Philip Craig is a UK-based artist investigating synthetic memory, sculptural ritual, and generative image systems through artistic research. Holding an MA (Distinction) from the University of Derby, he produces installations that integrate photographic media, AI-generated hallucinations, and poetic material forms. His work explores how systems can co-author memory, myth, and symbolic structures, manifested through speculative interfaces. Craig combines artistic research with a background in digital systems design to produce critically grounded, media-rich artworks.

Artistic Education

2024–2032 (part-time) PhD Candidate (in progress), University of Derby

Researching AI collaboration, Authorship, Ethics and Myth-Making

2022–2023 MA Arts: Fine Art (Distinction), University of Derby

Final exhibition “Manna, Mother, Other”: installation and generative animation exploring technology as ritual, Other, symbolic interface.

Selected Exhibitions

2024 Did I Imagine This — Solo Exhibition, Banks Mill, Derby-Printed images, digital space, and wooden sculptural interfaces; hallucinated “prosthetic memories” from an imagined birthday; framed as speculative ritual fragments.

2024 Art in the Age of AI — The Gallery, Mayfair, London (Group)

2024 Salon Contemporary Art — Derby Museum of Making (Group)

2024 Robot Day — Coventry College (Selected work for a Multiple University and Technology Companies interested in introducing STEAM in education.)

2023 Manna, Mother, Other — MA Graduate Show, Artcore Gallery, Derby (Group)-Installation of altars, AI-generated GAN animation, and photographic rituals that explore technology as a symbolic Other.

2023 Sculptural — Fox Yard Gallery, Suffolk (Group)

2022 VIABLE — Stryx Gallery, Birmingham (Group)

Awards & Fellowships

2023 — QUAD/FORMAT Fellowship
2023 — Visual Reading Club Award