Interested in the transgressive and interdisciplinary possibilities of food, hospitality and education, phillip McCrilly’s work explores the idea of threshold in often collaborative forms. Combining somatic learning with haptic processes of making, food is frequently used as a conduit for the transference of knowledge and skills.
ARTIST BIO
Phillip McCrilly is a Belfast-based artist and chef. Previously a co-director at Catalyst Arts, he is currently a participant within the Freelands Artist Programme at PS² (2021-2022), as well as a member of FRUIT SHOP; a collective of Belfast-based artists operating within a suburban residential café that merge food production and grassroots growing initiatives with local food histories. Recent projects include Irish Modernisms at CCA Derry~Londonderry, Jaunt commissioned by Catalyst Arts and Goethe Institut, Dance Food (with Fiona Hallinan) at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, and Kombucha Bar at Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
Gorse Wine (After John Oliver), 2021, Phillip McCrilly, 750ml, Glass, Found Bottle Top, Shaw’s Bridge Gorse Flowers, Yeast, Sugar, Filtered Water
FRUIT SHOP, September 2020-present, artist-run café
Considering cruising and foraging as likeminded deviant practices, his current research is centred around collective acts of land and property reclamation, as well as the potential for queer desire in the rural Irish landscape.
When I put my finger to the hole they've cut for a dimmer switch in a wall of plaster stiffened with horsehair it seems I've scratched a two-hundred-year-old itch, 2021, Phillip McCrilly, wall painting, black gloss paint on black matt emulsion
The Geographic Tongue (as part of Sam's Eden), 2021, Phillip McCrilly, collaborative performance, cruising walk with refreshments
Jaunt Seed Packets, 2020, Phillip McCrilly, bespoke and stamped packets, wild flower seeds
TITLE
On silent air (no.10)
ARTIST
Charys Wilson
ABOUT THE WORK
On silent air is a new edition of works the size of a handheld tablet by Charys Wilson. The plants and flowers featured in this edition of 10 individual works have been sourced from the immediate vicinity of The Living House, North Belfast; a collaboration between Household and MMAS Architects to inhabit and re-animate the building as a site for artistic and social exchange They create domestic landscapes intended for the home, which, through recycled polarised TV screens, provide partly obscured glimpses of organic growth. On silent air speaks of a mediated, digitalised, and disembodied experience of accessing a rapidly fading, tactile natural world through a technological interface.
DATE
2026
DIMENSIONS
24 cm (h) x 17 cm (w) x 3 cm (d)
MEDIUM
Wood, pins, dried plant, section of recycled tv screen, artist glass
ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
1/10 original works
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charys Wilson’s practice centres on installation and small-scale sculptural works. Drawing on a background in printmaking, her attention is often directed towards alignment, layering and the subtle relationships between materials, light and space. Elements of the outside are brought indoors, creating quiet encounters through illusion, mimicry, light and shadow.
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