Heather Phillipson | my name is lettie eggsyrub | 2018

Art on the Underground has an audience beyond the reach of any gallery - five million passengers every day – and 270 stations across London’s tube network in which to display work. Yet, despite its vast reach and the fact that it has commissioned artists including Cindy Sherman, David Shrigley, Mark Titchner, David Batchelor and Assemble, few people outside the art world have heard of it.
Its programme for 2018-19 kicks off this summer with an immersive new multimedia work by Heather Phillipson (b1978) at Gloucester Road underground station, where a disused platform has become a permanent display space for three-dimensional art.
Phillipson is one of an impressive lineup of established and emerging female artists of many ages and nationalities selected to mark the centenary year of the Representation of the People Act (whereby all men and some women over the age of 30 were granted the vote).
Words by VERONICA SIMPSON
Filmed by MARTIN KENNEDY