Es Devlin

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Es Devlin is an artist and designer who is known for creating large-scale installations and environments that combine music, language, and light.
Her work in machine generated poetry began with PoemPortraits at the Serpentine Gallery in 2016 in response to curator Hans Ulrich Obrist’s invitation to consider the idea of a ‘social sculpture’. In 2017 she continued her explorations at the Victoria & Albert Museum, turning their annual artist-conceived Christmas tree into a ‘collective carol’. In 2018, visitors fed words into the mouth of one of the lions in Trafalgar Square and watched the collective text projected up the length of Nelson’s Column.

Her latest large scale mirror maze, Forest of Us (2021) forms part of the inaugural exhibition at SUPERBLUE Miami alongside new works by James Turrell and TeamLab. The Imperial War Museum commission, I Saw the World End (2020) invited viewers to engage simultaneously with opposing perspectives on Europe’s largest LED screen in Piccadilly Circus, while the monumental 360 degree sculpture Memory Palace (2019) mapped shifts in human perspective over 73 millennia. She was Artistic Director of the 2021 London Design Biennale and created a spectacular forest in Somerset House’s central courtyard for the Forest for Change – The Global Goals Pavilion. Her new temporary forest project Conference of the Trees will be shown at COP26 in Glasgow in November.
Devlin’s practice originates in collaborations in theatre (The Lehman Trilogy), opera (Carmen on the Lake at Bregenz), Olympic ceremonies (London and Rio) and has created some of the most renowned stage sculptures (with Beyoncé, The Weeknd, Billie Eilish, U2, Kanye West) seen by mass audiences around the world.
Her work has been shown at London’s Serpentine Gallery and the V&A and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and she is the first woman chosen to design the British Pavilion at the World Expo – opening in October this year. Her practice is the subject of the Netflix documentary series: Abstract: The Art of Design, and part of the Masterclass series. She has won three Olivier Awards, the London Design medal and was made OBE in 2015. Her first song writing collaboration, Children of the Internet, with British rapper Dave and producer Fraser T Smith has just been awarded an Ivor Novello award for best new contemporary song.
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Es Devlin is an artist and designer who is known for creating large-scale installations and environments that combine music, language, and light. Her work in machine generated poetry began with PoemPortraits at the Serpentine Gallery in 2016 in response to curator Hans Ulrich Obrist’s invitation to consider the idea of a ‘social sculpture’. In 2017 she continued her explorations at the Victoria & Albert Museum, turning their annual artist-conceived Christmas tree into a ‘collective carol’. In 2018, visitors fed words into the mouth of one of the lions in Trafalgar Square and watched the collective text projected up the length of Nelson’s Column. Her latest large scale mirror maze, Forest of Us (2021) forms part of the inaugural exhibition at SUPERBLUE Miami alongside new works by James Turrell and TeamLab. The Imperial War Museum commission, I Saw the World End (2020) invited viewers to engage simultaneously with opposing perspectives on Europe’s largest LED screen in Piccadilly Circus, while the monumental 360 degree sculpture Memory Palace (2019) mapped shifts in human perspective over 73 millennia. She was Artistic Director of the 2021 London Design Biennale and created a spectacular forest in Somerset House’s central courtyard for the Forest for Change – The Global Goals Pavilion. Her new temporary forest project Conference of the Trees will be shown at COP26 in Glasgow in November. Devlin’s practice originates in collaborations in theatre (The Lehman Trilogy), opera (Carmen on the Lake at Bregenz), Olympic ceremonies (London and Rio) and has created some of the most renowned stage sculptures (with Beyoncé, The Weeknd, Billie Eilish, U2, Kanye West) seen by mass audiences around the world. Her work has been shown at London’s Serpentine Gallery and the V&A and at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and she is the first woman chosen to design the British Pavilion at the World Expo – opening in October this year. Her practice is the subject of the Netflix documentary series: Abstract: The Art of Design, and part of the Masterclass series. She has won three Olivier Awards, the London Design medal and was made OBE in 2015. Her first song writing collaboration, Children of the Internet, with British rapper Dave and producer Fraser T Smith has just been awarded an Ivor Novello award for best new contemporary song.