2004-04-20

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Sam Taylor-Wood was born in 1967 and graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1990. 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 within the social group. In films such as Ascension (2003), and photographs such as Bound Ram (2001) and Sleep (2002), Taylor-Wood explores the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, fusing religious imagery informed by Renaissance and Baroque painting with the secular, urban and contemporary landscape that she inhabits.