and 2025 The Lindow Moss area includes a former raised bog which has been severely reduced and damaged from a combination of centuries of peat cutting, the spread of agriculture, development, alterations to drainage, pollution and waste tipping. The wider area […]
The Waters Are Coming…to Granary Square
Phil will also be showing two works related to the Climate Crisis and consequent rise in sea levels at The Greenhouse in the Letherby Gallery; The Second Elizabethan Age – all that glistens is not gold Phil Barton (2023): What the work is about: Queen Elizabeth ll came to the throne in 1953, the year […]
Future Seeds – Kew National Tree Seed Project
Watch my film Future Seeds: an adventure with wind, trees and people now. (Running time 21 minutes – join for as long as you like!) and my more recent film Superseeded (Running time 6 minutes 30 seconds). Residency with Kew’s UK National Tree Seed Project Between August and December 2019 I worked on a residency […]
Picture of Health: A Deep Connection
A Picture of Health As part of A Picture of Health, a joint project between the Medical Research Council’s London Institute of Medical Science and MA Art & Science at Central Saint Martins, Phil Barton has been working with a group of scientists to develop an artwork which will A Picture of Health depends on […]
Rusholme Isolation
A corona virus lockdown project broadcast on Instagram March – May 2020
Maw Macaws, No More Saws
The South American rainforests are burning. The macaw is an indicator species for the health of a forest. Visitors actively engage and create a new work…
The Oxford Road Murders
Between 2015 and 2017 some 120+ mature trees were cut down along Manchester’s Oxford Road Corridor.