Es Devlin

Es Devlin is an artist and designer.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: Coriolanus, Dear England (also Prince Edward), The Motive and the Cue (also Noël Coward), The Lehman Trilogy (also West End, Broadway and on tour; 2022 Tony Award), The Crucible, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Ugly Lies the Bone

Other theatre includes: A Number at the Old Vic; Girls and Boys and The Nether at the Royal Court; Faith Healer at the Donmar; Hamlet at the Barbican; and Chimerica at the Almeida

Other work

a multi-media project ‘Surfacing’, in collaboration with Sharon Eyal for Art Basel 2024; the large-scale choral sculpture ‘Come Home Again’ outside the Tate Modern which fused drawings and voices of 243 endangered London species; ‘Conference of the Trees’ which brought together 197 trees at COP26 in Glasgow; ‘Memory Palace’ at Pitzhanger Manor which mapped shifts in human perspective over 73 millennia; and ‘Forest of Us’ which forms part of the inaugural exhibition at Superblue Miami

Awards

Superbowl 2022 – Emmy Award

The Lehman Trilogy – Tony Award

Children of the Internet with Dave and Future Utopia – Ivor Novello Award

The Nether – Olivier Award

Chimerica – Olivier Award

The Dog in the Manger – Olivier Award

London Design Medal

Es Devlin has conceived stage sculptures with musicians and fashion designers, Super Bowl halftime shows and Olympic Ceremonies in London and Rio. She was the first woman to design the UK Pavilion at EXPO 2020 and her practice was the subject of the documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design.

She is the recipient of The London Design Medal, three Olivier Awards, doctorates from the universities of Bristol, Kent and UAL, and a CBE. Es Devlin has recently published a new monographic book, An Atlas of Es Devlin (Thames & Hudson) and designed a retrospective exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

(Updated September 2024)