Since their first meeting whilst searching through a rubbish skip looking for art materials during their art student days, Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been astounding the art world with their ‘street compositions’ lifelike sculptures created from found objects.
Their most recent solo exhibition in 2012 was held in London’s Blair Southern Gallery and consisted of six large scale autobiographical sculptures constructed from piles of broken objects and scrap wood all found by the artists. These apparent heaps of ‘junk’ were transformed into realistic shadow images of the artists themselves when illuminated at a certain angle by a light projector.
The theme running through the exhibition was that of opposites and paradox, from the title and the content of light and shadow, figurative and abstract, hope and despair. This alternative couple exhibit a unique skill within their work, created through a take on ‘perceptual psychology’ - a form of evaluation of psychiatric patients using an individual’s perception of an abstract form. Towards the end of the construction period of this exhibition the artists decided to separate ‘for the sake of art’ - the breakdown of their relationship can be observed through the very powerful shadow images of their work.
