Phyllida Barlow

After four decades in which she has been more influential as a teacher than a practising artist, Phyllida Barlow's anarchic, spontaneous, antimonumental sculptural assemblies are finally, deservedly, finding the limelight. By Oliver Basciano

Tom Friedman

Is there anything that can't be counterfeited using Styrofoam and paint? If you're Tom Friedman, master of transforming mundane materials, the answer is a resounding 'no'. But is there more to his art than technical magic? By Martin Herbert

Michael Joo

Something or nothing? Michael Joo tackles the big questions of existence via the little things in life: mathematics, biochemistry, Buddha, some antlers, a couple of litres of urine and a few hundred pounds of MSG. By Mark Rappolt