Eglin, Philip Michael
Eglin, Philip Michael
Born Gibraltar 29 Nov. 1959; s of Jack and Mary Eglin; m 1987, Jennet Walters; two s
ceramic artist
Education
Harlow Tech. Coll.; Staffordshire Poly. (BA 1982); Royal Coll. of Art (MA Ceramics 1986)
Career
Sen. Lectr, Staffs Poly., later Staffs Univ., 1987–2011. Mem., Selected Index Cttee, Crafts Council, 1997–2000. Fellow, Arts Foundn, 1993. Solo e xhibitions include: Stafford Art Gall., 1990; Oxford Gall., 1991; New Work, 2004, Popes, Pin-ups and Pooches, 2009, Unfinished Business, 2017, Scottish Gall., Edinburgh; Franklin Parrasch Gall., NY; Barrett Marsden Gall., London, 2001, 2003, 2006 and Hands Off Berbatov (ceramics), 2008; Borrowings, Nottingham Mus. and Art Gall., 2007; Dean Proj., Sculpture Objects and Functional Art Fair, NY, 2007; Spiritual Heroes (ceramics), 2008, Wakelin Award, 2017, Glynn Vivian Art Gall., Swansea; Mixed Marriage(s), Blackwell Hse, Cumbria, 2011; Nice Pair of Jugs, 2013, Kick the Bucket, 2016, New Works, 2020, Marsden Woo Gall., London; Slipping the Trail, touring exhibn, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 2015; Ajar: a taste of contemporary art, Art Genève, Switzerland, 2019; Strange Bedfellows, Scottish Gall., Edinburgh, 2021; group exhibitions include: Contemporary Applied Arts, London, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1992; Crafts Council, London, 1991, 1996, 1999; One From the Heart, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 1995; The Nude in Clay, Chicago, 1995; Hell Fire, Stedelijk Mus. in De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, 2008; Galerie Handwerk, Munich, 2009; Inscription, Jerwood Space, London, 2010; Modern British Potters, Goldmark Gall., Uppingham, 2010; Double Take, 2010, Many a Slip, 2015, Marsden Woo Gall., London; Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Taipei Ceramics Mus., 2010; Contemp. British Studio Ceramics, Graine Collection, Charlotte, NC, 2010; British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent, 2011; RA Summer Show, 2012; Gp Jug Show, 2013, Motifs, Places, Figures Libres, 2014, Helene Azziza Gall., Paris; Positions of Design, 2014, Meister der Moderne, 2014, Galerie Handwerk, Munich; Taste Contemp. Craft, Artgenève, Geneva, 2015, 2022; Ceramix, Bonnefanten Mus., Maastricht, 2015; Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, 2015; Nat. Mus. of Wales, Cardiff, 2015; V&A Mus., London, 2015; Material: Earth, Messums, Wilts, 2017; Things of Beauty Growing, Yale Centre for British Art and Fitzwilliam Mus., Cambridge, 2017; Taste Contemp. Craft, Art Genève, Switzerland, 2018, 2022; Oxford Pioneers, 2018, Graphic Pots, 2019, Blue and White, 2020, Slipware, 2022, Oxford Ceramics Gall.; Five Cubed, La Fonderie Kugler, Geneva, 2019; Welcome to My World, Burton Art Gall., Bideford and touring, 2021; In Dialogue, Berney Fine Arts in collaboration with Taste Contemporary, Kunsttage Basel, 2021; Merci de Déranger, Musée de Picardie, Amiens, 2022; work in public collections, including: V&A Mus.; Brighton Mus.; Crafts Council, London; Portsmouth City Mus. and Art Gall.; Fitzwilliam Mus., Cambridge; York Mus.; Middlesbrough Inst. Modern Art; Stedelijk Mus., Amsterdam; Gardiner Mus., Toronto; Mint Mus., N Carolina; Sèvres Mus., Paris; La Piscine Mus., Roubaix; Nat. Mus. of Wales, Cardiff; Craft Study Centre, Farnham; Glynn Vivian Art Gall., Swansea (Wakelin Award purchase prize, 2017); Williamson Art Gall. and Mus., The Wirral, 2022. Henry Rothschild Meml Lect., Shipley Art Gall., Gateshead, 2019. Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts, Jerwood Foundn, 1996
Publications
Philip Eglin, 1997; (with Tony Hayward) Eglin’s Etchings, 2008; catalogues: Borrowings, 2007; Popes, Pin-ups and Pooches, 2009; Mixed Marriage(s), 2011; Slipping the Trail, 2015; Unfinished Business, 2017; Ajar, 2019
Recreations
manager of football teams, Westpoint Wanderers (mini-soccer league, under 11s) and Shamblers FC (Potteries jun. youth league, under 13s)
