Susan Phillips (b.1978) is a British sculptor. She creates intimate scale architecture from raw fired clay, designed for aesthetic and psychological purpose.Susan Phillips’works have an intriguing capacity of employing simple forms to examine the very grounds of perception and evoke a sense of potential and possibility.In her investigations, she emphasizes reinvention and change, rather than fixed, concrete results.

Hailing from her studio in rural North Herefordshire on the border of England and Wales, Philips’s art has gained international attention for its pared-back aesthetic and unique ability to trick the eye.Informed by an interest in architecture and minimalism,her sculptural work employs planar form and geometric abstraction as a visual language to explore compositional relationships.

Susan Phillips choose to work with raw fired porcelain for its authenticity and ability to record process and change.This memory provides accountability and necessitates a respect for material limitations.Seeking harmony among opposites,Susan Phillips carefully adjusted the different elements, her sculptures investigate the interplay between independence and interdependence, fragment and whole, and open versus closed.Intriguing and dynamic, they highlight themes of reinvention and change.