Artists

Christopher Phillips is a visual artist working from his studio in Marcus Beach on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, Australia. Christopher’s work weaves together diverse cultural, historic, and urban influences into striking, layered compositions..

Christopher creates visually compelling paintings that fuse architectural gravity with emotional resonance. Anchored in the disciplined colour sensibility and compositions borrowed from 18th-century Japanese printmaking, his works balance graphic clarity with atmospheric depth. Through works titled Tate Modern, London and Vroenhoven Bridge, Belgium, Phillips invokes specific spatial references—urban landmarks rendered through layered textures that blur recognition and abstraction..

The structural underpinnings of mid-century brutalist and modernist architecture scaffold his dynamic surfaces, while the raw energy of graffiti and street art textures infuse them with immediacy. Phillips navigates the quiet undercurrents of Hopper-like realism—painting atmospheres where emotion simmers beneath the surface. Across his works, a palpable tension unfolds between memory and material, solitude and structure, inviting us to step into a world where architecture and emotion coalesce in poised stillness..

Christopher completed an Advanced Diploma in Printing and Graphic Art at Melbourne’s RMIT and was awarded DUX in 2001. He went on to work as a graphic artist and photographer for companies such as SBS, L'Oréal, Vogue Living, The London Symphony Orchestra and later working as an Art Director for Google for 7 years..

Christopher’s photographic commissions include portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, Sir David Attenborough and Ian Thorpe. During this period Christopher continued to exhibit and take on commissions for his personal work exhibiting in London, Sydney and Melbourne..

Christopher’s work is held in private collections and has appeared in national and international publications including Vogue Living, Australian GQ, Bell Magazine (AU), W Magazine (US), Delux Digital (UK), Culture Magazine (AU), 1883 Digital (UK), Monster Children (AU) Marie Claire (AU)