Interview: VF artist Es Devlin

Es Devlin discusses her recent VF release, An Atlas Of Es Devlin.

VF artist and polymath Es Devlin recently sat down to discuss creating music and the labels that artists ascribe to themselves.

Devlin, who recently released An Atlas Of Es Devlin–a collection that captures 20 of her works’ soundscapes, with music produced by long-time collaborators Polyphonia, mixed with her voiceovers–on vinyl via The Vinyl Factory, spoke with us about her collaborative relationship with Polyphonia, the vinyl release and the fluidity of creative identity.

Devlin’s protean work is rooted in a life-long practice of reading and drawing. From sketches in the margins of texts, be they poetry, drama, song lyrics, opera libretti, climate reports or endangered species lists, emerge the technically advanced, collectively imagined universes for which she is globally renowned.

Fragile miniature paintings, paper cuts and small mechanical cardboard models form the seeds of some of the most iconic, large-scale, multi-disciplinary cultural manifestations in recent times, from public sculptures and installations at Tate Modern, Serpentine, V&A, Barbican, Imperial War Museum and the Lincoln Center, to kinetic stage designs at the Royal Opera House, the Royal Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala and the National Theatre, as well as Olympic Ceremonies, Super-Bowl half-time shows, and monumental illuminated stage sculptures for Beyonce, The Weeknd, U2, Rosalìa, Dr Dre and Kendrick Lamar.

An Atlas of Es Devlin by Es Devlin and Polyphonia is now available from The Vinyl Factory on 180-gram heavyweight white vinyl with a gatefold sleeve, a special mixed fluoro orange cover and an accompanying 4pp booklet.

Order a copy now.

Read more: The Records That Made Es Devlin