Sue Webster - Seeing Red London Saturday, March 16, 2024 | Phillips
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    Sue Webster

    • 1967

    Sue Webster is an artist who established her reputation in the mid-1990s, working with her then-
    partner Tim Noble. Together they rose to prominence making abstract shadow sculptures
    assembled from seemingly random objects. These sculptures, when lit by a single light source
    transformed into representational self-portraits. To make something from nothing became an
    important part of their DIY signature approach, influenced in part by the philosophy of British Punk.
    Alongside their shadow sculptures, they also took light sculpture into a different realm, creating signs
    which perpetually flash out messages of everlasting love, as well as hate.


    In 2002 Webster famously collaborated with Sir David Adjaye – one of the world's most imaginative
    and sought-after architects. The Dirty House in Shoreditch, was the first of two distinctive and
    ambitious residential projects realized together. More recently they saved the ultimate structure-with-
    a-story, taking the infamous Mole Man of Hackney's derelict ruin and transforming it into a bespoke
    home and studio which won best London dwelling in the 2021 New London Architecture Awards.


    Webster published her second visual biography I Was a Teenage Banshee in 2019. A
    Künstlerroman (artist's coming of age novel), the book combines personal memoir with a visual
    narrative of her evolution as an artist, and describes how listening to Siouxsie and the Banshees
    helped guide her through a troubled adolescence. Webster’s most recent body of work Full Leather
    Jackets (2019-2021) continues her exploration of the bands ongoing influence on her life and work.

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The Next Offender

signed 'Sue Webster' on the overlap
oil on canvas
200 x 160 cm (78 3/4 x 62 7/8 in.)
Painted in 2024.

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