In 2006 artist Phil Collins created a working office - shady lane productions - for his contribution to the Turner Prize exhibition. Separated by a glass window from the visiting public, the office was operational Monday to Friday 10am - 6pm for the duration of the show. The work utilised the mechanism of the Turner Prize itself as a media spectacle to talk directly to the British public. Staffed by the artist and a team of investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers, shady lane productions invited former participants of daytime and reality television shows to recount their stories at a press conference organised at Café Royal in London. A year on, at Victoria Miro, Collins will present for the first time the various outcomes of the project, creating a video and photographic installation that addresses our ambivalent relationship with the camera as an instrument of promise and betrayal, of truth and deception.

Phil Collins is currently based in Glasgow. Recent solo exhibitions include Austellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster (2007); Forum 59: Phil Collins, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2007), New Work: Phil Collins, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2006); they shoot horses, Tate Britain, London (2006-07); Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (2006); phil collins: they shoot horses, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; and yeah. . . . .you, baby you, Milton Keynes Gallery (2005). Collins was nominated for the 2006 Turner Prize and has a forthcoming solo show at the Dallas Museum of Art in November 2007.