Day 365
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006)
Windflower, 1975
Ian Hamilton Finlay was many things: a poet, writer, philosopher and gardener. His legacy lies at Little Sparta, Stonypath; a classical garden he created in 1966 within a Scottish moor, that celebrates the power of words within a natural environment […]
Day 364
Lucy Gunning (1964-)
Climbing Around My Room (1993)
Lucy Gunning works with film, video and performance. She became known for her video piece Climbing Around My Room (1993) which shows a female figure in a crimson dress attempting to find her way around a room, using only its […]
Day 363
Jem Finer (1955-)
¡Arriba!, 2012
Jem Finer is a UK-based artist, musician and composer; and a founder member of the Pogues. Since studying computer science in the 1970s, he has worked with photography, film, experimental and popular music and installation. On 1 January 2000, his musical composition ‘Longplayer’ […]
Day 362
Jeanne van Heeswijk (1965-)
2Up 2Down/Homebaked, The Anfield Tour, 2012
Jeanne van Heeswijk works with people. Her socially engaged practice shows her ongoing commitment to working with communities; to instigate social awareness and effect change. For the past two and a half years she has been working with the community […]
Day 361
John Akomfrah (1957-)
The Unfinished Conversation, 2012
John Akomfrah is an artist, lecturer and writer; but is primarily known for his films. He was one of the founders of the Black Audio Film Collective, active between 1982 and 1998; and which examined issues of Black British identity through film and […]
Day 360
Doug Aitken (1968-)
The Source, 2012
Aitken’s body of work ranges from photography, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to narrative films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, and installations. Recently he has recorded conversations; for example, in 2006 he made Broken Screen: 26 Conversations with Doug Aitken, a book […]
Day 359
Paul McCarthy (1945-)
Complex Shit, 2008
Paul McCarthy is is one of the most influential artists of his generation. His work is provocative and disturbing; a number of his installations reveal the dark side of popular culture as he transforms characters such as Pinocchio and Santa Claus […]
Day 358
Superflex: Jakob Fenger (1968-), Rasmus Nielsen (1969 -) and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen (1969)
Liverpool to Let, 2012
Superflex are an collective based in Copenhagen; a group of artist–designer–activists committed to social and economic change. They produce what they call ‘tools’ – proposals and projects that invite people to join […]
Day 357
Maud Sulter (1960-2008)
Terpsichore, 1992
Working with installation, photography and video, Maud Sulter addressed issues of the representation of black women in Western culture. Her series Zabat is a cycle of studio portraits of creative black women, each representing one of the nine muses of classical antiquity. The […]