Over the past fifteen years, British artist Ed Atkins has become one of the UK’s most influential artists, through computer-generated videos and animations that repurpose technology in revealing and revelatory ways. Borrowing from a plethora of sources, Atkins work explores the contemporary state of being, and the collisions between reality and fantasy. This ink and gouache painting on board is one of a series of similar works, realistic depictions of pillows, bearing the traces of the absent human body. “My life and my work are inextricable. How do I convey the life-ness that made these works – my life-ness – through the exhibition? Not in some factual, chronological, biographical way, but through sensations. I want it so the more you see, the richer, more complex, less authored, less gettable things become” Atkins has said. The work reveals a persistent concern in Atkins work, to explore his own body, anxiety and the threatened human body. The work is included in Atkins’ largest ever exhibition to date, currently on view at Tate Britain, running to August 25th, 2025.

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