Tim Noble & Sue Webster

Joy of Sex Erased, (series 2) 2009
Caran D'Ache pencils, paper

Tim Noble (born 1966) and Sue Webster (born 1967) are artists based in England, whose work is collected by Charles Saatchi. They are associated with the post-YBA generation of artists emerging after the Young British Artists of the 1990s. Tim Noble was born in Stroud, and Sue Webster in Leicester. They live and work together in Shoreditch, East London. Some of their notable pieces are made from piles of rubbish collected from London streets. A light is projected against the pile and the shadow on the wall creates an entirely different image, typically one of the couple themselves: this is not at all apparent from looking directly at the pile. Since their first solo show in London, British Rubbish in 1996, Noble & Webster have enjoyed international recognition with solo exhibitions at Rockefeller Plaza, New York 2008, The Freud Museum, London 2006, CAC Malaga 2005, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2004, P.S.1/MoMA, New York 2003, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK 2002, Deste Foundation, Athens 2000 and The Chisenhale Gallery, London 11010. Their work was included in Statuephilia =Contemporary Sculptors at The British Museum‘, London in 2008–09 and in the exhibition Apocalypse =Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art‘, at The Royal Academy, London 2000. In 2007, Noble & Webster were awarded the ARKEN Prize at Arken, Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen and their critically acclaimed project Polymorphous Pervese at the Freud Museum was nominated for the prestigious South Bank Prize.