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Young British Artists or YBAs (also Brit artists
and BritArt) is the name given to a group of
conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the UK
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Where are the sensation Paintings NOW? Much of the iconic British work of the 1990's
is now in US collections
Artists
Abigail lane - 5 Watt Moon, a photolithograph image derived from her film of the
same name.
Angela Bulloch - a reference to Marcel Du champ's installation Sixteen Miles of String,
shown at the Surrealist exhibition of 1942 in New York.To the Power of 4.
Angus Fairhurst -"Low Expectations, Lower Expectations, Lowest Expectations“; "Fainter
and Fainter“; "The Missing Link“; "Underdone/Overdone“ Things that don´t work properly,
things that never stop
Anya Gallaccio -Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, After the Gold
Rush. Fascinated that wine, like art, "is a living thing, and it's unpredictable.
Banksy -"Space Girl and Bird" went for £288,000 controversial Israeli security
wall. Among the images he stenciled on to the Palestine side of the West Bank barrier
were of children digging a hole through the wall, and of a ladder going over the
top.
Chapman Jake and Dinos - Zygotic Acceleration, Biogenetic, De-Sublimated Libidinal
Model (Enlarged x 1000) - (life size fibreglass mannequins of children with genital
organs of both sexes attached to their faces)
Chris Ofili - The Holy Virgin Mary (an African Madonna accessorized by clumps of
elephant dung and cutout genitals from pornographic magazines)
Christine Borland -Bullet Proof Breath (2001), a glass bronchial tree with spider-silk
wrapped branches.
Damien Hirst - Away from the Flock (a single lamb suspended in formaldehyde in a
tank) - "Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" (a giant
shark suspended in formaldehyde in a tank)
Fiona Banner -The Nam, a 1,000-page book containing a continuous transcription of
six Vietnam war films - Apocalypse Now, Born On The Fourth of July, The Deer Hunter,
Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill and Platoon.
Fiona Rae - Hong Kong Garden is a beautiful show of large canvases covered in symbols,
floral patterns, 70s psychedelic letters, digitized numbers, splattered paint and
loose blurs of colour.
Gary Hume - Begging For It (large, colourful paintings including people and flowers
using household gloss paints)
Gavin Turk - Pop (a waxwork life size model of himself dressed as Sid Vicious)
Richard Patterson - Blue Minotaur (one of a series of close-up paintings of a plastic
toy Minotaur)
Gillian Wearing - Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say
What Someone Else Wants You To Say (Wearing asked strangers to write down anything
and took photographs of them)
Ian Davenport -He covered a whole wall of Tate Britain with hypnotic lines of rainbow
hues for the Days Like These exhibition, The Southwark painting is typical
Jason Martin - ''Cha-Cha'' and ''Samba'' have a lot of wave action.
Jenny Saville - Propped (a large-scale self portrait nude oil painting)
Liam Gillick -His design, entitled The Day Before (You Know What They'll Call It?
They'll Call it the Tube) shows the words of the date of the last day before the
Underground opened, written in twelve sets of coloured letters symbolising the twelve
rail lines.
Marc Quinn - Self (a self portrait made of eight pints of the artist's own blood,
frozen)
Marcus Harvey - Myra (an infamous child murderer, Myra Hindley, painted using children's
handprints)
Mark Francis - Thallophyte (1999;2000.) black dots like beads on a cord swirl around
a painterly red ground.
Martin Maloney -We Are Family, Equal Opportunities and Community Association, and
they are loosely based on photographs from newspapers and magazines.
Matt Collishaw -close-up photograph of a bloody head wound called ''Bullet Hole.''
Meredith Vula -women in Turkish baths, and a series showing women standing and moving
beneath the surface of water.
Michael Landy -Nourishment continues with this theme, though in a rather different
way; one which reflects particularly on Break Down.
Rachel Whiteread - Untitled (One Hundred Spaces) (the space beneath one hundred chairs,
cast in many colours of translucent resin) and "Ghost" a cast of the interior of
a whole room.
Ron Mueck - Dead Dad ( a two thirds scale but beautifully accurate model of his naked
dead father)
Sam Taylor-Wood - Five Revolutionary Seconds (peopled interiors are photographed
in five seconds by a special rotating camera that registers a 360-degree view in
one continuous take)
Sarah Lucas - Sod You Gits and Au Naturel (two oranges and a cucumber propped on
a stained mattress)
Simon Callery -Spy, an installation exhibited at the British Council
Tacita Dean - In works such as Bubble House (1999) and Sound Mirrors (1999), we are
shown buildings and places that are charged with a meaning that we cannot fully comprehend,
often depicting a failed or abandoned vision.
Tracey Emin - Everyone I Have Ever Slept With, 1963-95 (a small tent with the names
of Emin's bedmates stitched onto it, which was destroyed in a fire that
engulfed the Momart Warehouse in which it was stored)
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