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14 May 2021 • 10:35am Grand ecstatic drama: Heather Phillipson's Tate Britain Commission Credit: Geoff Pugh for the Telegraph  What are you looking at? At Tate Britain, on bright screens in a dusky space, close-ups of at least a dozen inhuman eyes stare straight at you. Here’s a watchful tiger. There, a snow monkey, slowly blinking. And that must be a chameleon, flicking a swollen, purple tongue across its socket. It feels unsettling, being eyeballed like this, as though you’re prey within the jungle.  This is the first scene in Heather Phillipson’s stonking new multimedia installat...

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 re...

Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA Photo: James Mollison Last month, figures from across the international art world appeared on screen at the Whitechapel Gallery’s virtual gala to celebrate Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA), their designated “art icon” for 2021. The “i-word” can have cringeworthy connotations, but in this case, no one felt it was too hyperbolic a handle for this much-loved pioneering artist, who for more than three decades, has used his multifarious art to address the vexed legacy of colonialism, a quest that has never been more relevant than in the current moment....

Tate Britain Commission: Heather Phillipson RUPTURE NO.1: blowtorching the bitten peach Heather Phillipson. Photograph by Rory Van Millingen. LONDON .- 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 Phillipson’s expansive, multimedia projects include video, sculpture, installation, music, poetry and digital media. Described by the artist as ‘quantum...

Nasher Prize laureate Michael Rakowitz finally gets his due after pandemic delay The artist’s work often deals with displaced populations and cultures. Michael Rakowitz, winner of the 2020 Nasher Prize, is finally getting to take part in some of the in-person events associated with the honor. He plans to use the $100,000 in prize money to continue his work centering on Iraq.(Nasher Sculpture Center) When artist Michael Rakowitz won the Nasher Prize in late 2019, the world was a vastly different place. Typically, the announcement of the prestigious prize — which has been handed out annuall...