Peter Phillips

Phillips was a student at the Royal College of Art with David Hockney and Allen Jones. He began to use airbrush in his paintings to imitate the immaculate tone-work of commercial illustrations. With the help of Chris Prater at the Kelpra Press he experimented with screen-printing which proved to be the ideal medium for his work.

Works in the Tate collection

Peter Phillips is one of the preeminent Pop Artists of our time. Undeniably one of the inventors of British Pop Art, Phillips’ work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world along side the work of his American counterparts Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist…