Keziah Philipps

2020 - Building Arts Programme
East Lothian

Keziah is a contemporary artist working with multiple craft disciplines. She graduated Kingston School of Art in 2017 with a first class honours in Illustration Animation, with a commendation for expanded animation practice in printmaking. She won a travel bursary to study printmaking in Grand Valley State University, USA, and was a runner up for the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers Graduate Prize in 2017. 

Over the last four years she has complemented her independent practice by working as a technician in galleries and studios, including Edinburgh Printmakers. 

In 2019, Keziah spent two weeks as an Artist in Residence at Dumfries House with the Royal Drawing School, a period during which she mapped the estate’s grounds and structures in copper etching. She was selected as one of 6 contemporary artists to create a map and animation of the Norfolk Broads for the Woven Waters project.

Keziah took part in the 2020 Building Arts Programme, run in collaboration with the Prince’s Foundation.

My work combines traditional printmaking techniques and animation technologies and resembles a form of oblique personal biography. The works form a kind of subjective cartography – drawing based, but of time and motion as well as place. Perspectives change; viewers might experience moments or impressions, drawn from multiple viewpoints, at once cartographical, diagrammatic and expressive.

I crystallise moments in the form of drawing, aiming to evoke remembered, fleeting perceptions; depicting specific, fragile moments and impressions – too intangible to be photographed – that would otherwise be irretrievably lost.

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