Ciara Phillips

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Ciara Phillips is a Canadian/Irish artist based in Bergen, Norway, since 2022. She studied Fine Art at Queen's University (BFA, Hons.) in Kingston, Canada, and at Glasgow School of Art (MFA) before establishing her studio in Glasgow in 2004. Phillips' process-lead approach to working with print, has gained her international recognition for both her individual and collaborative work in the field of contemporary art. She has worked as an educator and as an artist in community contexts since the late 1990s, and her long-term artwork, Workshop (2010 - ) – which engages people of all ages and backgrounds in thinking-through-making with her – has been exhibited widely in public institutions.