TOM PHILLIPS (b. 1937) FLYING MAN (1983) Inscribed final proof and signed screen print 84 x 63cm From the series of Nine Screen Prints on Dante's Inferno shown at Waddington Graphics in 1983. This print is number 8 in the series. Phillips attended St Catherine's College, Oxford, reading English while also studying drawing at the Ruskin School. He went to Camberwell School of Art in 1961, and later went on to teach at the Bath Academy of Art, Ipswich and Wolverhampton Art College. He has been chairman of the Royal Academy's Exhibitions Committee since 1995. He is a member of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers and Engravers, an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's, Oxford. He is also a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and of the British Museum. The Bodleian Library acquired his version of Dante Alighieri's Inferno in 2007 for £18,000, which included a number of proofs, trial sheets and other archive materials. The then-Keeper of Western Manuscripts and Special Collections described the acquisition as "one of the greatest Artists' Books of the 20th century".