Heather Phillipson is an artist, poet and musician who lives and works in London. Her work spans – and regularly combines – a range of media, from video, sculpture and installation to audio and web-based projects. Last summer she unveiled her sculpture for the Fourth Plinth Commission in Trafalgar Square, titled THE END: a nine-tonne steel-and-polystyrene swirl of cream garnished with a cherry, a fly and a camera-equipped drone (until spring 2022). Phillipson’s latest work, created for Tate Britain’s annual commission,
will go on view in the Duveen Galleries when museums in the UK reopen.
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Tate Britain Commission: Heather Phillipson RUPTURE NO.1: blowtorching the bitten peach
Heather Phillipson. Photograph by Rory Van Millingen.
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.- Heather Phillipson (b.1978, London) is the next artist to undertake the annual Tate Britain Commission. This major commission is the latest response to the unique architecture and context of the neo-classical Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
Audacious and disconcerting, Heather Phillipsons expansive, multimedia projects include video, sculpture, installation, music, poetry and digital media. Described by the artist as quantum thought-experiments, her works often carry a sense of latent threat a feeling that received ideas, images, and the systems that underpin them may be on the verge of collapse.
Heather Phillipson To Create Next Tate Britain Commission
Heather Phillipson (b.1978, London) will be the next artist to undertake the annual Tate Britain Commission. To be unveiled when the museum reopens, this major commission will be the latest response to the unique architecture and context of the neo-classical Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
Her work tackles pressing contemporary issues in singular and remarkable ways – Alex Farquharson
Audacious and disconcerting, Heather Phillipson’s expansive multimedia projects include video, sculpture, installation, music, poetry and digital media. Described by the artist as ‘quantum thought-experiments, her works often carry a sense of latent threat – a feeling that received ideas, images, and the systems that underpin them may be on the verge of collapse.
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In February 2016, a friend forwarded me an email announcing Tate was looking for Volunteers. I knew very little about Contemporary Art, but Tate was accommodating in teaching us.
I have been a professional photographer since 1985, covering News, PR and Corporate events – Steve Daszko
I was Volunteer Visitor Host at Tate Modern for three years and then switched to Tate Britain, where I still am part of the team.
When the first lockdown started in March last year, Tate, like all Art Galleries, suffered. Towards the end of last year, I decided to undertake my own photo project entitled “Museums and Art Galleries in lockdown”, only shooting images at night, when it became clear that the lockdown was here to stay.