Tom Phillips - Chronology

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Image 1
Image 1 - Caption Twelve Collage Masks, 2022
Image 2
Image 2 - Caption Frontispiece to Folio Society
edition of Tristram Shandy
collage, 2020
Image 3
Image 3 - Caption The Path Not Taken, exhibited at Flowers East, 2012
Image 4
Image 4 - Caption Design for Olympic coin, 2011
Image 5
Image 5 - Caption Cardinal Newman mosaic (detail), 2010
Image 6
Image 6 - Caption Fifteen Moments from Heart of Darkness imagined by Tom Phillips collage, 2010
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- 2022
- On 28th November 2022 Tom Phillips dies at home at the age of 85
- Works on a series of collage masks using full-colour images from copies of Scientific American
- TP continues to work on a third version of A Humument
- T.S.Eliot's The Waste Land illustrated by TP is published by Folio Society to mark the centenary of the work
- New Talfourd Press limited edition artist's book Humbert is published
- 2021
- Shandy Hall hosts an exhibition of works by TP, titled A Grand Folio
- 700th anniversary of death of Dante Alighieri marked by exhibition of TP illustrations and translation of Inferno at Palazzo Blu in Pisa and an international touring exhibition Hyper Modern Dante organised by the Italian Cultural Institute
- 2020
- Tristram Shandy is published by Folio Society
- TP comes out of portrait retirement to work on a portrait commission from Churchill College Cambridge of their Honorary Fellow Dr Yusuf Hamied
- A group of works by TP, in the collection of Francesca and Massimo Valsecchi, go on permanent exhibition at the newly restored Palazzo Butera, Palermo
- 2019
- TP completes a series of illustrations to new edition of Tristram Shandy and also illustrations to a new translation of The Oresteia of Aeschylus for Carcanet Press
- 2018
- Following publication of the stated Final Edition of A Humument, TP finds himself returning to work on a third version of the book
- 2017
- TP is one of the judges of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2017
- Connected Works, an exhibition at Flowers Gallery, marks the occasion of TP’s 80th Birthday
- Irma: An opera, opus XIIB has its world première at the South London Gallery The production is devised and directed by Netia Jones with musical director Anton Lukoszevieze
- 2016
- The complete final edition of A Humument is published by Thames & Hudson
- The Bodleian Library celebrates the final edition of A Humument with a book launch event at the lecture theatre of the Weston Library, with speakers Dr Gill Partington, Dr Julia Jordan and Professor Adam Smyth.
- The Chapel of St George and the English Martrys at Westminster Cathedral is completed and dedicated by the Archbishop of Westminster
- The Royal Mint commemorates the 400th anniversary of the birth of Shakespeare with a five ounce proof coin in gold and silver designed by TP
- The Library at Elsinore is exhibited at Senate House Library, London in their first major exhibition Shakespeare:Metamorphosis
- Jake Auerbach’s film about 20 Sites n Years is released with a screening at Camberwell College of Arts
- 2015
- Opera Parallèle presents the American première of Heart of Darkness in its 2014-15 season
- Work by TP features in Great British Drawings, an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- At the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Gallery X is dedicated to A Humument
- 2014
- TP-designed Benjamin Britten 50 pence coin goes into general circulation in the UK
- Installation begins of TP-designed Chapel of St George and the English Martrys at Westminster Cathedral
- Images from A Humument to Accompany Ulysses published by Openings Closings Press
- The full score of Irma: An Opera published by Talfourd Press
- 2013
- Suite from Heart of Darkness première at Cadogan Hall
- Spoken word Humument is released on USB card
- A Humument Conference at Birkbeck College London
- Completes series of oil collage paintings, exhibited at Flowers Cork Street in September
- 2012
- Humument 5th Edition is published by Thames & Hudson
- Celebrates his 75th Birthday with exhibitions at Flowers and GX galleries
- Heart of Darkness is nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts Award
- Joins Twitter @TomPhillipsArt, tweeting in rhyme
- Completes Memorial at School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
- 2011
- Cicero Orations with illustrations by Tom Phillips published by Folio Society
- The Royal Mint commission Tom Phillips and Sir Anthony Caro to design the first UK kilo coins to mark the occasion of the 2012 London Olympic Games
- Two new books, Readers and Hats (editions Hansjorg Mayer/Bodleian library) Oxford Arts Society
- Heart of Darkness World Première at Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden Royal Opera House
- 2010
- Two new Tom Phillips books, African Goldweights and Ashanti Goldweights (facsimile sketchbook) are launched at Barbara Wein Galerie, Berlin
- Cardinal Newman mosaic installed in Westminster Cathedral

