Tim Noble & Sue Webster

Tim Noble & Sue Webster

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Tim Noble and Sue Webster are known for magically transforming garbage into art. They sculpt piles of street rubbish, studio debris, and taxidermy animals into astonishing representations of life with "real" shadows of the artists themselves hovering over their accumulations of discarded objects. These abstract forms mysteriously reverse the abstraction into figuration.
Noble & Webster have created a remarkable group of anti-monuments in their eleven-year career, mixing the strategies of modern sculpture and the attitude of punk to make art from anti-art. Their work derives much of its power from its fusion of opposites, form and anti-form, high culture and anti-culture, male and female, craft and rubbish, sex and violence. It is an art of magic and illusion, but it is also an art of direct experience. It combines sculpture, theatre, advertising and persona. The artists have succeeded in making their lives and the experience of the viewer part of the art.
Since their first solo show in London in 1996, British Rubbish, Noble & Webster have enjoyed international recognition with solo exhibitions at The Freud Museum, London, 2006, CAC Malaga, 2005, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2004, P.S.1/MoMA, New York 2003, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK, 2002, and Deste Foundation, Athens, 2000. Their work is in the permanent collection of the Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; Artis-François Pinault, France; Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Honart Museum, Tehran, Iran; Project Space 176–The Zabludowicz Collection, London; Saatchi Collection, London; Samsung Museum, Seoul, Korea; Solomon R. Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver.

WASTED YOUTH, a comprehensive new survey of the artists' work from 1996 to 2006 is now available, published by Rizzoli in New York.