Benni Phillips-Nozdrachev, Pitkospuut (detail), 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.
Benni Phillips-Nozdrachev
Gallery 1
Friday 4 October - Sunday 27 October
Opening Thursday 3 October 2024, 6pm - 8pm
inanimate objects. witnesses. absorbing action. like a sponge. multi layered banks. abstract information. own versions of existing. social somethings. the weather. patterns. noises. minerals. feeling. ghosts. stories. smells. treasure. signs. varied air. instincts. in syncs. moments in time. wild realisations. wired relations. internal reactions. order. disorder. some things that have been outside for a little while. small things that leave dirt in your pocket.
About the Artist
Benni Phillips-Nozdrachev (b.1982) is a multidisciplinary artist from Ngarigo country (Numeralla, Cooma) based in Helsinki. After relocating to Melbourne from 2002-2012, he has been living and working in Europe over the past eleven years. In Germany from 2013-2017 (Platten, Dusseldorf, Giessen) and in Finland from 2018-2024 (Joutsa, Helsinki).
In his practice, Phillips-Nozdrachev uses walking and gathering found objects as a conscious way to investigate and connect with small details of ordinary things. Fragments of broken, lost and abandoned objects are collected and concocted as marks of time. By using a variety of this stockpiled material, his work merges into a cycle of order and disorder while exploring alternate perceptions within a direct environment.
Phillips-Nozdrachev is self taught. His work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and symposiums in Finland, Germany, Estonia, Italy, Canada and Australia. Including Alvar Aalto Museum (Jyvaskyla), Galleria Forum Box (Helsinki), Parnu City Gallery (Estonia). His work is included in public and private collections internationally, including a public sculpture commission in 2019 in Joutsa, Finland. In 2024, Phillips became a member of the Finnish Painters Union.
