Philippa  Troutman – News, collaborations & new projects

Philippa will be exhibiting new work in a group show at Machpelah works as part of the Hebden Bridge Open Studios 2015. Dates: 3rd 4th and 5th July Time: 11am - 5pm Venue: Machpelah Works, Station Road, Hebden Bridge, HX7 8AU

Ian Duhig has been, to use Lawrence Sterne’s own phrase, “Shandying about” in Yorkshire for Digressions, his collaboration with artist-printmaker, Philippa Troutman. In 2013, the tercentenary of Sterne’s birth, they set out from Shandy Hall, Coxwold in North Yorkshire where The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy was written, to celebrate Sterne’s great work through…

Laurence Sterne’s shaggy-dog novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, published between 1759 and 1767, remains one of most influential of all comic novels in the English language. Commissioned to create a collaborative artwork commemorating the 300 years since Sterne’s birth in 1713, poet Ian Duhig and artist-printmaker Philippa Troutman went on wandering,…

Philippa is currently collaborating with the poet Ian Duhig on a project entitled DIgressions based around Shandy Hall and the legacy of Laurence Sterne. The book resulting from this will be published by Smokestack later this year while exhibitions in London and Yorkshire with readings will commence in the Autumn of 2014. "(from ‘The White…

A F T E R F O R E W O R D Why Afterforeword? Well, I felt this was a hybrid of a foreword and afterword, coming up with this Germanic-sounding compound as a solution. I also thought so much prose before the body of poetry and art here would deter some readers, while…

Philippa will be exhibiting artwork at the MA 21 Anniversary Exhibition at Dean Clough, Halifax This exhibition is opening in September 2014