Artwork

Beatrice and Dante in Purgatory

The work 'Beatrice and Dante in Purgatory' references Dali's interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy but is painted in Phillips' contemporary expressionist style. The narrative depicts Dante's meeting with his idealised...

Collision Course

2024 2D Surrealist Art & Poetry Prize, People's Choice Winner 'Collision Course'. When industry and environment inevitably collide. The impacts can be irreversible on ecological interdependence. The thylacine, now extinct,...

It's a Matter of Time

2024 2D Surrealist Art & Poetry Prize, Winner I was inspired by Dali and Magritte in my early college years, and am drawn to putting a twist in my artwork,...

Launceston

2024 2D Surrealist Art & Poetry Prize, Poetry Winner The poem 'Launceston' exposes the dark underbelly of the city, disrupting the narrative of progress and prosperity, unmasking the contradictions which...

Purgatory, Canto 6 – Deaths by Violence (Copper...

“We all, of old, were slain by violence, and went on sinning up to our last hour” Check out the tin room for the original watercolour paintings.

Inferno (Hell), Canto 4 – Limbo (Copper Plates)

“but all the while were passing through the wood, the wood, I mean, of spirits crowded thick” Check out the tin room for the original watercolour paintings.