Book Launch & Talk: Es Devlin and Sarah Douglas

On the release of ‘A Concise Atlas of Es Devlin’About this Event

Ursula Magazine is pleased to host a special book launch and talk celebrating the release of ‘A Concise Atlas of Es Devlin,’ from Thames & Hudson, with artist Es Devlin and Ursula Global Advisor Sarah Douglas.‘A Concise Atlas of Es Devlin’ brings all of the artist’s work together in one compact sculptural cube-shaped 1,000 color page volume to coincide with Devlin’s major retrospective at the Design Museum, London. Devlin’s protean work is rooted in a lifelong practice of reading and drawing. From sketches in the margins of texts—including poetry, drama, song lyrics, opera libretti, climate reports, and 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, multidisciplinary cultural manifestations in recent times, from