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Anya Gallaccio
Shortlisted: 2003

Anya Gallaccio is well known for working with unconventional materials - ice, flowers, chocolate, grass, sugar, candles - which react and change over a period of time. She has said 'I see my work as being a performance and collaboration. there is unpredictability in the materials and collaborations I get involved in. Making a piece of work becomes about chance - not just imposing will on something, but acknowledging its inherent qualities.'

As long as there were any roads to amnesia and anaesthesia still to be explored 2002 Seven felled oak trees © Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York Photo: Steve White

Anya Gallaccio was born in Paisely, Scotland in 1963. She is nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003, for the solo presentations of her work at Tate Britain and the Ikon Gallery in which she furthered her explorations of the tension between organic and traditional sculptural materials, such as sugar, wax and bronze, 'to create poetic works which encapsulate the passing of time.'

This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.

View Anya Gallaccio in the Tate Collection