God Save Philippa!
Philippa’s father, a renowned archeologist, once said that if he could change one sentence in the history books, his life’s purpose would be fulfilled. The ambition and modesty in this wish also apply to his (only) daughter Philippa van Loon. An artist in her gut and soul.
I met Philippa in 1996, then a young woman, who had not long ago completed her BA in sculpture at Chelsea School of Art in London. It was a time in which a group of flamboyant conceptual artists, later known as the Young British Artists, shook the foundations of the established art world. In those days no one knew what the future would have in store. The mentality and thought process of the YBA’s fit perfectly with the Punk movement of the eighties in which the young generation definitively broke, out of so