90s

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Image 1 - Caption Tom Phillips creating Rima's Wall, 1991
Image 2
Image 2 - Caption The Winter's Tale design, 1997
Image 3
Image 3 - Caption Africa, 1995
Image 4
Image 4 - Caption Monty Python Portrait, 1993
Image 5
Image 5 - Caption Works And Texts, 1992
Image 6
Image 6 - Caption Rima's Wall (detail), 1991
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- 1999
- Hon Fellow Royal Society of Portrait Painters
- Hon Fellow London Institute
- Becomes trustee of British Museum to 2006
- Composer Julian Anderson sets Humument texts to music
- 1998
- Translates libretto and designs production of Verdi’s Otello at ENO, directed by David Freeman
- Six of Hearts released on Largo Records
- Becomes trustee of National Portrait Gallery (to 2006)
- Begins series for BBC Music Magazine Notes in the Post
- Harrison Birtwistle sets the text of Song of Myself (wire sculpture) to music
- 1997
- Designs production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, directed by David Freeman for opening season at The Globe Theatre
- Uses earth in his designs which starts a series of works painted with earth pigments
- Aspects of Art (A Painter's Alphabet) is published along with Music in Art (Prestel), fifty essays on works inspired by music from the history of the visual arts, an expanded version of his long running series in BBC Music Magazine
- Concurrent exhibitions : Sacred & Profane at South London Gallery and Drawing to a Conclusion at Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Third edition of A Humument published
- 1996
- Marries Fiona Maddocks
- Sets up a new studio in Oxford
- 1995
- Africa The Art of A Continent opens at Royal Academy of Arts : Tom Phillips becomes its Chairman Of Exhibitions
- Writes Laudatio for Harrison Birtwistle: a verse encomium for the Siemens Stiftung in Munich
- Africa Exhibition tours to Berlin Martin Gropius Bau and the Guggenheim Museum New York
- 1993
- Resumes life drawing, sharing a model with artist and neighbour Nicola Hicks
- Becomes Josep Lluis Sert Practitioner in the Arts, Carpenter Center, Harvard where he makes a festschrift for Salman Rushdie, Merely Connect
- Tom Phillips Retrospective is shown at Yale Centre for British Art
- Begins a period of extensive travel as curator of Africa Show for the Royal Academy
- One man show The Graphic Works tours the UK until 1999
- 1992
- Completes portrait of Salman Rushdie
- Retrospective exhibition at Royal Academy
- Works Texts to 1992 published
- Exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum
- Concert including two new works, Six of Hearts and Mine is the Lifesong, with the Composers Ensemble at ICA
- 1991
- Completes portrait of Monty Pythons
- Makes series of collage illustrations to Plato’s Symposium (Folio Society)
- Begins large collage work Brent Cross and large pastel Rima’s Wall
- Returns to musical composition with Six of Hearts for Mary Weigold Songbook, developed with John Woolrich at Dartington International Summer School
- 1990
- Receives Prix Italia for A TV DANTE
- Begins The Peeler series
- Publishes Where Are They Now: Class of 47
- Tom Phillips’s mother dies

1937 — 49

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Image 1 - Caption David Phillips – Artist’s Father
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Image 2 - Caption My Mother at 18 and 88, 1989 (Ashmolean Museum)
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- 1949
- Influenced by older brother’s music tastes and visits to music hall in Brixton with mother
- 1947
- Leaves Bonneville Road to start secondary education at Henry Thornton Grammar School
- Family holiday in France and Germany
- Develops keen interest in trainspotting, cycling and music
- Learns bassoon and violin, sings solo baritone in school concerts
- 1942
- Attends Bonneville Road Junior School
- 1940
- Father goes to work in Abergavenny for several years
- 1939
- Second World War begins
- 1937
- Born Clapham, South London
- 1901
- Mother born
- 1881
- Father born

