- Fiona Rae
"'Fiona Rae (born 1963) is a British artist and one of the "
Young British Artists " (YBAs). She is a painter.She was born in Hong Kong and moved to England in 1970. She attended Croydon College of Art (1983-84) and
Goldsmiths College (1984-1987).She was one of the artists in the seminal "Freeze" exhibition curated by
Damien Hirst in 1988. Her work was subsequently bought byCharles Saatchi and shown in the major 1997 "Sensation" exhibition, which brought "Britart" into the establishment, as it was hosted by theRoyal Academy ,London , before touring abroad. She was nominated for theTurner Prize in 1991, and in 1993 for the Austrian Eliette Von Karajan Prize for Young Painters. She was commissioned byTate Modern to create a 10 metretriptych "Shadowland" for the restaurant there in 2002Rae is now a Royal Academician and also a Trustee of the
Tate Gallery , both significant accolades for the artist.Her work is abstract, and makes a Postmodern use of a seemingly random assemblage of painterly applications in order to create new and unexpected juxtapositions on the canvas. It is a cool and much more cerebral version of
Abstract Expressionism .In a statement for a 2005 residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, she commented [http://www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org/artresprog/resschedule/mar/f_rae.html]
I like lively, heartfelt and witty art that can also be cool and ironic. Doesn't necessarily have to be painting, but that's my favorite thing, partly because I think it's the hardest way to be fresh and original in the 21st century.
Books
"Fiona Rae/Gary Hume", text by Sarah Kent, The Saatchi Gallery, London, 1997.
External links
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/13921/fiona-rae.html Paintings, list of exhibitions and literature]
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