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Perdita Phillips

contemporary artist

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a cropped picture of an Edwardian woman and a baby obscured by a blob of red dirt.

Collected Habitats (2025)

portion of a gold nugget against a black background and fragment of text that reads -gget

behind, before, below

a grey splotchy background with a paler organic oval shape in the lower left corner over which a red coloured tracery of lines has been painted with soil/ochre muddy paint

Woodlines

a cropped picture of an Edwardian woman and a baby obscured by a blob of red dirt.

maven (raven)

a blurry photocopy print of miners and horse coated with coal dust

die back

head of an Edwardian woman on a pinky read background. The head is a negative image

rock love (2024)

brown crumpled cardboard

structural grotto (exchange)

Shells and coins arranged against a black background

joondakammer: a cabinet of curiosity for the City of Joondalup

a grey image with a large black shape that looks a bit like an animal

Way beyond (2024)

a bluish heavily cropped image of two men standing face to face viewed from the chest up

explosive rock love

a blue man in a blue image with a slight bit of mud in the top left corner

footwall

a detail of a blue print with red mud over 2/3 of it

red cloud (trophy)

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