On my radar: Heather Phillipson’s cultural highlights

The artist, whose latest work is currently gracing Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries, on the joy of weather forecasts, a gripping memoir, and the greatness of Theaster Gates

Born in 1978 in London, award-winning artist and poet Heather Phillipson completed a PhD in fine art practice at Middlesex University in 2007. Her work encompasses digital media, music and sculpture, and she has published five volumes of poetry. Her sculpture The End, which depicts a cherry-topped swirl of whipped cream and transmits a live feed from a drone's perspective, is on the Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square until August 2022. Her latest work, RUPTURE NO 1: blowtorching the bitten peach, a new commission for the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain, runs until January 2022, and her work will be part of Poet Slash Artist at this year's MIF.