Philip Singleton applies his passion for making images which started when his father gave him a heavy Russian Zenit SLR film camera in the 1970’s and he set up a pop-up darkroom in his parents’ kitchen on winter nights.
Philip’s ongoing Pause Project is a personal but shared relationship with the city of Birmingham and its spaces and places. The images capture a reflective, meditative, intimate view of Birmingham’s buildings that are in a pause state, life has left them, they await death by demolition or new breath through new use. Often the marks and scars of use are recorded on walls and surfaces, but human life has departed.
Philip is continuously experimenting with the image and is creating a series of resin castings that contain multiple images that are then back-lit and the resulting images are enlarged to exhibition scale and printed onto aluminium panels.
His latest experimentation is overpainting a series of repetitive photographs, inspired by Gerhard Richter, who talks of looking at a painting and through to a photograph. Philip’s work deliberately exploits this interplay.
Philip’s work has been chosen for two of the biannual photographic shows at the RBSA and his limited edition prints are collected widely.
