Background
Phillips grew up in the Toronto suburbs of Pickering and Scarborough.
Phillips grew up in the Toronto suburbs of Pickering and Scarborough.
He is best known for his dark complex work with the deep tropes of suicide, sex and self-injury. He has exhibited around the world, and is the subject of various critical texts and interviews. He began writing in 2009, and his published essays are part of his work-in-progress, I Believe in God.
He resided in Vancouver between 2002 and 2013 and currently lives in Ontario.