Ian Phillips-McLaren
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| Born | June 13, 1960 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Education | MA Fine Art, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University |
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Ian Phillips-McLaren (born 13 June 1960) is a British photographer and educator. He has worked in both commercial and fine-art photography and has been profiled in photography magazines including Practical Photography, Digital Photographer and Amateur Photographer. He lectures in photography and fine art at London Metropolitan University and the Cambridge School of Art.
Early life and career
Phillips-McLaren began his photographic career in Glasgow in the mid-1980s, working initially under the professional name Ian Phillips. He later adopted the hyphenated surname Phillips-McLaren following a misprint in a local magazine and used this name throughout his early commercial practice.
During this period he worked in commercial photography, producing portrait and fashion imagery, and was responsible for the photography for Holding Back the River, the 1989 album by the band Wet Wet Wet.
In 1992 he relocated to London, began using his full name professionally, and gradually shifted his focus toward fine-art photography and education.[1]
Fine art practice
Phillips-McLaren’s work has been included in exhibitions focused on alternative and hybrid photographic processes. In 2022 his gum bichromate print Gwen – “Did I Want To Be Here?” was shown in Squaring the Circles of Confusion: Neo-Pictorialism in the 21st Century, an exhibition held at the Royal Photographic Society. The exhibition was reviewed in publications including The Lancashire Times and Northern Soul.[2][3][4]
In 2024 his work was included in The Art of Gum Bichromate, an international exhibition at Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles presenting contemporary practitioners working with the nineteenth-century gum bichromate process.[5]
He has also exhibited in the United Kingdom and internationally, including at the Venice Experimental Video and Performance Art Festival (2023)[6] and Future Now at the Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge School of Art.[7]
His project Fractured Whispers was featured in Studies in Photography (Winter 2024).[8]
Career and coverage
Phillips-McLaren’s commercial and fine-art photography has been the subject of extended coverage in photography magazines and professional journals.
In 1989 he was the subject of A Style of One’s Own, an educational film produced by the BBC while he was artist-in-residence at the Glasgow School of Art.[9]
In June 2007 he was profiled in Practical Photography in a seven-page feature by Ben Hawkins, which traced his career from early work in Glasgow to commercial portraiture.[10]
He was later featured on the cover of F2 Freelance Photographer (Vol. 6 No. 2, 2011) in an eight-page profile by David Land, which discussed his work in celebrity portraiture and professional practice.[11]
In 2022 his gum bichromate print Gwen – “Did I Want To Be Here?” was reviewed by curator Zelda Cheatle in her Final Analysis column for Amateur Photographer, in the context of Squaring the Circles of Confusion at the Royal Photographic Society.[12]
Teaching
Phillips-McLaren lectures in photography and fine art at London Metropolitan University and the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, and previously taught at the Glasgow School of Art.[13]
References
- ↑ "MA Fine Art Directory – Ian Phillips-McLaren". Anglia Ruskin University. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
- ↑ "Squaring The Circles Of Confusion – Royal Photographic Society". Lancashire Times. 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
Review praising Ian Phillips-McLaren's Gwen as the standout image of the Royal Photographic Society exhibition.
- ↑ "Squaring the Circles of Confusion – Royal Photographic Society". Royal Photographic Society. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
- ↑ "Squaring the Circles of Confusion – Scarborough Museums". Scarborough Museums and Galleries. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
- ↑ "The Art of Gum Bichromate". Duncan Miller Gallery. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
- ↑ "Venice Experimental Video and Performance Art Festival 2023". ItsLiquid. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
- ↑ "Future Now – Ruskin Gallery". Anglia Ruskin University. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
- ↑ "Studies in Photography – Winter 2024". Studies in Photography. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
- ↑ "A Style of One's Own – BBC Educational Archive". Educational Recording Agency (ERA). Retrieved 9 November 2025.
- ↑ Hawkins, Ben (June 2007). "Jumping to the Beat". Practical Photography. Bauer Media Group. pp. 108–115.
- ↑ Land, David (2011). "Ian Phillips-McLaren". F2 Freelance Photographer. Vol. 6, no. 2. Feature Photo Supplies Ltd. pp. 34–41. ISSN 1754-0615.
- ↑ Cheatle, Zelda (6 October 2022). "Final Analysis: 'Gwen, "Did I Want To Be Here?"' by Ian Phillips-McLaren". Amateur Photographer. p. 66.
- ↑ "Fine Art – Postgraduate Study". Anglia Ruskin University. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
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