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CANAL is pleased to present its show for the summer, an exhibition by Phil Ashcroft, mixing live painting, large scale canvases and screenprints.

Ashcroft will create a large-scale mural over the course of the exhibition, as well as presenting a new lightbox work inspired by the gallery’s location on the Regent’s Canal at Haggerston, east London.

Ashcroft’s works are influenced by 1980s graffiti, comics, street art and graphics. His paintings are rendered in a bold, graphic style, combining loose, gradient brushwork utilising a limited palette.

Post-apocalyptic, overtly heroic landscapes reference sources as diverse as Japanese Ukiyo-e art, American pop art, Abstract Expressionism, graffiti and Marvel comics. The works draw on the myths and legends of failed civilizations.

Phil Ashcroft is a graduate of St Martins College of Art and Design. He was a finalist in the John Moores Painting Prize 2014 and Celeste Art Prize 2007. He was selected for the Contemporary Art Society ARTfutures 2007 and 2005.

His first monograph, Solar System Parameters , with forward by Paul Hobson, was published by Gamma Proforma in 2013.

Ashcroft also collaborates on live-painting projects in galleries and alternative spaces from street locations to shops. These have included No Soul for Sale , Tate Modern, London (2010); Cans 2 Festival , London (2008); Special Relationship , Scion Space, Los Angeles (2008), Elephant Technique , Village Underground (2006), All The People We Like Are Dead , London (2004), and Graffiti Meets Windows 1 , Hank-Yu Department Store, Osaka (2002).

Works are held in public and private collections worldwide. Commissions include projects for Aedas Architects, Amnesty International (UK), British Film Institute (Godzilla film poster/dvd cover), Levis, muf architecture, Nike Town, Royal Mail, Sony PSP and Yahoo (UK).

Ashcroft recently completed a new commission of paintings for the Twr Y Felin, a new luxury art hotel in St David’s, Pembrokeshire which featured in The Times Cool Hotel Guide.

For further information and images, please contact Monika Bobinska on 0786 606 3663 or mebobinska@gmail.com.