Heather Phillipson is a British Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1978. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Tate Liverpool have featured Heather Phillipson's work in the past.The maker's first piece to be offered at auction was "PRIVATE PARTS PICTURES PRESENTS" at Phillips London in 2014.Heather Phillipson has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Apollo in September 2025.
Eleanor Pinfield, director of Art on the Underground, talks to Apollo about the excitements and challenges of commissioning art for a subterranean audience.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead has announced a major donation from North East musician聽Sting聽that kickstarts the art gallery鈥檚 fundraising campaign for an Endowment Fund.
Heather Phillipson鈥檚 expansive exhibition at Swansea鈥檚 Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is one of a series of commissions through the Imperial War Museum鈥檚 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund.
鈥
.. Through video, music, sculpture and live and recorded speech, artist and poet Heather Phillipson鈥榮 work oscillates between conceptual distances and the intimacy of the body...
鈥
鈥
..Language plays a fundamental role in Phillipson鈥檚 creative processes: in addition to being a celebrated artist she is also an award-winning poet...
鈥
鈥
..Situating mass-produced images and objects of consumption and communication, this is a commission in its freest sense: a world that resembles our own, translated via Phillipson鈥檚 imagination into physical...
鈥
鈥
..Phillipson stakes out a zone in which there is little to differentiate between what鈥檚 here and what鈥檚 gone, between textures underfoot, a grain silo and interstellar blast-off, between creaturely life...
鈥