Head for Flowers, at 82 Kingland Road, London E2 8DP  on Saturday 12th January 2013 between 2-4pm for the private view of "Square to Circle and Back" a  exhibition of prints featuring the above work by Tom Phillips. The exhibition continues until February 9th, and opening hours are Tuesday- Saturday 10am to 6pm.

Highlights of 2012 are reflected in a new selection of prints on offer at the Shop including Tom Phillips's design for the XXX Olympiad Silver Kilo Coin and Sixteeen Appearances of the Union Jack, chosen for the Royal Academy Diamond Jubilee portfolio. Also available is one of the very first Humument prints,  made at Kelpra Studios in 1970 and only recently discovered in our archive.

We have revised the Editions section of the site  to include links to prints available from CCA Galleries and we have also enhanced the Music Scores section of the site to include playable sound recordings.

For the month of December Tom Phillips will be the featured book artist at the wonderful bookartbookshop, 17 Pitfield Street, Hoxton, London N1 6HB.

Join him there for a preview on Friday 30th November between 5.30 - 7pm
information, opening hours and directions here

The fifth edition of A Humument is reviewed by Chris McCabe in the current issue of Poetry Review, Autumn 2012, (guest edited by Charles Boyle), which can be purchased online at this link. 

And here follows a round up of recent reviews, all viewable online but each of these publications worthy of your subscription.

'Every Day of my Life is Like a Page'
Review of A Humument by James Kidd
Literary Review
Issue 400 July 2012
http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/kidd_07_12.php

'Were there but world enough and time': Tom Phillips on A Humument
interview with Andrew David King 
September 7 2012
The Kenyon Review
http://www.kenyonreview.org/2012/09/tom-phillips-interview/

'Double Act' Review of A Humument by Adam Smyth
London Review of Books
Vol.34 No.19 October 11 2012
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n19/adam-smyth/double-act

Tom Phillips: An Interview
Adam Smyth and Gill Partington
London Review of Books online
October 4 2012
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2012/10/04/tom-phillips/tom-phillips-an-interview

and in case you missed it back in May
'A Humument. Long Revision'
David Jennings
19th May 2012
The Spectator
http://www.exacteditions.com/read/the-spectator/19-may-2012-31229/50/3/

Commissioned by the University of Sussex to commemorate its 25th anniversary in 1986 A Course in Sussex shows six excerpts from university life, each one a collaged page from A Human Document.

In a feature announcing the print in Bulletin, the University of Sussex newsletter, Tom Phillips is quoted as saying "University is a place one comes to change into oneself".

Twenty five years later this second version, A Course in Sussex II was commissioned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the university. 

Tom Phillips will be speaking at an event to launch this new edition on 28th June 2012  from 6.30 - 8pm 3rd Floor, Bramber House, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QU

 

Tom Phillips will be giving a talk about the exhibition 'The Remains of the Day' at Flowers East on Tuesday 3rd July 7pm - 8.30pm.  The show continues until 7th July 2012.

The Remains of the Day II ( Lussuriosi), Oil & assemblage on canvas

Signed copies of A Humument and of the recent Bodleian books can be had from Review Bookshop.

Tom Phillips has become an infrequent live tweeter. You can follow him from the link at the top right of this page.

The Royal Academy filmed Tom talking about some of the works in his current show at Flowers East (until July 7th). Tom Phillips is also interviewed by Richard Cork in the Summer 2012 issue of RA Magazine, read it here.

Announcing a number of events to mark the occasion of Tom Phillips's Seventy Fifth birthday, beginning, on 24th May 2012, the day itself, with the launch of a brand new version of the Tom Phillips website and the publication by Thames & Hudson of the new and updated 5th edition of A Humument.

On 25th May all readers of this blog are invited to the opening reception of an exhibition of graphics and original works titled South London Dreaming at GX Gallery, the exhibition continues until 13th June.

The Remains of the Day an exhibition of new work by Tom Phillips opens at Flowers East (82 Kingsland Road London E2) on the 27th May and runs until 7th July 2012.

Tom Phillips will be reading from the Humument 5th Edition on 30th May at Review bookshop.

Finally, five new prints and a sculpture are on show at the Royal Academy 2012 Summer Exhibition which runs from 4th June until 12th August 2012.