About

Philip Trenerry is a Dartmoor-based Illustrator and Lecturer. His work is concerned with the folklore of the moor and the dangers of the edgelands.

Inspired by a visceral childhood connection with the local area, Philip interweaves memory and fabrication with traditional Dartmoor legends, in an attempt to haunt the viewer, reader and visitor. The cautionary tale is a reoccurring motif within Philip’s work, which he attributes to his consumption of public information films and children’s television from the 1970s and 80s.

Philip is obsessed with skateboarding, and likes to combine hauntological footage with skatepark clips and Instagram captions, in order to build narratives around his recreational adventures. He sees this process as an extension of his illustration practice, and a way of emulating the prevelent use of non-sequitur montage within skateboard media during the 1990s.

Philip teaches Illustration at Arts University Plymouth, working with undergraduates across a range of units. In 2010 he co-founded Pylon Press, a shared framework for students, academics and practitioners who want to investigate authorial avenues and independent publishing within their Illustration practice.

Contact:
contact@philiptrenerry.co.uk

Links:
Instagram
Pylon Press