Es Devlin: Other Worlds — The Design Museum Retrospective
The Design Museum's first European retrospective of a designer who refuses to be pinned down, and who has a pointed view on what makes work human. In 1926, Natalia Goncharova designed the vast painted backcloth for the Ballets Russes production of The Firebird , moving between painting, theatre and performance with the same disregard for disciplinary boundaries that characterises Es Devlin's work a century later. Devlin encountered the idea of “everythingism” through a commission for V&A East Storehouse responding to Goncharova's Firebird backcloth, and found in it an apt description of her own way of working. Es Devlin: Other Worlds , opening at the Design Museum on 2 October, traces three decades of her multidisciplinary practice through her archive of drawings, models, photographs, sketches and other working material. Devlin points out that working across disciplines was once far less unusual. Robert Hooke worked with Christopher Wren on St Paul's Cathedral whil...
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