Phil Day 'Drawings Big and Small'

Exhibition dates: September 20th – October 3rd 2022

Opening Night: September 29th. 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Phil Day invited Cassandra Atherton & Paul Hetherington to edit an international collection of contemporary prose poems. Upon completion the editors invited Phil to make some drawings for the final book. Instead, he made a drawing for every poem – resulting in over 100 drawings.

Phil Day is a Melbourne based artist who began practicing as an illustrator and caricaturist for the Canberra Times in 1994. After graduating from the Australian National University in 1995, he commenced working as a printer, binder and designer of artist’s books in the Edition + Artist’s Book Studio, Australian National University. After his inclusion in the 2000 Australian Drawing Biennale, Canberra, Day has collaborated with authors in the making of books. To date, Day has created over 70 books. His work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia and the National Library of Australia and has been published in the New Yorker Magazine.

Art work details: Players Handbook, Advanced D&D (pp. 22-23), 2022. Phil Day, Pencil on paper, 965 x 650 mm.