(1976 - )
Born in Ottawa, Canada, Ciara Phillips studied Fine Art at Queen’s University, Kingston (BFA 2000) before completing her Masters in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA, 2004). Currently based in Glasgow, she is a lecturer in painting and printmaking at the GSA and creator of Poster Club, a group of Glasgow-based artists who collaborate on printmaking and event projects. She has exhibited her work extensively in the UK and internationally, with recent shows including '2021 MONO', Glasgow Print Studio (2021); 'Materiality, collaboration and agency', Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki (2021); 'It's not for you we did it', an online commission in collaboration with Sara Greavu, EVA International, Limerick (2020); and 'Brexit: Mail Art from a Small Island', sipgate, Düsseldorf (2019). In 2020, Phillips was Recipient of The Queen Sonja Print Award, and in 2019, she was awarded the Haugesund Internasjonale Tresnitt Festival Prize, in Norway. She has completed numerous residencies in the UK and abroad, and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2014.