2000s
Armed Forces Memorial, 2009
Concerto Grosso pastel (detail), 2001
Magic Flute set design, 2008
Portrait sitting of Charles Saumarez Smith, 2004
Gerontius Westminster Cathedral, 2002
- 2009
- Ashmolean acquire large drawing archive
- Returns to life drawing at Chelsea Sketch Club
- Completes portrait of Sir David Scholey and Heart of Darkness designs, also devises centenary medal for British Biochemical Society
- Armed Forces Memorial installed at Westminster Abbey
- Exhibition of work on literary themes at the Oxfordshire Museum
- Photographed by Lord Snowdon for cover of Apollo magazine
- 2008
- Designs production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute directed by Simon Callow at Opera Holland Park
- Tom Phillips second exhibition at Shandy Hall and Unknown Celebrities at Williamson Art Gallery
- 2007
- 70th Birthday
- Bodleian acquire Tom Phillips Dante archive some of which features in Bodleian Summer Exhibition, and the National Portrait Gallery acquire a group of paintings and drawings
- Begins work on Armed Forces Memorial for Westminster Abbey
- Library at Elsinore completed and exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- Begins Quantum Poetics painting and writes a detailed account of its progress in an online studio diary
- Exhibition (word, image, ornament) at Flowers New York
- Humument Exhibition at the Kellior Library, National Gallery of Scotland
- Tom Phillips takes part in the Drawing from Turner exhibition at Tate Britain
- Steps down as Chairman of Exhibitions, Royal Academy
- 2006
- Becomes Slade Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University and delivers series of 8 Slade Lectures at Oxford University including a concert of Tom Phillips World Premières at the Holywell Music Rooms, later repeated as a cushion concert at the Royal Academy
- Completed maquette for The Library at Elsinore is exhibited with other works in Tom Phillips Microretrospective at the Ashmolean Museum
- Draws his first Periwinkle Diary
- Blog/Studio Diary begins
- Starts series of Colour Sudoku works
- Complete new series of large pastel drawings, exhibited at Flowers Gallery, London
- Draws Freeman Dyson at IAS
- 2005
- Bellenden Renewal
- Samuel Johnson 50 pence coin
- Fourth Edition of A Humument published
- Begins large series of Humument collage works
- Paints Lord Robert May for the Royal Society and completes Blombos Cave drawing at Institute for Advanced Study in October
- Merry Meetings is published
- Makes a new version of 1972 painting Mapwalk which becomes a work of biography, "my life seen from above"
- One man exhibition at Flowers New York is favourably reviewed
- 2004
- First of seven annual trips to Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, as Director's Visitor
- Paints Sir John Sulston, draws five science professors at Merton College Oxford
- Portrait, a film by Bruno Wollheim recording the making of Phillips's portrait of Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of the NPG is shown on Channel 4
- Bellenden Garden installed
- One man exhibitions, New and Recent Work at Flowers East and Life and Death at Shandy Hall
- We Are The People, an exhibition and book of themed subjects in vernacular portrait photography curated by Phillips from his own postcard archive, is a popular success at the NPG
- 2003
- Writes A Summary Treatise on the Nature of Ornament delivered at Royal Academy Forum Ornament on Trial
- Concerto Grosso tapestry completed and exhibited with other Tom Phillips tapestry works in Lisbon
- Gerontius intarsia installed Westminster Cathedral
- Designs production of John Osbourne's The Entertainer directed by David Freeman at Derby Playhouse
- Completes series of small sculpture works Lucy Ironworks exhibited at Christ Church Picture Gallery
- Becomes Hon Fellow St Catherine's College, Oxford
- 2002
- Concerto Grosso painting and pastel both at RA Summer Exhibition
- Large Wittgenstein murals installed at Gannett HQ USA
- Second Bellenden Road mosaic installed
- Paints Simon Callow
- Completes large panel mud painting Assumption of the Saints for New Longton church
- Awarded CBE in Birthday Honours list
- Composer Tarik O'Regan sets postcard texts to music
- 2001
- One man show at Modern Art Museum Fort Worth
- Bellenden Road mosaic installed
- Concerto Grosso pastel and Music World tapestry completed
- Is made honorary member of Pastel Society
- 2000
- Illustrates Waiting for Godot (folio)
- The Postcard Century, a history of the 20th century in postcards is published and complementary Channel 4 series Pictures in the Post screened
- Digital portrait of Prof. Susan Greenfield completed (NPG)
- Becomes Honorary member of Royal Institute
- Paints Richard Eyre and begins series of Ornament paintings