“Phillips skillfully highlighted the dialogue between form and shape and the relationships between art and its surroundings…The piece entitled no.42 – 2015 is an outstanding work, which will now feature permanently in the Embassy of Brazil’s Art Collection.”

VIA Art Prize 2017 judging panel

“Susan Phillips’ works have an intriguing capacity of employing simple forms to examine the very grounds of perception and evoke a sense of potential and possibility. In her investigations, she emphasizes reinvention and change, rather than fixed, concrete results. In this respect, she corroborates Brazilian poet and art critic Ferreira Gullar in his defense of an art which saw shape, space and colours as “not [belonging] to this or that artistic language, but to the living and indeterminate experience of man”, and was able to create a transcendental visual language with simplicity.”

Marcio Junji Sono, Embassy of Brazil, London, 2018

“…I really like this piece by Susan Phillips…I would definitely buy it.  It is for me the standout part of this exhibition.”

Will Gompertz, art critic, BBC – Eisteddfod 2016