Philip Ewe’s practice spans live performance, film, photography and installation.
Ewe's projects are often in and about public (and not-so-public) spaces, channelling the rapidly redeveloping city and its attendant mental states. His live performances, which combine scripted text and improvisation, draw on the process of socialisation — the voices and messages involved in the internalisation of social norms and ideologies. Using his voice, choreographed and everyday movement, props, lighting and sound effects, Ewe merges the conditions of the city with the conditions of the self, rematerialising them in a live zone of collective expulsion and
catharsis with an audience.
Recent work includes Confessions / what is in this room and why do you want it? (2026),
St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican, London; The Fourth Wall, a solo exhibition at Strange Field,
Glasgow (2024), featuring the performance A to Z and installations ‘Cues’, My Bedroom and
Act I; Highs & Lows / Doppelgangers (2024), performed at the Royal Academy of alongside
Marina Abramović: A Retrospective; and the ongoing London Land series (2018–present) of
site-responsive performances staged across South East London.
Since 2023, Ewe has also run The Legal Stage, an artist-led performance platform inside the
former Lambeth County Courthouse.