Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Jessie: Found an interview in Sculpture, March 2004, pages 22 - 23, with Tim Noble and Sue Webster. They turn rubbish into complex sculptures and installations, often using light and shadows. Quite often too, they do works that are self portraits.

They pile up heaps of rubbish and when a light is placed behind it the shadow created is not what you would expect. This one is called "A Couple of Dirty Fucking Rats". Not a self portrait surely...

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The interview was fairly short, but their views on artists and making art are interesting. They talk about how some artists end up just "working for the system", being booked for shows everywhere, and letting someone else determine what is made and when; and how some become bigger then their work and that it doesn't matter how good their work is. They end up saying that "Artists have to be a bit more anonymous and let the work take stage".