Top 10 – Outlandish Turner Prize Nominees

7. Sam Taylor-Wood – Nominee, 1998

 

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The director of Fifty Shades Of Grey was once a serious artist. Taylor-Wood exhibited her video work ‘Atlantic’ in the Turner Prize exhibition of 1998, the artist created a feeling of bored and narcissistic affluence. The merging of a cinematic sensibility with high-art photography became increasingly important in her work throughout the 1990s. That particular feeling of bored narcissistic affluence seems to have returned with the lash.

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