Abigail Lane (born 1967) is a Young British Artist (YBA) and was one of the exhibitors at the 1988 Freeze exhibition. Young British Artists is the name given to a collective of conceptual artists based in the United Kingdom. ... Freeze was the title of an art exhibition organised by Damien Hirst and other students from Goldsmiths College. ...

Abigail Lane was born in Penzance. Her parents separated when she was 4, and she left with her sister, Esther, to live with her mother and stepfather. She attended the Free School (where there were "no rules"), then studied at Bristol Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College. She was a co-curator of the Freeze show, along with Damien Hirst, Gary Hume and Sarah Lucas. This is seen as the inauguration of what later became known as Britart. Karsten Schubert gave her the first solo show in 1997. She has since shown at the Victoria Miro Gallery and abroad. Part of the UWE campus at Frenchay Another view of the Frenchay campus The University of the West of England (abbrev. ... Goldsmiths College (founded in 1891 by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as Goldsmiths Technical and Recreative Institute) has been a part of the federal University of London since 1904, when it took its current name. ... Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is a British cocksucker and the most famous artist of the group that has been dubbed Young British Artists (or YBAs). ... Gary Hume (born 1962) is a British artist. ... Sarah Lucas (born 1962) is an artist who came to prominence as one of the Young British Artists or yBAs. ... Karsten Schubert is an Austrian born London based artists representative and former gallerist. ...

Her work is based on late Victorian displays such as séances, circus imagery and magic shows. It has included wallpaper with a repeated design of images of her rear, scratching and scraping noises heard behind a shut door and wax replicas of bodily fragments suspended from the ceiling.

Since 1996 she has lived and worked in a 6,000 sq ft warehouse in a Hackney Wick industrial estate. The Lee River at Hackney Wick from the Eastway bridge, August 2005. ...

In October 2003, with Bob Pain and Brigitte Stepputtis, she launched a design company called "Showroom Dummies". Work has included cushions, blankets, uniforms and wall coverings. She asked artists to adapt plastic skulls. Sarah Lucas cast one in concrete; Peter Blake covered one with the endings of books. Blakes album cover For the New Zealand yachtsman, see Sir Peter Blake. ...

She had a relationship with fellow YBA, Michael Landy, and is friends with Tracey Emin, who said, Michael Landy (born 1963) is a British artist, one of the so-called Young British Artists (YBAs). ... Tracey Emin (born 3 July 1963) is an English artist of Turkish Cypriot origin, one of the so-called Young British Artists (YBAs). ...

Abigail could show the contents of her fridge and it would be fantastic. Everything she does has an artistic quality to it, whether she's cooking a meal or arranging a shelf. She can do anything from interior design to styling to making art; her problem, if anything, is that she's too good at too many things.

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See also

• Young British Artists
• Freeze exhibition

Young British Artists or YBAs is the name given to a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the United Kingdom, most (though not all) of whom attended Goldsmiths College in London. ... Freeze was the title of an art exhibition organised by Damien Hirst and other students from Goldsmiths College. ...

External links

• Showroom Dummies
• Photo of Abigail Lane
• Article on Abigail Lane