GHOST OF A GOOD THING

Tom Phillips (born 25 May 1937) is an English artist. He was born in London, where he continues to work. He is a painter, printmaker and collagist. He is best know for his A Humument:  A Treated Victorian Novel, it won an award for best for best innovation of Rivers. Phillips randomly purchased a novel called “A Human Document" by Victorian author William Hurrell Mallock and created art from its pages.

He paints, collages or draws over the pages, leaving some of the text peeking through in serpentine bubble shapes, creating a “found” text with it’s own story, different from its original. Several editions of A Humument have been published over the years, with more and more pages being revised each time.