Artist-Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Top left: dirty white trash, top right: he/she, bottom left: sunset over manhattan , bottom right: real life is rubbish, sculptures

Tim Noble and Sue Webster, England based artists, 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. 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, by combining elements of sculpture, advertising and the persona, the artists have succeeded in making their lives and the experience of the viewer part of the art.

Sue and Tim met whilst studying on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Nottingham Trent University in the 80's.Few years later Tim also received a MA in Sculpture from the Royal Collage of 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, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK,2002 and Deste Foundation, Athens, 2000.