The Library at Elsinore is the title of an installation work by Tom Phillips which will be the centrepiece of an exhibition at Shandy Hall opening on 21st September 2008. Also included in the exhibition will be treated skulls, works on the theme of books and texts and six new pages from Tom Phillips’s treated book A Humument. To learn more about these works go to the Online Resources links on the right. On this page you will be able to watch the making of new version of Page 62 from A Humument from start to finish. You can also see interpretations of Page 62 by Year 12 and 13 students from four different schools and these will also feature in the exhibition. Access earlier postings from the list on the right. You can also sign up for regular updates of new postings by subscribing to the RSS feed at the foot of the page.

Monday, 15 September 2008

New Humument Pages: page 12


As well as Page 62 Tom Phillips has completed five brand new versions of Pages 12, 47, 131 and 196 from A Humument to be shown at Shandy Hall. This one will be made into a print at Coriander Studios using epson scanning and then silkscreens. Tom Phillips works closely with Brad and Don Faine at Coriander who have been making prints for him for many years. You will be able to see the print at the exhibition.
In this image Tom Phillips refers to his We Are The People project. An enormous collection of postcards organised into categories which illustrate all walks of life in Britain in the early part of the 20th century. A sampling of We Are The People has been shown at Shandy Hall and was a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2004.
This interpretation of Page 12 seems also to hint at Phillips translation and illustrations to Dante's Inferno.
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