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A Concise Atlas of Es Devlin

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A captivating visual presentation of Es Devlin's personal and inherently collective art practice, now available in a new compact edition with additional content. Artist and designer Es Devlin's outstanding works span the fields of art, theatre, opera, dance, fashion, sculpture, poetry, light, and music. Her practice... Read More
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A captivating visual presentation of Es Devlin's personal yet inherently collective art practice, now available in a new compact edition.

A captivating visual presentation of Es Devlin's personal yet inherently collective art practice, now available in a new compact edition with additional content.

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A captivating visual presentation of Es Devlin's personal and inherently collective art practice, now available in a new compact edition with additional content.

Artist and designer Es Devlin's outstanding works span the fields of art, theatre, opera, dance, fashion, sculpture, poetry, light, and music. Her practice has helped engender innovative forms of kinetic sculpture, and her creative vision has filled millions of people with wonder: from installations at Tate Modern, kinetic stage designs for Olympic opening ceremonies, and monumental stage sculptures with celebrated musicians globally. Devlin's work is at once deeply personal and inherently collective, engaging with biodiversity, linguistic diversity, and collective AI-generated poetry.

Following the success of Devlin's award-winning sculptural monograph, An Atlas of Es Devlin (2023), A Concise Atlas of Es Devlin maintains the experiential design of the original in an accessible, smaller format with thirty new projects from Devlin's recent output, including collaborations with Lady Gaga, Gucci, and the V&A. Coinciding with the Design Museum's retrospective of her work opening in London in autumn 2026, the book features Devlin's personal commentaries on each work, as well as interviews with her collaborators including Pharrell Williams and Carlo Rovelli.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500299203

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: 1000 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Edited by Andrea Lipps

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 130.0mm

Weight: 1280g

Pages: 942

About the Author

ES DEVLIN (born London 1971) is genre-defying artist whose work spans sculpture, performance, drawing, language and light. Devlin views an audience as a temporary society in which new perspectives can be rehearsed. Her luminous public artworks invite participation in communal choral works at major sites and institutions including V&A Museum, Trafalgar Square, Tate Modern, Serpentine, National Portrait Gallery, Imperial War Museum, and Lincoln Centre Plaza. Her practice has been documented in retrospective exhibitions at the London Design Museum, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Casa Bradesco São Paulo, Futura Seoul, Powerhouse Parramatta, Sydney and ArtScience Museum Singapore. Her kinetic stage sculptures in theatres, opera houses, arena and stadia have redefined the art of performance design in collaboration with the world's most celebrated musicians. A fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, Devlin serves as Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at the University of Oxford.

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