Abigail Lane
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Abigail Lane (born 1967) is a Young British Artist (YBA) and was one of the exhibitors at the 1988 Freeze exhibition.
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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, University of London. 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.
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.
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.
She had a relationship with fellow YBA, Michael Landy, and is friends with Tracey Emin, who said,
| “ | 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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