About
Philippa Hagon is a Sydney-based artist working on Gadigal land. She works within the field of expanded painting, sculpture, and installation practices. Her work combines life experience, art history, and socio-cultural references using a diverse range of materials, media, and processes.
Hagon’s practice examines the use of everyday common and reclaimed materials to think beyond their useful/literal function. The reclaimed materials invoke the socio-cultural excesses of late capitalism. The discarded waste poses questions of value/less and worth/less, not only in the discarded materials themselves but in the subjective relationships we have to the materiality of desire and excess.
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Education
2018 - 2019 Master of Fine Arts, National Art School, Sydney, Australia.
2005 - 2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School, Sydney, Australia.
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2024 “Finger to finger thumb to thumb”, Minerva, Redfern, Sydney, Australia, (solo).
2023 Les Sculptures Refusèes 2023, Q Station, Manly, Sydney, Australia.
Two sides of the same coin, curated by Elizabeth Reidy and Todd Fuller, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Bondi.
“Farr St”, Minerva, Marrickville, Sydney Australia.
Catapult, Glass Contemporary/Dither_art emerging artist launch, Taylor Square, Sydney.
2022 “Eddy”, Minerva, Central Station, Sydney, Australia.
“Gelato Café”, Minerva, Redfern, Sydney Australia.
HIDDEN: Rookwood Sculptures, finalist, Rookwood Cemetery, Western Sydney.
HIDDEN: Satellite Exhibition, ACU McGlade Gallery, Strathfield, Sydney.
North Sydney Art Prize, finalist, Waverton, North Sydney.
To Organize and Pacify #3, Inside Outside Sculpture Plinth, Ted Mack Civic Park, North Sydney (solo).
2021 PROJECT 2060: Homeward Bound, Arts & Culture North Sydney.
AT11, Articulate Project Space, Marrickville, Sydney.
Hall and Wilcox Art Prize and Emerging Artist Exhibition, Hall and Wilcox, Sydney, Australia.
2020 AT10, Articulate Project Space, Marrickville, Sydney.
Fearless, Studio W, Woolloomooloo, Sydney.
WaxOnWood: exercises in endangered materiality, Articulate Project Space, Marrickville.
2019 Faux Par, Curated by Lisa Patroni, Airspace Gallery, Marrickville, Sydney.
Postgraduate Exhibition, National Art School Gallery, Sydney.
2018 Rhizomatic, LS Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
Art and It’s Making, The Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Bondi, Sydney.
Residencies
2023 Waverley Artist Studio’s, Bondi, Sydney.
2022 Sherwood Studio, Randwick, Sydney. (Philanthropic funding).
2020 & 2021 Coal Loader Artist in Residence, Arts & Culture North Sydney.
2014 Intersects Arts LaB, Woolloomooloo and East Sydney.
2008 Lennox St Studios, Newtown, Sydney. (NAS - BFA painting prize).
Text and mentions
2024 Ekphrasis // Ekphrasis, Slings and arrows of outrage, Zoe Marni Roberson, Jan, 2024.
2023 @australian.artists gram by Siena White, 6 July 2023.
2023 Farr St by Clare Wigney, mentioned,@dither_art, 12 June, 2023.
Art Facilitator / Educator
2010 - Present Waverley Woollahra Art School, Bondi - Painting and drawing.