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3 unusual facts about Young British Artists


20th-century art

The last decade of the century saw a fusion of earlier ideas in work by Jeff Koons, who made large sculptures from kitsch subjects, and in the UK, the Young British Artists, where Conceptual Art, Dada and Pop Art ideas led to Damien Hirst's exhibition of a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine.

Brit Pack

The Young British Artists of the 1990s including Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst, sometimes referred to as the "Brit Pack"

Stuckism in Australia

The Stuckists have since become an accepted part of the UK art scene and are studied in the educational system, but still remain largely ostracised by the art establishment for their stringent criticisms of it, particularly of the Britart, the Saatchi Gallery and the Turner Prize.


Angela Bulloch

Angela Bulloch (born 1966 in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada), is an artist who often works with sound and installation; she is recognised as one of the Young British Artists.

Karsten Schubert

His 1988 group show of Ian Davenport, Gary Hume and Michael Landy was one of the first commercial gallery shows of artists that would later come to be known as Young British Artists (YBA).


see also

Life Class

David Boyd Haycock's A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (Old Street Publishing, 2009) presents the remarkable "true story" that lies behind Barker's novel.

Tacita Dean

In 1995, she was included in General Release: Young British Artists held at the XLVI Venice Biennale.

The Wilson Sisters

Jane and Louise Wilson, British artists, often known as part of the Young British Artists (YBA) generation