PHIL ATRILL MA (R.C.A)
GLASS ARTIST
ARTIST STATEMENT

Glass artist Phil Atrill was born in Plymouth, 1972. He produces a variety of work from fluid sculptural pieces to unique vessels and production items.
My starting point for this body of work was horizons and how the light changes in different weather conditions. From sunrise to sunset, to stormy sky’s and clear sunny summer days, each moment is different. Using colour to suggest these moods, I have tried to capture this movement and moments in time. Making each group of pieces unique to a certain place and moment in time. The latest group of pieces,’ Horizon Curve’, combines these elements and moves the interaction of the forms a stage further. The strong graduation of colour enhances the fluid forms and the interaction between the pieces.

C.V.
Since gaining an MA at the Royal College of Art in 2001, Phil Atrill has been working as a glass artist in London. While producing his own work he has been fortune to work with many prominate designers to produce their designs.
Having gained numerous awards and grants, including the Crafts Council Development Award, he has attended classes at Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine, USA and Northlands Creative Glass, Scotland.
Phil currently shows work throughout the U.K. and Europe, with pieces in many public and private collections.
In 2022 Phil was commissioned to supply his artistic glass for 14 upgraded suites at the Dorchester Hotel in London

Select Exhibitions:
2013 – ‘SUMMER EXHIBITON,’ group show at ROBERT FOGELL GALLERY, St. Martins, Lincolnshire.
“HORIZONS,’ two person show with Kathy Ramsay Carr at the JUNCTION ART GALLERY, Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
‘FAREWELL,’ final group show with the Maguire’s at THE STRATHEARN GALLERY, Crieff, Scotland.
2012. ‘Collect.’ with Contemporary Applied Arts, LONDON
‘Art in Action,’ Waterperry, Nr Oxford. Exhibited as part of the Market Place
2011. ‘Collect.’ with Contemporary Applied Arts, LONDON
Art in Action,’ Waterperry, Nr Oxford. Exhibited as a demonstrator as part of the Glass section.
2010. ‘New Works’, four person show with painters Mary Davidson & Patricia Sadler. STRATHEARN GALLERY, Crieff, Scotland
‘Collect.’ with Contemporary Applied Arts, LONDON.
‘Handmade,’ group show of British craft at Fortnum & Mason, Piccadilly, London
2009. ‘Blown Glass from the U.K.’ – St Joseph Galerie, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Three person show with painters Pam Carter & DavyBrown, ‘STRATHEARN GALLERY, Crieff, Scotland
2008. Two-person show with painter Charles Sutton.’ NEWASHGATE GALLERY, Farnham
2006. ‘Reflections- A Decade of Northlands Creative Glass.’ North Lands Collection on exhibit at the National Museums Scotland from July 2006 until January 2007
2005 ‘Two person show with Stewart Hearn’, Cecilia Colman Gallery, London
‘Member focus’, Contemporary Applied Arts, London.
2004 ‘The Mark of the Maker -Glass’, 10th Anniversary Show, JaM & Eton Applied Arts
2001. WORLD COMPETITION OF ARTS & CRAFTS KANAZAWA, group show, JAPAN