50s

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Image 1 - Caption Tom Phillips July 1955
Image 2
Image 2 - Caption David Rudkin Polyptych, 1964
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Image 3 - Caption
The City, 1958 (Pembroke College)
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- 1959
- Meets Jill Purdy, fellow member of Philharmonia Chorus while singing The Messiah under Beecham at Lucerne
- 1958
- Goes up to Oxford to study Anglo Saxon literature; spends much of time acting, doing theatre designs and making music
- Begins important friendship with David Rudkin whom he describes as "a vital intellectual stimulus"
- Attends Edgar Wind lectures on iconography in Renaissance Art and occasionally attends drawing class at Ruskin School
- Sells first painting The City to Pembroke College JCR for £12, exhibited at Ashmolean (alphabetically placed next to Picasso)
- 1957
- Application to Oxford University successful, gains a place at St Catherine’s Society
- Auditions for Philharmonia Chorus founded by Walter Legge, is accepted and sings on the recording of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Otto Klemperer
- Draws during Albert Hall rehearsals with Wilhelm Pitts the chorus master of Bayreuth
- 1956
- Tom Phillips's father dies
- 1955
- London County Council Scholarship to Paris and Aix-en-Provence ("where I did a bad drawing of an apple in Cézanne’s Studio")
- 1954
- Exhibits paintings on the railings of the Embankment
- 1950
- On family holiday to Europe, Tom visits Uffizi, Louvre and Prado

60s

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Image 1 - Caption Tom Phillips c.1970
Image 2
Image 2 - Caption The Message Digests itself (detail), 1969
Image 3
Image 3 - Caption A Humument (first edition), 1966
Image 4
Image 4 - Caption Four Pieces for John Tilbury (detail), 1965
Image 5
Image 5 - Caption Golden Section painting, 1964
Image 6
Image 6 - Caption One True Cross collage, 1963
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- 1969
- The first of the lettering paintings, The Message Digests Itself finished, along with Here we Exemplify
- On the day of the moon landing Phillips completes Irma: The Score, an opera extracted entirely from A Humument
- Joint prize at John Moores Exhibition
- Prize at AIA gallery exhibition
- Brian Eno becomes a neighbour and works as a painting assistant
- 1968
- Teaching at Wolverhampton Art College
- Performs in Cornelius Cardew’s Schooltime Compositions
- Concrete poem The Singing Mushroom for John Cage is published by Openings Press and the graphic score Ornamentik by the Circle Press
- 1966
- Begins work on A Humument
- Develops Ephemerides lecture which he gives at Winchester College of Art, invited by Brian Eno
- Exhibits for first time at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
- Starts teaching at Corsham and is involved in performance of Cornelius Cardew’s The Great Learning which instigates the formation of the Scratch Orchestra with Phillips as a founder member
- Writes Music for n Players with graphic score
- 1965
- Son Leo is born
- Completes first major painting A Little Art History
- Exhibition at AIA gallery London, his first one man show - a sellout
- Through Noel Forster starts teaching Liberal Studies at Walthamstow Polytechnic where he meets the pianist John Tilbury and participates in improvisation concerts at several polytechnics
- His first musical composition is Four Pieces for John Tilbury
- Also in this year a second score, Jigsaw Pieces
- 1964
- Graduates from Camberwell School of Art work selected for Young Contemporaries exhibition
- Daughter Ruth is born
- Polyptych of David Rudkin is finished
- Roy Ascott asks Tom Phillips to teach a Liberal Arts course at Ipswich School of Art where he befriends his best student, Brian Eno
- Is working on Golden Section paintings, small collage works and large pastel drawings
- 1963
- Phillips makes his first large pastel drawings, one of which is purchased by Tate in 1965. He continues to make large pastel drawings throughout his career
- Also in this year a first collage piece One True Cross
- 1962
- Leaves Philharmonia Chorus
- Begins most ambitious painting to date, a polyptych portrait of David Rudkin
- 1961
- Marries Jill Purdy
- Starts full time studies at Camberwell College of Art: emphasis of college is still on drawing from life but classes in abstract exercises by Charles Howard an inspiration. Principal teacher still Frank Auerbach
- Many further moments of enlightenment in conversation with RB Kitaj, Noel Forster, Roy Ascott and Richard Morphet (a friend and neighbour who worked at the Tate in the prints and drawings dept). He is taught by tutors with academic background and pioneering approach to art education and added to this, an explosion of new form of printmaking, silkscreen
- 1960
- Finishes university and returns to London to teach English, Music and Art at Aristotle Road Secondary School in Brixton
- Signs up for evening life drawing course at Camberwell School of Art under Frank Auerbach

