Sam Taylor-Wood OBEBrontosaurus 1995

Informed by cinematic and documentary traditions, Taylor-Wood has been working with photography, film and video in London since the early 1990s. She presents characters in situations of isolation and self-absorption, their familiar, even mundane, surroundings and poses belying more or less hidden states of emotional crisis. The actors she uses are often presented in relation to each other using split screens or panoramic viewpoints in order to 'gather a complete series of human feelings … to explain the entire range of the emotional or existential world' (Celant, p.270)… (read more)