The Tate Britain is a hub for art lovers, featuring a plethora of unique and visually enticing exhibitions. One of those being Heather Phillipson’s ‘rupture NO.1: blowtorching the bitten peach.’ Heather Phillipson is a British artist who experiments with a variety of media including sculpture, music, video and large-scale installations, commonly incorporating colour and textural aspects in her work to create a hectic and almost psychedelic explosion of colour and life.

Upon entering the exhibition, you are met by a pathway featuring an assortment of vivid and spectacularly colourful animal eyes engulfing you into the artistic world of Heather Phillipson. The exhibition is an ideal representation of her consistently vivid and unique art style, containing a concoction of different media, textures and materials. The vibrant exhibition involved a colossal, horned sculpture composed of presumably papier-mâché and a variety of other media. A slight futuristic feel in her art was also represented through vibrant scenes projected on the walls of the gallery, one of these featuring a beautiful magenta and burnt orange sunset-like motion of a peach, which symbolised the sun, rising and setting above a tranquil ocean. Similarly, this digital aspect to her work is showcased through one of the projections on the walls of the gallery which features a metamorphosis of colours on a ribcage.

Phillipson also integrates an industrial aspect to her exhibition, presenting this through objects such mobile gas canisters and aircraft fuel tanks suspended in a cabin above a plane of sand with several salt lamps embedded in this to create a beautiful and subdued atmosphere. In conclusion, Heather Phillipson’s artistic brilliance is unveiled at ‘Rupture NO.1: blowtorching the bitten peach’ exhibition at Tate Britain and is certainly an option for those seeking an artistic whirlwind of colourful exuberance!