- Anya Gallaccio
Anya Gallaccio (born 1963) is a Scottish
artist , who often works with organic matter. She was a nominee in the 2003Turner Prize .Life and work
Anya Gallaccio was born in
Paisley ,Scotland , and studied at Kingston Polytechnic andGoldsmiths College . In 1988, the year she graduated from Goldsmiths, she exhibited in theDamien Hirst -curated "Freeze" exhibition which brought together many of the so-calledYoung British Artists .Much of her work uses organic materials, with
fruit ,vegetable s andflower s all featuring in her work. Sometimes these materials undergo a change during the course the their being exhibited - in "Red on Green" (1992), for example, ten thousand rose heads placed on a bed of their stalks gradually whithered as the exhibition went on. For "Intensities and Surfaces" (1996) Gallaccio left a thirty two ton block ofice with asalt core in the disused pump station at Wapping and allowed it to melt.Other works by Gallaccio include "Stroke" (1993) in which benches in the gallery and cardboard panels attached to the walls were covered in
chocolate and "Because Nothing has Changed" (2000), abronze sculpture of atree adorned withporcelain apple s. "Because I Could Not Stop" (2002) is a similar bronze tree but with real apples which are left to rot.In 2003, Gallaccio was shortlisted for the
Turner Prize . One of her pieces for the show was "preserve "beauty", 1991-2003, which was made from glass, fixings and 2,000 redgerbera s.In 2006, she was listed on the Pink Power list of 100 most influential gay and lesbian people of 2006. ["The Independent", (July 2, 2006), [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1153578.ece Gay Power: The pink list] . Retrieved June 25, 2007.]
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* [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=2658&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio Biography from "Grove Art" at the Tate Gallery]
* [http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART16312.html A piece on Gallaccio's exhibition at Birmingham's Ikon Gallery]
* [http://www.artnet.com/ag/artistdetails.asp?aid=6676 List of exhibitions and literature on Gallaccio from artnet.com]
* [http://www.kultureflash.net/archive/21/priview.html A brief interview with Gallaccio on "beat"]
* [http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/anyagallaccio Anya Gallaccio at Lehmann Maupin Gallery]
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