New British Sculpture is the name given to the work of a group of artists, sculptors and installation artists who began to exhibit together in London, England, in the early 1980s, including Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Shirazeh Houshiary, and Richard Wentworth.[1]
Tim Woods has characterized the movement by identifying four major themes, "(a) a synthesis of pop and kitsch, (b) a bricolage (assemblage) of the decaying UK urban environment and the waste of consumer society, (c) an exploration of the way in which objects are assigned meanings, and (d) a play of colour, wit and humour."[2] An early champion was art dealer Nicholas Logsdail who exhibited many of the artists at his Lisson Gallery.
Artists
- Edward Allington
- Stephen Cox
- Grenville Davey
- Richard Deacon
- Barry Flanagan
- Anthony Gormley
- Shirazeh Houshiary
- Anish Kapoor
- Julian Opie
- Boyd Webb
- Richard Wentworth
- Rachel Whiteread
- Alison Wilding
- Bill Woodrow
References
- ^ a b Tate Collection New British Sculpture
- ^ Tim Woods, Beginning Postmodernism (Manchester: MUP, 1999), p.126. Preview available on Amazon reader