Phil Constable was born in Canterbury, Kent in 1971. A graduate from BA Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University and MA Creative Technologies at The University of Salford. Constable was part of a team employed by The University of Salford to research virtual spaces and how they can be used in the real. After graduation Constable worked in the Design Industry with companies such as Amaze and Guardian Media Group, and has been exhibiting work nationally and internationally in various mediums; printing, painting, new media, and installation work. At present Constable is Director of Adorn Creatives; a collective of artists developing and producing bespoke interior designs and installations, through innovative approach to creative business thinking. He is also an Associate Lecturer at Manchester School of Art in Fine Art.

Interval's Curatorial Approach: Trade City

For TradeCity Interval presents three works that each introduce through their conceptual approach an alternative view on cities of trade; located in the three cities of Manchester, London and Beijing, the works reference Italo Calvino’s Trading Cities chapters in the book Invisible Cities. Interval is interested in the merging of identities of such global metropolises’ and how local nuances can be extracted and revealed through artistic practice.
 
The work of Daniel Staincliffe, the result of a recent residency in Beijing, collects and re-presents fragments of the city’s customs and traditions through relevant forms of display. Butler and Kyprianou’s One Lime Street, located in the iconic glass lifts of the Lloyds Building at the heart of London’s financial district, engages the viewer in a multi-layered dialogue with individuals as they move vertically through through the building. Phil Constable’s work builds layers of captured cityscapes, adapting and augmenting them in the form of hand printed graffiti on the walls of buildings. For TradeCity Constable has developed a performative method of working that will see the out-of--reach areas within the exhibition space publicly transformed into a new skyline.