Dominique Heyse-Moore – författare

Sarah Lucas is an internationally celebrated artist known for the provocative use of materials and imagery in her work. Incorporating ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understandings of sex, class and gender over the last four decades.Looking beyond the generation of 1990s Young British Artists during which Lucas emerged, this visually stunning exhibition book invites the public to marvel at the diversity of her work across sculpture, installation and photography. Featuring an artist interview with Louisa Buck, new texts by writers Lauren Elkin and Nathalie Olah and a new poem by the artist Cerith Wyn Evans, Happy Gas is a brash, tender and boundary-breaking exploration of what makes us human.

Sarah Lucas is an internationally celebrated artist known for the provocative use of materials and imagery in her work. Incorporating ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understandings of sex, class and gender over the last four decades.Looking beyond the generation of 1990s Young British Artists during which Lucas emerged, this visually stunning exhibition book invites the public to marvel at the diversity of her work across sculpture, installation and photography. Featuring an artist interview with Louisa Buck, new texts by writers Lauren Elkin and Nathalie Olah and a new poem by the artist Cerith Wyn Evans, Happy Gas is a brash, tender and boundary-breaking exploration of what makes us human.

Frank Bowling (b.1934) is one of the foremost artists of his generation. His paintings – monumental in scale and scope, dynamic and flooded with luminous colour – are testament to his boundless creativity. His prolific body of work, from his large-scale map and poured paintings to his sculpture and collage, is demonstrative of not only his fluid approach to medium, but also his deft control of colour and light. This book is an indispensable and poignant introduction to the life and work of Bowling. Charting his formative experiences in Guyana, England and the United States, it paints a portrait of an artist whose practice is shaped by his personal and cultural history, as well as by the seismic social and political changes of the twentieth century to which he was witness. In a career spanning over six decades, his experimental approach to light and texture has continually pushed at the possibilities of paint, developing a distinct visual language that is deeply immersed in the wider cultural debates of our time and cementing him as one of the most influential artists today.

Artist duo Hylozoic/Desires excavate the lost archive of the Salt Hedge in their new moving image installation and this accompanying publication, speculating on forgotten colonial history and myth, exploring borders and the movement of ideas, and the power of indigenous knowledge as a tool of resistance.The Inland Customs Line, or the Salt Hedge, separated the British-occupied Bengal Presidency from independent states to prevent smuggling and enforce the British monopoly on salt. Between 1840 and 1880, the British Empire built a barrier in the Indian subcontinent that stretched for 4,000km, of which more than half was a planted hedge.Art Now is a series of free exhibitions at Tate Britain focusing on new and recent work by emerging artists. Since its inception in 1995, it has recognised talent at its outset and provided a springboard for artists who have gone on to become established figures on the international art scene. Art Now: Hylozoic/Desires is part of a series of related presentations by the artists, including Somerset House’s outdoor commission, namak haram/namak halal, which takes the form of an immense line of block printed fabric depicting the non-human life that inhabited the hedge (19 February – 26 April 2025).