- Abigail Lane
Abigail Lane (born 1967) is a
Young British Artist (YBA) and was one of the exhibitors at the 1988 Freeze exhibition.Life and work
Abigail Lane was born in Penzance. Her parents separated when she was 4, and she left with her sister, Esther, to live with her mother and stepfather. She attended the Free School (where there were "no rules"), then studied at Bristol Polytechnic and
Goldsmiths College, University of London . She was a co-curator of the Freeze show, along withDamien Hirst ,Gary Hume andSarah Lucas . This is seen as the inauguration of what later became known as Britart.Karsten Schubert gave her the first solo show in 1997. She has since shown at theVictoria Miro Gallery and abroad.Her work is based on late Victorian displays such as séances, circus imagery and magic shows. It has included wallpaper with a repeated design of images of her rear, scratching and scraping noises heard behind a shut door and wax replicas of bodily fragments suspended from the ceiling.
Since 1996 she has lived and worked in a convert|6000|sqft|m2|abbr=on warehouse in a
Hackney Wick industrial estate.In October 2003, with Bob Pain and Brigitte Stepputtis, she launched a design company called "Showroom Dummies". Work has included cushions, blankets, uniforms and wall coverings. She asked artists to adapt plastic skulls. Sarah Lucas cast one in concrete; Peter Blake covered one with the endings of books.
She had a relationship with fellow YBA,
Michael Landy , and is friends withTracey Emin , who said,ee also
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Young British Artists
*Freeze exhibitionExternal links
* [http://www.showroomdummies.com/page06.html Showroom Dummies]
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp70181&rNo=0&role=sit Photo of Abigail Lane]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20051202/ai_n15906942 Article on Abigail Lane]
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