Philip Jack Bray is a queer, disabled artist, working with textiles, embroidery and ceramics.

Discouraged as a child from pursuing art as a means of self expression, he found work in theatre instead and had a successful twenty year career backstage, working in marketing, PR, administration and producing in prestigious London and regional venues.

He organised the first ever sign language interpreted performance in the history of London’s West End and went on to champion the rights and talents of disabled actors and theatre artists.

He eventually away from the arts to work with disability and LGBTQI+ charities. He was a diversity advisor to the executive of Transport for London, to the Metropolitan Police and the Association of Chief Police Officers, amongst others.

A passion for food then led to him owning and running two award-winning restaurants in Sussex, England, as the self-taught chef/patron.

A chance encounter with clay led him to find comfort and recovery from a period of trauma and abuse through creativity. He now makes and exhibits pots and textile works that address his lived experience as a disabled queer man and that reflects the history and struggles of LGBTQI+ and disabled people.

Philip is a published writer and has contributed to disability and transport publications and devised and wrote a music documentary series for BBC Radio Two.

Philip lives and works with Percy, his Battersea Dogs Home rescue Jack Russell Terrier, from their home and pottery studio in the Sussex countryside, and enjoys theatre, tailoring, opera, gardening, Rufus Wainwright, food, jazz, queer history, the visual arts, haberdashery and Murder She Wrote