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Heather Phillipson

October 2022

  • Sin Wai Kin’s It’s Always You on display for the 2022 Turner prize at Tate Liverpool.

    Turner prize 2022 review – as baffling as ever

    Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan, Heather Phillipson and Sin Wai Kin go head to head in a jumble of boyband promos, apocalyptic raves and the ghosts of racism

April 2022

  • Turner prize 2022 nominees. Clockwise from top left - Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Sin Wai Kin and Veronica Ryan.

    Breadfruit, cherries and drag: this is a lip-smacking Turner prize shortlist

  • THE END, a sculpture of a giant swirl of whipped cream, a cherry, a fly and a drone that transmits a live feed.

    Turner prize: Trafalgar Square whipped cream and fly sculpture among shortlist

December 2021

  • A giant swirl of replica whipped cream topped with a cherry<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - 2020/07/30: A giant swirl of replica whipped cream topped with a cherry, a fly and a drone was unveiled on the 4th Plinth at Trafalgar Square, central London today. Heather Phillipson's sculpture, titled THE END, was due to be unveiled on 26 March but delayed due to the Covid-19 crisis. Its drone will transmit a live feed of the square which can be watched on a dedicated website. (Photo by Dave Rushen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

    The person who got me through 2021
    The person who got me through 2021: Heather Phillipson’s sculpture brightened my trips to hospital

    On my way to have painful medical tests, I felt dejected. Then I saw a giant dollop of whipped cream with a cherry on top in Trafalgar Square

May 2021

  • No 227 by David Hockney.

    David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy 2020 review – pixels at dawn

    Stick-figure trees, synthetic blossoms, felt-pen colours - the power of Hockney’s daily iPad sketches of spring in Normandy is stunted by technology
  • Heather Phillipson.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Heather Phillipson’s cultural highlights

    The artist, whose latest work is currently gracing Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries, on the joy of weather forecasts, a gripping memoir, and the greatness of Theaster Gates
    • A funfair ride to the end of the world – Heather Phillipson: Rupture No 1 review

    • Reopening culture
      From brutal Dubuffet to nice guy Nero: what to see as art exhibitions open

    • Heather Phillipson brings her ‘parallel planet’ to Tate Britain

December 2020

  • Culture 2021, Art. From left; Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam by MVRDV, Eileen Agar self portrait, A Lion by Albrecht Dürer, Allegory of Fable by Gustave Moreau

    2021 culture preview
    Brutal Bacon, wild Gehry and unmissable Abramovic: 2021's best art, architecture and photography

    Rodin, Bacon and Eileen Agar will be big, but Abramovic’s art attack could eclipse them all. Plus Frank Gehry unleashes a tornado and Helen Levitt shows how street photography should be done

July 2020

  • Claire Armitstead

    Licked into shape: Heather Phillipson's sundae should bring an end to the fourth plinth

    Claire Armitstead
  • The End in Trafalgar Square, London

    Fourth plinth whipped cream, drone and fly sculpture unveiled

March 2020

  • Maisie Williams (Caroline) in I and You at Hampstead Theatre. Photo credit Manuel Harlan (2)

    Lockdown culture
    From standup to the Sistine chapel: the best online culture for self-isolation

  • ‘Sleep when you’re dead. I’m fortunate to be in demand’ … Heather Phillipson in her east London studio.

    'Disgust can be so engrossing': fourth plinth artist Heather Phillipson

January 2019

  • Bridget Riley, seen here in 2009, is debuting a similarly colourful painting at the National Gallery on 17 January.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Riley splashes out at the National Gallery and Gateshead welcomes an apocalypse – the week in art

    Bridget Riley unveils a site-specific work, Heather Phillipson’s fantastical images take over the Baltic and more

August 2018

  • Heather Phillipson, artist

    Autumn arts preview 2018
    Heather Phillipson: 'We torture eggs. They're potential lives'

    The vegan artist has put eggs on the tube and is about to place a dollop of cream on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square – but first there are augmented-reality bird faeces to attend to

June 2018

  • Heather Phillipson’s sculpture installation, My Name is Lettie Eggsyrub, at Gloucester Road tube station.

    Heather Phillipson review – eggs on the underground are a cracking joke

    Cartoon bad smells and fried eggs on the platform greet London’s tube commuters as the artist wittily gives them a riot of symbolism to ponder on their journey

March 2017

  • Jonathan Jones

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth is fine for horses, but not avant garde art

    Jonathan Jones
  • Michael Rakowitz peeks out from behind a scale model of his proposed artwork, The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist.

    Winged bull and giant dollop of cream to adorn Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth

January 2017

  • The End by Heather Phillipson

    Plinth perfect: the five contenders for the fourth Trafalgar spot

    Heather Phillipson’s whirl of cream is the cherry on top of a shortlist that reflects the nation’s grim sense of foreboding
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