Heather Phillipson

Phillipson has held solo exhibitions at major galleries and locations internationally, including the annual Duveen Galleries commission at Tate Britain in 2021 and the 13th commission for the Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, where her sculpture The End was installed from 2020 to 2022.

Her live events, which involve music, video, objects and speech, have been presented at venues including Tate Britain, the Serpentine Gallery, Palais de Tokyo, Whitechapel Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

The youngest of three children, her mother was a social worker and feminist activist and her father a teacher, artist, jazz musician and writer.

[4] She later went on to study Art & Design at Pembrokeshire College in the town of Haverfordwest where she also worked part-time in a record shop, building up her collection and knowledge of UK dance and electronic music, which later informed her practice as a DJ, playing house, jungle and drum and bass.

As Phillipson noted when interviewed on BBC Radio 3's Private Passions in 2020,[5] this has had a significant impact on the sampling, rhythmic and tonal structures of her work.