Heather Phillipson works across video, sculpture, web projects, music, drawing and poetry.
RUPTURE NO 1:
blowtorching the bitten peach, her vast, audiovisual and sculptural commission for the Duveens Galleries at Tate
Britain, runs until January 2022 and THE END, her sculpture for the Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, is up until
July 2022. Other recent commissions include a residency at the digital art festival NEW NOW at Zollverein
Unesco World Heritage site ,Essen, Germany, in 2021, new audio-collages for Radio 3 and Art on the
Underground in 2020, installations for the Shanghai Biennial 2021, Sharjah Biennial 14 and the Martin Gropius
Bau, Berlin, both in 2019, and a major solo show at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, in 2018.
Phillipson is also an award-winning poet and has published five volumes of poetry. Her most recent
collection,‘Whip-hot & Grippy’, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2019. She received the Film London Jarman
Award in 2016 and was awarded the European Film Festival selection at the 47th International Film Festival
Rotterdam in 2018.
RUPTURE NO 1:
blowtorching the bitten peach, her vast, audiovisual and sculptural commission for the Duveens Galleries at Tate
Britain, runs until January 2022 and THE END, her sculpture for the Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, is up until
July 2022. Other recent commissions include a residency at the digital art festival NEW NOW at Zollverein
Unesco World Heritage site ,Essen, Germany, in 2021, new audio-collages for Radio 3 and Art on the
Underground in 2020, installations for the Shanghai Biennial 2021, Sharjah Biennial 14 and the Martin Gropius
Bau, Berlin, both in 2019, and a major solo show at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, in 2018.
Phillipson is also an award-winning poet and has published five volumes of poetry. Her most recent
collection,‘Whip-hot & Grippy’, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2019. She received the Film London Jarman
Award in 2016 and was awarded the European Film Festival selection at the 47th International Film Festival
Rotterdam in 2018.