Philippa Blair exhibited regularly throughout her distinguished career, from early career shows in 1970’s New Zealand, to solo exhibitions in New York in the 1980s, and museum exhibitions in Los Angeles throughout the 1990s and 2000s where she also lived for twenty years. Returning to Auckland in 2014, Philippa’s practice was affected and governed by place. Location, relocation, dislocation are themes that she continually mapped and re-mapped in her work, deliberately dislocating the norm to create new two and three dimensional structures. Experimental and improvisational, her work is ironic, autobiographical, instinctive. Engagement with the world is paramount to narrowing down a description for her work. Life experience and art history connect with physiology and motion - where many worlds are conveyed through the dancing line and the high energy of her gestural layered mark making. In 2020, Philippa was the subject of a major survey exhibition at Te Uru Contemporary Gallery, Waitakere. Her work is represented in public and private collections in New Zealand, Australia, USA, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Japan and  Malaysia.

Courtesy of the Philippa Blair Estate. Blair is represented by Orex Gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and PG Gallery192 in Ōtautahi Christchurch.