Biography
Philip Eglin (b. Gibraltar, UK 1959) studied at North Staffordhsire Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, London under Sir Eduardo Palozzi. He won the prestigious Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts in 1996. His solo exhibitions include Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (2021); Marsden Woo Gallery, London (2020) and Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (2019). Group exhibitions include artgenéve, Geneva, Switzerland (2022); Crafts Council, London (2021) and Oxford Cermaics Gallery (2020). His work is held in numerous public collections internationally including Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; British Council, London; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Eglin is a contemporary ceramicist who works in both the figurative and the abstract, often using elements of graffiti and incorporating found objects as well as referencing mediaeval religious sculpture, English folk ceramics and Staffordshire pottery.
