We have arrived in a censorious age where an artist’s tragic backstory and politics matter more than their art itself. Welcome to the tyranny of context
From Brat to Chappell Roan, this is pop music now: unapologetically girly, increasingly queer, a thing that can be both glitteringly beautiful and also messy and vulnerable
From 2000: The artist had a Tate St Ives residency in 1998/99 when she worked from a temporary studio improvised in the lifeguard’s hut. Here, she recounts her experience
From 2012: Resonating throughout the exhibition is a belief that ideas ask for a physical form and that we always think with the help of the material world
