Phil Ashcroft is an artist based in London. He studied at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and has exhibited internationally in group exhibitions and art fairs including Scope Basel with Monika Bobinska, London (2008) and Out of the Box, New Art Gallery, Walsall as part of their Garman Ryan Permanent Collection (2007-08).

Solo exhibitions include Toxicity, Margaret Harvey Gallery, UH Galleries, St Albans (2006) and Nitro Deluxe, Deptford X, London (2001). Ashcroft was a Finalist in the Celeste Art Prize in 2007 and selected for Contemporary Art Society’s ARTfutures in 2007, 2005 and 2004. He is participating in the forthcoming group exhibition The Golden Record, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.

Combining influences from abstract expressionism, British landscape painting, Japanese woodcuts, and graphic street art, Ashcroft integrates varied visual styles to generate a crossover between space, object and environment.

Ashcroft also exhibits as PhlAsh in group shows with the Scrawl Collective, collaborating on live-painting projects in galleries and alternative spaces from street locations to shops. These have included Special Relationship, Scion, Los Angeles (2008), Elephant Technique, Village Underground (2006), All The People We Like Are Dead, London (2004), and Graffiti Meets Windows 1, Hank-Yu Department Store, Osaka (2002).