Phil Dunn/ Other Worlds

Phil is a multidisciplinary artist who conceives and executes work incorporating performance, sound, photography, moving-image, computer programming, and writing. He marries digital and analogue technologies to construct or record his work which is presented as durational multi-media installations.

He started developing as an artist following 31 years working in IT where he undertook roles in programming, project management and business development across Europe and USA. Unleashed from the shackles of business, he rediscovered joy in digital technology and began applying his computing skills more creatively. A lifelong love of cooking contributes to his work acting as both a social device, cooking for colleagues, and a source of experimental materials and sounds.

In 2022 he completed an MA in Fine Art at Middlesex University where he combined autoethnographic research with an examination of temporality and biopolitics through participatory and solo actions and interventions. This culminated in a film Shallow Time, a record of actions he performed at the empty site where his grandparents' house had stood for less than 40 years. The film reflected on the impermanence and fragility of homes and infrastructure available to labouring people.

In 2023, he and his former course colleagues formed Fankle, a collective who collaborate to stage exhibitions, and to-date, he has exhibited with Fankle in three London shows. His first solo show was in Ayr, Scotland where his installations Song of a Sourdough and In Times of Ferment brought together two ever-evolving works that began during the Covid-19 pandemic. One a regenerative sculpture using bread dough, and another a sound installation that responds in real-time to changing conversations in news and social media.

He lives and works in London where current projects embed him deeply in the city’s past, weaving stories from historic objects or documents that resonate with the contemporary metropolis and the wider world.