Portfolio – Perdita Phillips

a view of a gallery with on black wall, a white wall and a view through a large doorway of a banner hanging in a white space

Collected Habitats (2025)

a collection 2d, 3d, videos and video installation from 2014-2025

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

behind, before, below

behind, before and below the School of Mines museum

Experience geo-haunting works from Perdita Phillips, one of Australia’s most persistently generative ecological artists in Collected Habitats at Ellenbrook Arts. Phillips draws from over thirty years of attunement to the ecosystems of Western Australia to stage a medley of video installations, sound, photography and three-dimensional works that are linked by strong connections to ecologies of …

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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 map of the largest extent of temporary woodlines around Kalgoorlie-Boulder/Karlkurla, covering an area bigger than Tasmania

a sepia-toned digital print on canvas of an indistinct willy willy of dust advancin towards a picket fence that is propped up with a piece of wood

Willy Willy (edge of town)

dust rises through the town — willy willy

dull, greyish pattern of shapes -- print on fabric of an aerial photograph of the Golden Mile in 1949

Wartime (1949)

searching for the infamous Boulder Block

detail of a black and white print on fabric that has been coloured with reddish ochre. Text on the left reads Kalgoorlie (townsite) and on the right is a jagged network of tenement boundaries with the names of finds

Tenements (Frearson’s 1895)

yellow light and pink ochres across the Golden Mile

a dark red stain made of soil and ochre painted onto a banner printed with a black and white aerial photo

Red Cloud (salt lake)

soil is turned and lifts into the sky: red dust over an aerial landscape

dark bluish grey image with lots of fine speckled detail and a number of dark blue-black rounded and elongated shapes

Night Lake (position doubtful)

dark night flying over landscape

Danaë Unbound

Danaë who was pursued by Zeus (or Miss E. D. photographed by J J Dwyer 6 June 1909)

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

maven (raven)

banners from the Terrane Project

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

die back

An experimental film about the Coalfields of Collie, southwest Western Australia.

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

rock love (2024)

Maven (raven)Terrane Project DrawingLake View (dust)Void I to VI in the galleryRed Cloud (trophy)Red Cloud (resumption of nuclear testing)Red Cloud (collecting wood)Mirage IIDanaë Unbound (dust) and Danaë UnboundTenements (Frearson’s 1895) (detail)Signs of the timesRed cloud (salt lake)Woodlines Rock love brings together mixed media works responding to the past and present landscapes of the Goldfields. Artist …

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structural grotto (exchange)

a grotto for not-so-round table conversations

a greyish print of man from the 1900s wearing a hat and with sleeves rolled standing in front of a partially visible sluicing cradle. FIne gold lines and text have been printed over the image

Lithic Traces in the Archive

Tate Adams Memorial Residency at Baldessin Studio (State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship)

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