70s

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Image 1 - Caption After Raphael comes off the press
Image 2
Image 2 - Caption Tapestry for St Catherine's College Oxford (detail), 1978
Image 3
Image 3 - Caption Slegs Vir Almal: African Masks [no. 2], 1974
Image 4
Image 4 - Caption 54 Union Jacks Occuring On Postcards (detail), 1974
Image 5
Image 5 - Caption Page from A Humument 1973
Image 6
Image 6 - Caption Benches (detail), 1970
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- 1979
- Publishes set of Composers prints based on his collage series
- Waddingtons publish nine large screenprints from Dante’s Inferno
- British Council touring exhibition of Tom Phillips graphics begins in the Netherlands and tours Italy, Spain, South America and Iraq until 1988
- 1978
- Eno produces recording of Irma (on his own Obscure label) to a controversial arrangement by Gavin Bryars
- Phillips writes his first reviews for TLS
- Tapestries installed at St Catherine's College, Oxford
- Self portrait with linoleum
- Begins Ashanti Weights sketchbook as meditation on his fledgling collection
- 1977
- Begins Dante Diary and series of daily drawings of Dante’s bust
- Fire at Editions Alecto destroys work on Dante’s Inferno: Phillips decides to continue the project independently and will create one of the finest livres d’artiste of the 20th century. Phillips works to his own translation and every detail of the book, the binding, even the paper is bespoke. He assembles a production team and will spend the next ten years on the project
- Series of exhibitions in Australia: the Australian National Gallery at Canberra purchases his entire print archive
- Drawing: A Film made by Arts Council/Arbor Films
- Humument Page 85 variations published by Coriander Press
- 1976
- Meets Pella Erskine Tulloch at his one man show at the Serpentine Gallery
- A Humument completed and published
- Begins illustrations to Dante’s Inferno at Editions Alecto
- A Walk to the Studio series of prints is published
- Work begins on tapestries for St Catharine’s College, Oxford
- Designs a print to celebrate the opening of the new National Theatre and a further print Shakespeare in America
- The Mappin Wall installation is shown at the Mappin Gallery in Sheffield and at the opening John Tilbury plays a concert of Phillips's works
- 1975
- Last Notes from Endenich pastel is completed and developed into a music performance with Jean-Yves Bosseur
- Several major one man shows in this year at Gemeente and Kunstalle Basel where he meets Ruth & Marvin Sackner, who have huge significance in the rest of his career as both patrons and friends
- Begins FVZ diaries
- A detail of After Raphael is used as the cover art to Brian Eno album Another Green World
- Publishes Imaginary Postcards with Jonathan Williams
- 1974
- Completes Slegs vir Almal series and associated South Africa works as a politicised response to apartheid
- Begins large group of works based on Conjectured Flags
- Finishes 50 Recapitulatory Paintings for monograph Works Texts to 74 published by editions Hansjorg Mayer
- Designs Starless and Bible Black album cover for King Crimson, featuring stencil lettering and fragment from A Humument ('this night wounds time')
- 1973
- Begins annual photographic work 20 Sites n Years which he continues each year and performs as an occasional lecture at the Tate
- Starts series of collage works Composers Series
- A Humument exhibited in its entirety at the ICA
- Further exhibitions at Marlborough Gallery and Kunsthalle Bern
- December visit to South Africa starts a lifetime interest in African art and the beginning of a collection
- John Cage’s book Silence: Lectures and Writings published, Phillips interested in the ideas of Cage which he develops visually
- 1972
- Decides to give up teaching, leaving his position at Wolverhampton College of Art
- Begins work on Mappin Wall, paints Angela Flowers (Judgement of Paris…), finishes After Raphael and a music score using the cut up technique, Lesbia Waltz
- Tom Phillips on judging panel for John Moores Exhibition
- 1971
- Gastdozent at the school of art in Kassel
- Paints Ein Deutches Requiem
- Tate Gallery purchases Benches
- With the publication of Trailer (a trailer to A Humument), Tom Phillips begins a creative partnership with his publisher Hansjorg Mayer that will continue over 40 years
- First Tetrad Press volumes of A Humument appear
- Exhibition Paintings &c 1965-71 tours UK
- 1970
- Begins Benches and Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Gardens (two panels, one of which he works on in Wolverhampton, the other at home in London
- First one man show at Flowers Gallery
- Begins Terminal Greys, a work he continues to the present
- First performance of Irma at the Bordeaux Festival

