Phillip Alder

King Street Gallery, 30 King Street,
Carmarthen SA31 1BS
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Dark Edge
'Dark Edge', 2004
oil, 24"x31"


Personal Profile

Phillip Alder was born in 1951 in London. He studied economics and fine and applied art at Hull College of Education from 1970 to 1973 where he mixed with a group of young, mainly figurative artists, but was largely mentored by Mike Chiltern associated with the 'Leicester School' or 'Inner Imagists'. Phil Alder later studied art history with the Open University.

He moved to Carmarthen in 1975 seeking to exorcise what he had learnt in Hull: joining the lively arts scene associated with Dyfed College of Art and the Artists and Designers in Wales Organisation and writing about art for the welsh arts press.



He taught part time at Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art from 1997 until 1988 when he became Dyfed County Council Arts Officer. He began to show less frequently and ceased being represented by Attic Gallery, West Wales Arts Centre and Arts for Offices. Since 1996 he has been Carmarthenshire County Council Arts Manager.

His work has always been inspired by a reverence for nature, its revelations and our place in its order. In her essay on the artist, 'Spirit of Place' published 1987, Ann Dorsett wrote: 'his response to the local landscape metamorphoses constantly…….in his [personal] response [to nature] he pours his feelings for history, legend, religion, socialism and family into his work'.

Menalith
'Menalith', 2004
oil, 28"x40"

Flight into Egypt
'Flight into Egypt', 2003-4
oil, 24"x36"

St.Mary's, Kidwelly
'St.Mary's, Kidwelly', 1988
watercolour, 22"x30"


selected exhibitions:

  • Hull Ferens Art Gallery Feren's Winter Exhibition. 1972, 1973, 1975.
  • Hull Hull Arts Centre. Phillip Alder 1976.
  • Haverfordwest Mixed Arts Co-operative 1st Ehibition 1976.
  • Carmarthen Library Phillip Alder. Work in Progress. ( West Wales Arts ) 1977.
  • Wales Tour Blue to 100 Welsh Group /Welsh Arts Council. 1977
  • Carmarthen. Carmarthen Museum Phil Alder, Dave Crawford, Sally Moss 1978.
  • Carmarthen Arts Festival. Artists in Wales. 1979.
  • National Eisteddfod 1980, 1993.
  • West Wales Tour, Carmarthen Further Education Centre, Torch Theatre Milford Haven. Phillip Alder 1982
  • Wales Tour. Welsh Group / Welsh Arts Council. Wales 1983 Cymru
  • Cardiff Tisch Beer Gallery, Christmas Exhibition 1985
  • South Wales Tour Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Llanover Hall Arts Centre. Cardiff. 'Jack in the Green' Phil Alder. 1988
  • Wrexham Wrexham Arts Centre Myths and Monuments Phillip Alder and Lorna Green.1988.
  • West Wales Tour Oriel Henri Thomas, Carmarthen , Library Gallery Haverfordwest Hiving a Swarm. Phillip Alder. 1988.
  • Llanelli Neville Gallery Arhyd Cwmgwili. Phil Alder. 1989.
  • Hereford City Museum and Art Gallery. Paintings of a Valley and Jack in the Green. Phil Alder. 1989
  • Swansea Swansea Arts Workshop Welsh Landscape 1990.

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