Ian Phillips-McLaren is a British artist and photographer whose multidisciplinary practice blends analogue photography, alternative processes, and mixed media—including gum bichromate, painting, sculpture, and sound. ↓↓↓ or ↑↑↑
Craft. Vision. Legacy.
Interdisciplinary Artist / Photographer / Educator
Exploring identity, memory, and material through photography, painting, and process.
British artist and educator working across photography, painting, and printmaking, exploring memory, identity, and the materiality of image-making.
Through projects such as A Moment’s Existence and Fractured Whispers, I fuse analogue and mixed-media processes to create layered narratives — tracing transformation, mortality, and the unseen connections between the physical and the symbolic.
Fractured Whispers / In the heart of these ancient Celtic / Atlantic rainforest’s is where the veil between the worlds is thinnest! I can almost hear the murmurs of bygone tales, resonating through the ages and igniting the imagination of bards and storytellers. Each branch tells a story, every leaf
The ‘Self’ & The ‘Other’ / This ongoing series of self-portraits explores the construction of identity through the lens of ancient Roman portraiture. Blending self-portrait photography with classical references and draws on theories of the self and the other — exploring how identity is shaped through cultural ideals, memory, and inherited visual
Beyond The Edge / The inception of Beyond The Edge came about spontaneously one New Year’s morning during breakfast when a thunderstorm breezed in. I was already gearing myself up over coffee, ready to embrace whatever new creative possibilities that this New Year had in store for me. The dramatic
Rooted in analogue photography, alternative printing, and hand-made materials, my practice embraces process, precision, and the enduring magic of physical image-making.
Through photography, painting, sculpture, and sound, I explore memory, transformation, and perception — often shaped by myth, Jungian theory, and material experimentation.
I offer mentoring & workshops in analogue processes, salt printing, and creative development.
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