Born: Glasgow, 1966

Douglas Gordon's List of Names begins as a struggle in the artist's memory to account for all the people he has met in his life. The name of each remembered person is inscribed on the wall, testament to their existence and also to their continued relevance in Gordon's life. Each time the piece is remade, the task of remembering and recording is begun again, so each list differs from its predecessor and is inevitably incomplete.

At first sight, the work resembles the war memorials that can be found throughout Britain. But List of Names memorialises not the death of the individuals cited, but their lives. It is personal rather than monumental, and acts to trigger the imagination. Celebrity names are instantly recognisable, but tell us little. Instead, viewers might try to draw their own connections between the people mentioned, or perhaps imagine the work as the artist's credits, like the names that appear at the end of a film.