Phillip King

born 1934

Phillip King, ‘Tra-La-La’ 1963
Tra-La-La 1963
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Biography

Phillip King PRA (born 1 May 1934) is a British sculptor. He is one of Anthony Caro's best known students, even though the two artists are near contemporaries. Their education followed similar trajectories and they both worked as assistants to Henry Moore. Following the "New Generation" show at the Whitechapel Gallery, both Caro and King were included in the seminal 1966 exhibit, "Primary Structures" at the Jewish Museum in New York representing the British influence on the "New Art". In 2011, his work was represented in the Royal Academy exhibition on Modern British Sculpture which explored British sculpture of the twentieth century.

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New generation sculpture

Artworks

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Phillip King, ‘Tra-La-La’ 1963

Phillip King Tra-La-La

1963
Phillip King, ‘And the Birds Began to Sing’ 1964

Phillip King And the Birds Began to Sing

1964
Phillip King, ‘Genghis Khan’ 1963

Phillip King Genghis Khan

1963
Phillip King, ‘Within’ 1978–9

Phillip King Within

1978–9
Phillip King, ‘Dunstable Reel’ 1970

Phillip King Dunstable Reel

1970
Phillip King, ‘Nile’ 1967

Phillip King Nile

1967
Phillip King, ‘Call’ 1967

Phillip King Call

1967
Phillip King, ‘Green Streamer’ 1970

Phillip King Green Streamer

1970
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Film and audio

Phillip King: Studio Visit

Watch the artist in his studio as he works on a new sculpture and get an insight into his ideas ...

Features
Tate Etc

Details, Details: Phillip King's Within 1978–9

Ken Simons

The sweat and toil of assembling a complex sculpture

Sir Anthony Caro, ‘Early One Morning’ 1962
Art Term

New generation sculpture

New generation sculpture were a group of young British sculptors working in the 1960s, who experimented with materials, forms and ...

Phillip King, ‘Tra-La-La’ 1963
Tate Etc

Phillip King's Tra-La-La 1963: Tate Britain Rehang

William Tucker

Tate Etc. invited a selection of contemporary artists featured in the new rehang of British art at Tate Britain to ...

Keith Farquhar John Lewis Partnership 2000
Tate Papers

Awkward Relations

Neil Mulholland

This paper focuses on practices that captured critical and curatorial attention in Scotland and England at the turn of this ...

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