Phil Collins

A Liverpool Commission, commissioned by the Liverpool Culture Company for Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008. Phil Collins’ art investigates our ambivalent relationship with the camera as both an instrument of attraction and manipulation, of revelation and shame. He often operates within forms of low-budget television and reportage-style documentary to address the discrepancy between reality and its representations.

In his projects, Collins creates unpredictable situations and his irreverent and intimate engagement with his subjects – a process he describes as ‘a cycle of no redemption’ – is as important for his practice as the final presentation in the gallery.

A Foundation has commissioned a new work by Collins, which will see the artist making a new film piece made in collaboration with the people of Liverpool (Collins was born and grew up in Runcorn). Collins has exhibited extensively all over the world and in 2006, Collins was nominated for the Turner Prize and has had solo exhibitions at Milton Keynes Gallery, Tanya Bonakdar, New York and was included in the British Art Show 6.