This series of work is a reflection on the noisy cacophony of our contemporary urban world and the way it privileges some issues at the expense of others.

The starting point for this composition was the cafe in St Kevin's Arcade with a view over the Central Business District. It explores the disconnect we often have from the forces shaping our lives as we enjoy a cup of coffee.

Armed and helmeted figures, helicopters and an urban landscape form the foreground in contrast with a sweeping New Zealand landscape beyond.

The development of this piece of work was an opportunity to research and reflect on how surveillance and the collection and world-wide distribution of personal information transforms the way we think of ourselves.

In keeping with other work in this series, this piece reflects on the role of global media organizations such as Murdoch's media empire in shaping perspectives on ourselves and our world.

This piece reflects on events such as the 1974-6 dawn raids which have been described as 'the most blatantly racist attack on Pacific peoples by the New Zealand government in New Zealand's history'.

The voices of ordinary people are often submerged by the cacophony of noise produced by mainstream media. A major theme throughout Phill's entire career has been to talk with and help to give form to the lives of workers.

During his time living in Grey Lynn, an inner city suburb of Auckland, Phill has seen first hand how the gentrification of older working class communities pushes minorities such as Maori and Pacific peoples out of the homes they have lived in for generations.

This drawing uses multiple perspectives to contemplate how the complexity of urban environments can overwhelm and isolate individuals.

Underpinning this series is a wish to pick up on forms of figuration and kinds of subject matter that have often been sidelined by the mainstream art world and by the commercialization of art practices during the 20th century.

The individual in this charcoal study is isolated from both the natural and urban landscapes that form the rest of the composition. In the context of the concerns of this series. is it a comment on the impact of social isolation experienced by many minorities in contemporary society or a reflection on a more personal sense of marginalization of his own practice?

A CEO, banker or employer stands in a dominating position in the foreground of this charcoal composition forcing perspectives on urban life, rural life and the natural environment into the background.