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Joshua Phillips


Selected Works
    1. with a heathbeat of profound emotion, I awoke
    2. Studies in Rigidity
    3. An Academy by Lamplight
    4. (2016-2018)

Restoration Works
I.    Apartment
II.   Stone (Ramalhete)
III.  Fragments
IIII. (exhibition)

Works in Progress
    1. The Stonebreaker
    2. A Philosophical Lecture

Dictionary of Received Ideas 
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The Stonebreaker (After Brett), 2023






The boy is cut off from the idyllic landscape (Garden of Eden) in which he sits beneath (Hickox and Payne, 1995)

Connotations of stone breaking as a symbol of poverty and exploitation (Hickox and Payne, 1995)


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The Stonebreaker is set in the valley where the River Mole cuts through the North Downs


Critics of Brett regarded the painting as an idyllic scene in which the boy expressed a healthy zeal: 

“this is how England’s happiest spots should be painted”