Phil Dadson ONZM is a transdisciplinary artist, musician/composer and improviser, whose practice spans some 50 years. He is the founder of the acclaimed music/performance group From Scratch. He was a lecturer in Intermedia at the Elam School of Fine Arts from 1977 to 2001, when he left to take up full-time art practice. He is a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate, and has been awarded an Antarctic Artist Fellowship and a grant from the Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust. Dadson lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and is represented by Trish Clark Gallery.