SELECTED WORKS BY Noble and Webster
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Noble and Webster
Puny Undernourished Kid
2004
40 x multi coloured neon sections 4 x transformers
284 x 180 cm |
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Tim Noble and Sue Webster have developed their own cult of personality as the enfants terrible of contemporary art. Keeping it real with their affinity to working class culture, their self-portraits have been made from garbage, dead animals, and in the form of Neanderthals.
Their work also includes large electric light drawings of tattoo iconography and bling logos. In Girlfriend From Hell and Puny Undernourished Kid, Noble & Webster combine these aspects of their practice making a further self-referential chapter in their rebel epic. |
Noble and Webster
Girlfriend From Hell
2004
42 x multi coloured neon sections 5 x transformers
280 x 210 cm |
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Based on two drawings they made early in their career in 1996, Noble & Webster re-work their impoverished doodles in grand-scale neon. Bad-kids-done-good, paying homage to the high art conceptualism of Bruce Nauman, in a media best associated with liquor stores. |
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ARTIST INFORMATION
Noble and Webster's BIOGRAPHY
Tim Noble
1966
Born in Stroud
Sue Webster
1967
Born in Leicester
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Glory Hole, Bortolami Dayan, New York City
The Joy of Sex, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The New Barbarians, CAC Malaga, Centro de Arte Contemporanea de Malaga, Spain
2005
Modern Art is Dead, Modern Art, London
Tim Noble & Sue Webster, M.F.A. Boston
2003
P.S.1/M.O.M.A., Long Island City, New York
2002
Real Life is Rubbish, Statements at Art/Basel Miami
Black Magic, MW Projects, London
Ghastly Arrangements, Milton Keynes Gallery
2001
Instant Gratification, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
2000
Masters of the Universe, DESTE Foundation, Athens
British Wildlife, Modern Art, London
I Love You, Deitch Projects, New York
1999
The New Barbarians, Chisenhale Gallery, London
The New Barbarians, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
1998
WOW, Modern Art Inc, London
Vague Us, Habitat, King's Road, London
1997
Home Chance, 20 Rivington Street, London
1996
British Rubbish, Independent Art Space, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art, MCA Sydney, Australia
Sculpture Now, Honor Fraser, The Jaxon House, Venice
2004
Jewellery by contemporary artists, Louisa Guiness Gallery, London
Beauty and the Beast, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea do Trento e Rovereto, Italy
The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Monument to Now / The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London
2003
Perpetual Bliss, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropas, Paris
Skulptur 03, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
When Phillip met Isabella, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
The Fourth Sex – Adolescent Extremes, Statione Leopolda, Florence, Italy
2002
Melodrama, Cenro Jose Guerrero, Granada, Museo de Arte Contemporanea,, Spain
When Phillip met Isabella, The Design Museum, London
Art Crazy Nation show, Milton Keynes Gallery
2001
Short Cuts, Nicosia Municipul Arts Centre, Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Nicosia, Cyprus
2001 A Space Oddity, Colony Rooms Artists' show, A22 Projects, London
Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (curated by Jeffrey Deitch)
Casino 2001, SMAK, Gent, Belguim
Tattoo Show, Modern Art, London
Electrify Me!, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Recent Acquisitions from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
The 1st Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
London Orphan Asylum, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania
2000
London Orphan Asylum, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Exposure, The Doran Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Apocalypse: Beauty & Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Man, Body in Art from 1950-2000, Arken Museum, Copenhagen
Sex and the British, Galerie Thaddaes Ropac, Salzburg / Paris
London Orphan Asylum, curated by Gilda Williams, Open Space, Milan
1999
Shopping, 15-21 Ganton Street, London, FAT Bag Project
1998
Supastore Supastars, Tomato, London
11th Recontres Video Art Plastique, Herouville Saint-Clair, France
Let's play risk, Juice Bar, London
Internationales Videofenster, Basel, Switzerland
DOT Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
The Whole Year Inn, the agency, London
Impakt Festival for audiovisual arts, Utrecht, The Netherlands
1997-98
John Kobal Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
1997
Livestock Market, Rivington St. & Charlotte Rd., London
Irredeemable Skeletons, Shillam + Smith 3, London
Non Stop Body Rock, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Unique!, Kunstpark Ost, Munich
Turning the Table, live DJ event, Chisenhale Gallery London (show organisers)
1996
Glass shelf show, artists multiples. ICA, London
Special Offer, Art chain store, London
Roadworks, (curated by FAT) site specific bus shelter project
Fool's Rain, (curated by Max Wigram) ICA, London
Yerself is Steam, 85 Charlotte Street, London
Mission Impossible, Bricks and Kicks, Vienna
Try, Royal college of Art, London / as part of the VAA course
Bitter Twist, Unge Kunstneres Samford, Oslo, Norway
New Contemporaries, Liverpool Tate, Camden Arts, London
1995
Postscript, Lisson Gallery, London
Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery, London
Hanging Picnic, Hoxton Square, London
Self Storage, Art Angel (with Brian Eno & Laurie Anderson), Wembley, London
Young British Artists, EIGEN + ART at IAS, London
1994
Absolut Art, Royal College of Art, London
Fete worse than death, Hoxton Square, London
Hijack, Artvertising project, New York, London, Berlin
1993
Lift, Atlantis basement, Brick lane, London (exhibition organizers)
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