‘By knowingly drawing on the specificities (and occasional eccentricities) of museum systems and display, Phelps’ work creates a space of possibilities and “what ifs”; a place where we hear whispers not declarations, and where the information we receive is a starting point, but not everything. In her own unique way, she is a champion of the unseen and largely unrecognised realm of collecting and collections; encouraging us, through her work, to appreciate the role of objects in our scientific and cultural knowledge and their centrality to the way in which we come to better understand ourselves and our world.’
Extract from The Secret Life of Objects, by Kelly Gellatly, Founding Director, Agency Untitled