
Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Tim noble was born in 1966 in Stroud and sue Webster was born in 1967 In Leicester they are both contemporary artists based in England. They are associated with the Post-YBA generation of artists who came out after the Young British Artists of the 1990s. Noble & Webster live and work together in East London. Charles Saatchi collects their work and displays it in the Saatchi gallery.
The majority of their work is made out of rubbish found on the streets of London which is then made into piles that might not look like much when you first look at them but when a light is cast upon them you can see the shadows of what they’re really meant to be. One example of this is a piece called “Real life is rubbish” which was created in 2002; I like this piece because they have made use of everyday house hold rubbish to create portraits of themselves in a pile of rubbish with a meaning, creating something beautiful out of something so ugly.
Another quite controversial work of theirs I like is called “Kiss of death.” I like this piece as I think they have gone a step further with this one than just collecting rubbish off the street. This piece is made up of taxidermy animal bodies of birds and rats and again light is projected on to a wall to give an image. The image shows two decapitated heads on spikes with a crow sat on top of one of them, it looks as if they’re trying to reach out to each other after death for a kiss.
The reason why I chose to write about Tim Noble and Sue Webster is that one of the similarities between their work and my work is that I am going to create art using found objects from the Scrapstore that can be reused and recycled. These objects are ones that careless people would think were no use and should just throw away, Noble & Webster also use objects that other people wouldn’t take a second look at, in household rubbish.
I like them because they’re spontaneous and are also showing in their work that the most unattractive and vile objects can sometimes surprise you in being made into something beautiful.
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