The artists

Sam Taylor-Wood

Sam Taylor-Wood was born in 1967 and graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1990, and is closely linked with the 'YBA' generation of artists. Since her first solo exhibition at White Cube in 1995, Taylor-Wood has had numerous solo shows in galleries across Europe and the US.

In 1997 she received the Illy Café prize for most promising young artist at the Venice Biennale and was nominated for the Turner prize in 1998.

In 2002 she was the youngest artist ever to have a solo exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery, and the first woman whose exhibition extended over the entire gallery.

Her work in photography and film is distinguished by an ironic and subversive use of these media, and by its compulsive examination of the place of the individual in a culture obsessed by appearance, and the role of spirituality in contemporary secular society.