“I’m motivated by what makes us human, the human experience and the impact we have on each other, what we do or what we say and the paths and journeys these actions can take us on.”

Phil Price is a South London artist working across mediums and materials -  from screen printing and hand-cut stencils to spray paints and acrylics, then hand finishing with charcoal, chalks and pastels on pops of colour painted onto cardboard or OSB board.

He is constantly inspired by success through adversity and achievement against all the odds, themes he actively integrates into his work. As an Activities Manager for a charity working with young people and families impacted by complex illnesses and disabilities, he is daily confronted by challenge and adversity on psychological, social and emotional levels. And from these stories, which underpin his professional life, spring the themes, characters and modes of creation that bring his artistry to life and keep it grounded in human experience.

“To create origami-resin coated butterflies embellished with Barbed wire... I believe that fine art does not need to be confined to canvas and paper.”

Ballerinas and Butterflies, an exhibition of his most recent work, is no exception. Through representations of these two different creatures through exciting, often non-traditional art mediums, he asks the viewer to bear witness to beauty in the everyday, realise the abrasive as a tool of necessary communication and re-consider at all times positive possibilities in human interactions with ourselves and everything around us.

A free exhibition with proceeds from all sales going to the artist’s growth and funding public programmes in advancing and diversifying engagement in visual storytelling.

Opening times: West Norwood Picturehouse | West Norwood Cinema | Showtimes