Philip Hoare

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Philip Hoare
Born
Patrick K. Moore

1958 (age 65–66)
Southampton, England, UK
OccupationWriter
WebsitePhilip Hoare's homepage

Philip Hoare (born Patrick Kevin Philip Moore, 1958) is a British writer, film-maker and curator.

In 2009, he exhibited artworks made with artist Angela Cockayne at Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc in London.[1]

Hoare has written many articles on whales, including one on the orca 'attacks' off the Iberian Peninsula in 2023 [2]. He has also recorded podcasts for NPR, VICE and Al Jazeera [3]. His curatorial work includes Derek Jarman's Modern Nature [4]; and he contributed to the V&A's international touring exhibition, David Bowie Is [5].

As a writer, Hoare has also represented the British Council in Berlin, Guadalajara, and Moscow [6] [7] [8].

Hoare is Special Ambassador for Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Visiting Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown and lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence [9].

2009 Samuel Johnson Prize[edit]

Hoare was the winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize, now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, for his work Leviathan, or the Whale [10]. The book, which charts a personal and societal fascination with whales, met critical acclaim [11] [12]. Jonathan Mirsky, writing for Literary Review, praised Hoare's poignancy and awe ("Whales defy gravity, occupy other dimensions; they live in a medium that would overwhelm us, and which far exceeds our earthly sway moving through a world we know nothing about"), as well as his ability to draw in the broader significance of whaling to the foundations of American capitalism ("it was as if the antediluvian beasts had to die in order to assert the modern world") [13].

Works[edit]

Hoare is the author of 11 works of non-fiction:

  • Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990)
  • Noël Coward: A Biography (1995)
  • Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the First World War (1997)
  • Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2000), the story of Netley Hospital in Southampton
  • The Ghosts of Netley (2004)
  • England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005), about Mary Anne Girling and the New Forest Shakers
  • Leviathan or, The Whale (2008), which won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction
  • The Whale: In Search Of The Giants Of The Sea (2010)
  • The Sea Inside (2013)
  • RisingTideFallingStar (2017)
  • Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World (2021)[a]

He has also edited The Sayings of Noël Coward (1997).

Hoare has co-authored or contributed to the following publications:

  • Essay on the evolution of class in the UK in a British Council pamphlet, Posh: The Evolution of the Traditional British Brand (ed. Sorrel Hershberg, 1999).
  • An essay in Linder: Works 1976–2006 (2006), a collection about Linder Sterling.
  • Gabriel Orozco (2006), exhibition catalogue and texts, with Mark Godfrey.
  • Pet Shop Boys (2006), catalogue and texts, with Chris Heath.
  • Introduction to David Austen (2007) (eds. Emma Dean and Michael Stanley).
  • Foreword to Made in Southampton (2008), a box-set of prints.
  • Provenance (2010), with Angela Cockayne, a response to Wunderkammen.
  • Essay, "Something against nothing", in Tania Kovats (2011) (ed. Jeremy Millar).
  • Dominion: A Whale Symposium (2012) (eds. Hoare and Angela Cockayne).
  • Essay in Malicious Damage: the Defaced Library Books of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton (2013), (ed. Ilsa Colsell).
  • Essay in Southampton: A City Lost ... And Found (2013), a collection of drawings by Eric Meadus.
  • Record of a discussion between Hoare, Christopher Frayling and Mark Kermode on David Bowie's cultural impact, in David Bowie is the subject (2013) (eds. Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh).
  • Greetings from Darktown : an illustrator's miscellany, a collection of the work of Jonny Hannah, with texts by Hoare, Sheena Calvert and Peter Chrisp (2014).
  • Foreword to As is the sea (2014), writing by students from the Royal College of Art (ed. Jessie Bond).
  • Another Green World – Linn Botanic Gardens: Encounters with a Scottish Arcadia (2015), photographs by Alison Turnbull, text by Hoare.

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Notes
  1. ^ Briefly reviewed in the May 31, 2021 issue of The New Yorker, p.63.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "VIKTOR WYND FINE ART INC". viktorwyndfineart.co.uk. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Philip Hoare | the Guardian". TheGuardian.com.
  3. ^ https://coastalstudies.org/news/napis-lecture-series-to-resume-jan-24-with-author-philip-hoare/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ "Derek Jarman's Modern Nature".
  5. ^ "David Bowie is: | Deluxe Hardback Exhibition Book | V&A Shop".
  6. ^ "Philip Hoare - Literature".
  7. ^ https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/how-made-career-out-of-whale-watching. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^ "Philip Hoare talking about his work at #BritLitBerlin 2015". YouTube. 23 February 2015.
  9. ^ "Philip Hoare - Literature".
  10. ^ Brown, Mark (30 June 2009). "'Classic' study of whales wins Samuel Johnson prize". The Guardian.
  11. ^ "Review: Leviathan or, the Whale by Philip Hoare". 3 October 2008.
  12. ^ Brown, Mark (30 June 2009). "'Classic' study of whales wins Samuel Johnson prize". The Guardian.
  13. ^ "Jonathan Mirsky - Animals Before the Fall".

External links[edit]

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