80s

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Image 1 - Caption Tom Phillips c.1984
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Image 2 - Caption Humument Globe, 1989
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Image 3 - Caption Curriculum Vitae I, 1986
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Image 4 - Caption A TV Dante (C4 booklet), 1985
Image 5
Image 5 - Caption Samuel Beckett, 1984
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Image 6 - Caption Dante's Inferno frontispiece, 1983
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- 1989
- Retrospective at National Portrait Gallery with catalogue The Portrait Works
- New studio in Bellenden Road
- Makes Humument Globes with Sylvia Sumira
- Begins portrait of the Monty Pythons
- Canto’s I-VIII of A TV DANTE broadcast by Channel 4
- Colfe’s School mural
- Bookcover for Iris Murdoch's The Message to the Planet
- Completes paintings, menu design and glass screen for The Ivy restaurant
- The Artist’s Eye, a documentary on Tom Phillips by Jake Auerbach is broadcast on BBC2
- 1988
- Completes a series of collage works, Meditations on the Cross, and two multiple self-portraits
- Paints Pete Townshend of The Who for cover of Face Dances album
- Einer an Jeder Seite commission from Imperial War Museum
- AMM record Irma for Matchless Recordings
- 1987
- Completes a number of portraits in preparation for the National Portrait Gallery one man exhibition
- Hires the Oval Cricket Ground for his 50th Birthday Party and Cricket Match, TPXI v The Rest Of The Artworld
- Designs the cover for Iris Murdoch’s new novel The Book and the Brotherhood
- First revised edition of A Humument published
- 1986
- Begins first version of series of 20 Curriculum Vitae paintings
- 1985
- Begins working on A TV DANTE with Peter Greenaway
- Continues series of Works on Vellum
- First version of C Loopseend is constructed ;
- Heart of A Humument published and Thames & Hudson trade edition of Dante’s Inferno
- Vice Chair of the Copyright Council (to 1989)
- 1984
- Starts Humbert’s Cursory Rhymes sketchbooks
- Draws Samuel Beckett at Riverside Studios
- Elected Royal Academician
- Paints Brian Eno and James Fenton, begins portrait of Iris Murdoch
- Visits Japan and starts to use freehand lettering
- Series of works on vellum, using extra vellum from Dante binding
- 1983
- Dante finished
- Wins Frances Williams Memorial Prize V&A Museum
- Bill Hurrell’s Toronto Tarot
- First London performance of Irma at ICA as part of Adrian Jack’s Musicica series
- 1982
- Completes series of small sculpture works Large Paintings Small Galleries
- Moves into studio at Talfourd Road
- 1980
- Works each Saturday morning on lithographic stone to make portrait in installments of Pella Erskine Tulloch, published as Pella on Saturdays
- Also in this year portraits of Ruth and Marvin Sackner
- First trade edition of A Humument published by Thames and Hudson

2000s

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Image 1 - Caption Armed Forces Memorial, 2009
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Image 2 - Caption Concerto Grosso pastel (detail), 2001
Image 3
Image 3 - Caption Magic Flute set design, 2008
Image 4
Image 4 - Caption Portrait sitting of Charles Saumarez Smith, 2004
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Image 5 - Caption Gerontius Westminster Cathedral, 2002
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- 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