Helen Chadwick - Laura Smith

Helen Chadwick (1953–1996) embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the "traditional" or "beautiful." Her sculpture, performance, and photography is radical, provocative, and often steeped in humor, and employs unusual, sometimes grotesque materials—bodily fluids, meat, flowers, chocolate, and compost among them. She quickly became a leading figure among BritainÂ’s postwar avant- garde, becoming one of the first women to be nominated for the Turner Prize. A dedicated... Zobrazit více