The British art duo of sticking-to-their-guns well-into-their-40s punks, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, have always put on an oddball sort of performance of being a couple. Perhaps it's not surprising that they worked for Gilbert & George back in the 1990s: Noble and Webster have gained notoriety for their heterosexual artistic codependency ever since.It's hard to not be charmed by their spotlit assemblages of trash, bones, taxidermied animals, or cast body-parts that cast shadows forming portraits of the couple (and maybe apt metaphors for coupledom). Probably their most self-abnegating/self-celebrating romantic gesture was 1997’s The New Barbarians, which they commissioned a sculptor from Madame Tussaud's to create: a dual self-portrait as australopithecines (pre-cavemen who walked upright and had our teeth but had brains the size of apes'). In 2008, Noble and Webster were married by their fellow Yba artist-friend Tracey Emin, which was also the year they last had a...
- 11/18/2014
- by Carl Swanson
- Vulture
The talented team of Tim Noble and Sue Webster have taken recycling to a whole new level: their unique sculptures, fashioned from scrap metal, wood, bones and collections of assorted garbage, seem like disturbing abstract shapes when viewed by themselves. But when a light is turned on them at just the right angle, their shadows fall across the wall, revealing eerie, terrifying silhouettes. "Cold Death" by Tim Noble and Sue Webster Noble and Webster carefully align the hunks of junk at specific angles and distances from a light source. The resulting images include a variety of human figures – including some macabre images that Vlad the Impaler might have enjoyed displaying on his castle walls. "Kiss of Death" by Tim Noble and Sue Webster Grisly displays like “Kiss of Death” are just as creepy on both sides of the spotlight: this one is assembled from the body parts of crows, rats and several other animals.
- 12/10/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Arts Council England admit to a mistake, plus the playwright plumber, and Tate Britain's underlining fetish
Arts Council England admit to a mistake
There were 1,333 applications for Arts Council England (Ace)money this year and 695 winners. Except we can now make that 696 after Ace admitted – get ready – that it made a mistake.
Homotopia, the Liverpool-based gay, lesbian and transgender arts organisation, has been told it will receive £70,000 a year until 2015, after a complaint it made was upheld.
Keen-eyed readers might recall that appeals against refusal were not allowed, but a spokeswoman for Ace told the Diary there was a complaints process when arts organisations felt it had not followed its own procedures: "We wanted to make sure we were absolutely fair."
It received 28 complaints and decided that three should be reassessed, including Homotopia, which had initially been ruled ineligible because it did not have a business model. Homotopia successfully argued...
Arts Council England admit to a mistake
There were 1,333 applications for Arts Council England (Ace)money this year and 695 winners. Except we can now make that 696 after Ace admitted – get ready – that it made a mistake.
Homotopia, the Liverpool-based gay, lesbian and transgender arts organisation, has been told it will receive £70,000 a year until 2015, after a complaint it made was upheld.
Keen-eyed readers might recall that appeals against refusal were not allowed, but a spokeswoman for Ace told the Diary there was a complaints process when arts organisations felt it had not followed its own procedures: "We wanted to make sure we were absolutely fair."
It received 28 complaints and decided that three should be reassessed, including Homotopia, which had initially been ruled ineligible because it did not have a business model. Homotopia successfully argued...
- 8/2/2011
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Left, Henry Hudson’s Whitechapel Galley Loo; right, Marc Quinn and Hudson. When an exhibition is called “Crapula,” you might imagine a crude affair, but British artist Henry Hudson’s new show at 20 Hoxton Square Projects, in London, proves to be quite the opposite. A sophisticated crowd—to say the least—took in the opening party last week at Alexander Dellal’s East London gallery. Socialite Countess Debbie von Bismarck, actress-model-painter Meredith Ostrom, and the gallery owner’s mother, Andrea Dellal, were just some of the keen viewers on Thursday night, along with a top selection of London artists, such as Sue Webster, Tim Noble, Keith Coventry, Hugo Wilson, and Piers Jackson. Inside the airy white showroom were depictions of lavatories at some of London’s most prestigious galleries and museums—the Tate Modern, National Portrait, Serpentine, Victoria and Albert, and Courthauld—drawn in chalk on old-fashioned school blackboards. There...
- 6/7/2010
- Vanity Fair
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