ABOUT THE IMAGES
Each inimitable frame reflects a moment in time, its source extracted from nature and through a process of photographic osmosis, movement and light are dispersed painterly amidst the frame.
Exerts below from Essay on Fourteen
The Images explore the possibilities of abstraction to communicate a sense of something beyond the frame.
Their long exposures, brooding sense of colour and choreographed trails of light evoke feelings more than describe forms...at times sombre and contemplative, at others, restless, bristling, exuberant.
Phill’s technique relinquishes control over the image, opening a space for something to show up.
There is a subtle sense of something shared here.
Emil McAvoy. 2020
PHILL PRENDEVILLE
At the age of 21, Phill set out on what would become a lifetime career in Film, Television and Photography.
Learning his trade in the Film industry, he then moved to ‘one man band’ documentary making, covering war, famine, triumph and tragedy at home and around the globe.
Whilst raising a family he worked as a’ 60 Minutes’ Television producer and annually took on projects for an international children’s charity and worked for many years making TV commercials and documentaries in the poorest regions of India and Africa.
Whilst the moving image was the predominant format, everywhere Phill went he had his stills camera with him, using it initially to tell others stories and then with the loss of his Father…his own.
Whilst continuing to make international television documentaries he is equally passionate in the pursuit of searching for and creating powerful, provocative abstract images and uses them to help raise funds for The Umu Foundation, a charity he established to help ex-child soldiers in Sierra Leone.
Phill's first photographic exhibition was in August 2020 … ‘Fourteen’. which was a tribute to his Fathers passing, his own grieving process and a celebration of ensuing life.
For no apparent reason, the driving denominator for the ‘Fourteen’ exhibition.. was given to denominations of seven, a sonnet with 14 lines was composed, 14 images were exhibited with only seven of any image to be reproduced, all sale prices were calculated on calculations that were divisible by seven…and for no real reason, except that it feels right, that status quo remains.
