Phil Toy
Study
Creative Writing - Poetry, Literary Fiction, novel, short story; Installation Art, Painting, Sculpture, Video, Photo-Montage
Upcoming - Featured Artist Interview, The Lux Review, edition 12, April 2025
MA Creative Writing completed (Distinction) 2023 - Birkbeck College, University of London
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See previous interview & article published at:
https://issuu.com/artpress/docs/biennial.ed.i/28
Study for Devil's Bond Market, 2025
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I am currently working on the interplay between my writing of Poetic
Fiction and my Visual Art. The manuscript of my debut novel, The Sublime Scream of Cass-Leanne Mendez is finished, now in agent query process.
'Toy is interested in systems of knowledge and belief. His practice pivots on the tension between the authority of finite, packaged, received information and the power of intuition, creativity and enigma'. (Kay Campbell in catalogue, 'State of the Art').
'The cabinet of curiosities was a peculiar and personal ordering of objects from science and the arts that was overwhelmed by the advent of that Enlightenment machine, the Museum. The connection back to mysticism and ritual is a persistent and visible element in Toy's work in which he focuses on the presence of irrational, conflicting beliefs in the context of our rational, scientific thought.
(Piers Masterson, 'State of the Art').
Categories
give definition
and or
der....
which may not
be true...
I am currently working on the interplay between my writing of Poetic
Fiction and my Visual Art. The manuscript of my debut novel, The Sublime Scream of Cass-Leanne Mendez is finished, now in agent query process.
'Toy is interested in systems of knowledge and belief. His practice pivots on the tension between the authority of finite, packaged, received information and the power of intuition, creativity and enigma'. (Kay Campbell in catalogue, 'State of the Art').
'The cabinet of curiosities was a peculiar and personal ordering of objects from science and the arts that was overwhelmed by the advent of that Enlightenment machine, the Museum. The connection back to mysticism and ritual is a persistent and visible element in Toy's work in which he focuses on the presence of irrational, conflicting beliefs in the context of our rational, scientific thought.
(Piers Masterson, 'State of the Art').
Poetry reading, open mic, Under the Red Guitar, Bristol, Dec.2024
Public Reading of opening chapter of The Sublime Scream of Cass-Leanne Mendez
Novel Nights, Folk House Bristol, Sept. 2022
Interview for Biennale Edition publication, Peripheral ARTeries, Autumn 2017
Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, group show, 01 Feb - 16 Feb 2017
Scratching the Veneer, Edwardian Cloakrooms, Bristol, 16-22 Nov. 2016
Artist's talk with Tour Exchange, 19 Nov.2016
Pop up Cinema, (showing 2 short films) Spike Island, 29 April to 03 May 2016;
Video interview for exhibition & archive, April 2016;
Slider - Group exhibition of slides celebrating Artspace 40 - 29 April to 29 June 2016;
Fringe Art Bath, 2 group exhibitions, Austerity & Out of the Archive, Bath Central Library,27 May to June 12 2016.
Member of Writers' Forum Workshop, London
Novel Nights Group, Bristol
Novel Nights Group, Bristol
Study for Circuit Dance, 2025
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We Wandered Lonely as a Crowd, 2023