I divide my time between working at University and working in the studio or on site, on commissions and projects that have taken me to America, Australia, Canada, Czech Republic and Singapore amd more locally Derbyshire or Shropshire.
A member of AiR, AXIS, the research group Land 2, and a Fellow of the HEA.
Employment
| 2011 – | Principal Lecturer | Artist Designer: Maker, Cardiff School of Art & Design |
| 2003 – 2011 | Senior Lecturer | Contemporary Textile Practice, Cardiff School of Art & Design |
| 2013 – 2016 | External Examiner | Drawing and Applied Arts, UWE, Bristol |
| 2004 – 2013 | Associate Lecturer | MA & BA Contemporary Art Practice, Plymouth University |
| 2001 – 2003 | Freelance Project Manager | Wales Arts international and Artworks Wales Working on Wales @ Venice Biennale and Cywaith Cymru’s Public Art Commissioning Programme |
Education:
1991-1993 MA in Printmaking Royal College of Art
1987-1990 1st Class BA (Hons) Printmaking, Norwich School of Art
Awards and Commissions:
| 2015 | Get Started Award, Cardiff Metropolitan university – to research the language of making of threatened Craft Industries |
| 2013 -14 | AiRx, Artists Exchange Residency and exhibition between Singapore and UK Collaborative project through Singapore International Foundation and British Council, working with architect Randy Chan on a work for Singapore Botanic Gardens. |
| 2013 | SEED funding to research the textile industry in Bradford and Saltaire Research and exhibition in which I studied the lost language and dying textile trade in Bradford. |
| 2013 | ‘Darning the Land: Sewn’, Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury Invitation to research the textile archive, design the carpet bed & a 470m planting of wild flowers. |
| 2012 | HEFCW SIP to develop links with Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury |
| 2011 | ‘Bound V-57’, Nature Unframed, Morton Arboretum |
| 2011 | ‘Darning the Land: Seam’, re-place main commission for Derbyshire |
| 2011 | ‘Barcode FB814’, Mortimer Forest, ACE Rural Commissioning Programme |
| 2009-10 | ‘Bound, Croft’, Tell it to the Trees, Croft Castle, Meadow Arts Commission |
| 2008 | Welsh Artist of the Year. St Davids Hall, Cardiff |
| 2006 | Production Grant for Solo Exhibition, Arts Council of Wales |
| 2003 | Commission for Explorations, National Botanic Garden of Wales |
| 2003 | Creative Wales Award. Arts Council of Wales |
| 2000 | Individual Artists’ Bursary, Arts Council of Wales |
| 1998 | Oppenheim John-Downes Memorial Award |
| 1993 | IBM Art in Technology Award |
| 1992 | Henry Moore Foundation Scholarship, Royal College of Art |
Selected Exhibitions:
| 2014-5 | Angles of Incidence | Singapore Botanic Garden and Inner Temple, London |
| 2014 | A Million Trees for New York | Grand Central Station and High Line, New York, USA |
| 2014 | Encounters at the Edge of the Forest | University of Illinois, Chicago, USA |
| 2013 | Cloth & Memory {2} | Salts Mill, Saltaire |
| 2012 | Sub-Woofer with Ancient and Modern | curated by Sacha Waldron, Spike Island |
| 2011-12 | Bite-Size | DAJF London, ‘GalleryGallery’, Kyoto, Nagoya University |
| 2011 | Nature Unframed | Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois |
| 2010 | Celebrating Paper | Royal West Academy, Bristol |
| 2010 | From Within the Bungalow | Pill, Bristol Group show of 12 invited artists |
| 2007-13 | Spike Open | Open Studios Spike Island, Bristol |
| 2009 -10 | Tell it to the Trees | Croft Castle, Leominster |
| 2008 | Land | Wales Millennium Centre |
| 2008 | Welsh Artist of the Year – Award | St David’s Hall, Cardiff |
| 2008 | Through the Lens | Royal Welsh Academy, Bristol |
| 2006-7 | Philippa Lawrence | Oriel Davies, Newtown, Glynn Vivian, Swansea |
| 2006 | Sense in Place | Site-ations. Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 2005 | Reiko Aoyagi & Philippa Lawrence | House of Art, Cseke Budejovice, Czech Republic |
| 2004 | Anima | B312, Montreal, Canada & G39, Cardiff, UK |
| 2004 | Mostyn Open 2004 | Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno |
| 2003 | Explorations | National Botanic Garden of Wales |
| 2003 | Insiders | Oriel Davies and tour |
| 2002 | Like Gold Dust | Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham |
| 2002 | Ffresh 3 | Chapter & G39, Cardiff |
| 2001 | Glow | Glynn Vivian, Swansea |
| 2001 | Glow | Art Space, Sydney, Australia |
| 2000 | In Our Hands | ’5th International Soft Sculpture Exhibition’ Kyoto, Japan |
| 2000 | Purchase Prize | (Visitors Choice), University of Glamorgan |
| 1999 | Not for Sale | Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff |
| 1996-8 | Art Textiles 1 | Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery & tour |
| 1996-8 | Revelation | Maidstone Gallery & Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan |