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'''Anya Gallaccio''' (born 1963)<ref name="Phaidon Editors">{{cite book|title=Great women artists |date=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0714878775 |page=16}}</ref> is a Scottish<ref>{{cite web |title=Delicious or revolting? The strange taste of chocolate art |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdk4v1d050o |website=BBC News |access-date=14 September 2024 |date=6 September 2024}}</ref> artist, who creates ], ] ] and often works with organic matter (including chocolate, sugar, flowers and ice).
] and ] '']'' with Gallaccio's installation in foreground, 1990.]]
⚫ Anya Gallaccio was born in ], ] to TV producer ] and actress ], and studied at ] and ]. In 1988—the year she graduated from Goldsmiths—she exhibited in the ]-curated ''Freeze'' exhibition, and in 1990 the ] and ] organized ] shows, which brought together many of the ]. Gallaccio is a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).<ref></ref>


Her use of organic materials results in natural processes of transformation and decay, meaning that Gallaccio is unable to predict the result of her installations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/anya-gallaccio#13|title=Anya Gallaccio - Artists - Lehmann Maupin|last=exhibit-e.com|website=www.lehmannmaupin.com|access-date=2016-05-22}}</ref> Something which at the start of an exhibition may be pleasurable, such as the scent of flowers or chocolate, would inevitably become increasingly unpleasant over time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2003/turner-prize-2003-artist-anya-gallaccio|title=Turner Prize 2003 artist: Anya Gallaccio {{!}} Tate|website=www.tate.org.uk|access-date=2016-05-22}}</ref> The timely and site-specific nature of her work makes it notoriously difficult to document. Her work therefore challenges the traditional notion that an art object or sculpture should essentially be a monument within a museum or gallery. Instead her work often lives through the memory of those that saw and experienced it – or the concept of the artwork itself.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/anya-gallaccio-2658|title=Anya Gallaccio, preserve 'beauty'<nowiki/>' 1991–2003|website=Tate|access-date=2016-05-22}}</ref>
⚫ 2005 saw the publication of ''Anya Gallaccio: Silver Seed'' by ], which accompanied the artist's exhibition commissioned by the Mount Stuart Trust for an installation at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, Scotland.<ref>{{cite web|title=Silver Seed|url=http://www.ridinghouse.co.uk/publications/18/|publisher=Ridinghouse|accessdate=5 August 2012}}</ref>


==Early life==
⚫ In 2006, she was listed on the Pink Power list of 100 most influential gay and lesbian people of 2006.<ref>''The Independent'', (July 2, 2006), . Retrieved June 25, 2007.</ref>
⚫ Born in ], Scotland, to TV producer ] and actress Maureen Morris. She grew up in south west London, England<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/landscape-into-art-anya-gallaccio |title=Landscape into art {{!}} Tate |website=www.tate.org.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006164633/http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/landscape-into-art-anya-gallaccio |archive-date=2014-10-06}}</ref> and studied at ] (1984–85) and ] (1985–88). In 1988 Gallaccio exhibited in the ]-curated '']'' ], and in 1990 the ] and ] organised ] shows, which brought together many of the ]. Gallaccio is a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dah.ucsd.edu/faculty/0809.shtml#Gal |title=UCSD Faculty |publisher=Dah.ucsd.edu |access-date=21 June 2013}}</ref>


==Works==
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Gallaccio is known for producing site-specific works that inhale the prescribed climate and space. She often collaborates closely with nature when selecting materials, exploring life cycles through the passage of time, memory, and loss.<ref name=None>{{cite news|url=https://www.madeinbed.co.uk/en-plein-air/between-architecture-and-nature-anya-gallaccio-ghost-tree|date=September 14, 2022|title=Between Architecture and Nature: Anya Gallaccio's Ghost Tree|work=Made In Bed}}</ref> Much of her work uses organic materials, with fruit, vegetables and flowers all featuring in her work. Sometimes these materials undergo a change during the course of being exhibited.<ref>"". '']''. Retrieved 1 July 2013.</ref>


In ''Red on Green'' (1992), her first solo showing at the ], ten thousand rose heads placed on a bed of their stalks gradually withered as the exhibition went on.<ref>Smee, Sebastian. (May 2004). "". '']''. Retrieved 1 July 2013.</ref> For ''Intensities and Surfaces'' (1996) Gallaccio left a thirty-two ton block of ] with a salt core in the disused ] and allowed it to melt.<ref>Mundy, Jennifer. (13 August 2012). "". ]. Retrieved 1 July 2013.</ref>
⚫ In 2003, Gallaccio was shortlisted for the ]. One of her pieces for the show was ''preserve "beauty"'', 1991–2003, which was made from glass, fixings and 2,000 red ]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/west+midlands/birmingham/art16312 |title=Anya Gallaccio at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham |date=24 April 2003 |publisher=Culture24 |accessdate=27 November 2009}}</ref>


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⚫ At ] in ], the ] commissioned a ] to the east of the great house. "The Sybil Hedge" is an "artlandish" ].<ref>McCarthy, Anna. "Focus on Jeffe Hein," January 2009, p. 3.]</ref> It is based on the signature of the marquis' grandmother, ]. Gallaccio has created a sarcophagus-like marble structure which is sited at the end of a path; and nearby is a copper-beech hedge which is planted in lines mirroring Sybil’s signature.<ref>Donald, Caroline. ''The Times'' (London). May 11, 2008.</ref>
''preserve 'beauty{{'}}'' 1991–2003 was an artwork which Gallaccio produced as a nominee for the 2003 ]. The installation consisted of a wall of gerbera daisies pinned behind a single sheet of glass.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2003/turner-prize-2003-artist-anya-gallaccio|title=Turner Prize 2003 artist: Anya Gallaccio {{!}} Tate|website=www.tate.org.uk|access-date=2016-05-22}}</ref> Behind glass, the flowers recall ] and ] ] paintings, as well as flower arranging and pressing.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gallaccio-preserve-beauty-t11829/text-summary|title=Anya Gallaccio, ''preserve 'beauty'<nowiki/>'' 1991–2003|website=Tate|access-date=2016-05-22}}</ref>


Other works by Gallaccio include ''Stroke'' (1993) in which benches in the gallery and cardboard panels attached to the walls were covered in chocolate,
⚫ == References==
"Two Hundred Kilos of Apples Tied to a Barren Apple Tree", Atelier Amden, Amden, Switzerland (1999) and ''Because Nothing has Changed'' (2000), a ] sculpture of a tree adorned with ] apples.<ref>Schubert, Karsten. (1994). " {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223015058/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/anya_gallaccio/ |date=23 February 2014 }}". '']''. 15. Retrieved 1 July 2013.</ref><ref name="Williams2008">Williams, Eliza. (9 January 2008). " {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223015103/http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/anya_gallaccio/ |date=23 February 2014 }}". ''frieze''. Retrieved 1 July 2013.</ref> ''Because I Could Not Stop'' (2002) is a similar bronze tree but with real apples which are left to rot.<ref name="Williams2008" />
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''Red on Green'' was recreated ten years later for the exhibition ''Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century'' mounted by ] in 2002–2003 and for the 2004 British Council exhibition ''Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/gallaccio-anya-1963|title=Anya Gallaccio {{!}} Artists {{!}} Collection {{!}} British Council – Visual Arts|last=Council|first=British|website=visualarts.britishcouncil.org|access-date=2016-05-22}}</ref>


In ''Stoke'' (2004), Gallaccio coated an old farm building at ]'s ] with almost 90 pounds of 70 percent cocoa, confectioner-quality chocolate. The work invited visitors to lick, touch, and stroke the walls.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thomasdanegallery.com/artists/36-anya-gallaccio/press/|title=Anya Gallaccio - Press {{!}} Thomas Dane Gallery|website=Thomas Dane Gallery|access-date=2016-05-22|archive-date=19 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319055715/http://www.thomasdanegallery.com/artists/36-anya-gallaccio/press/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

⚫ 2005 saw the publication of ''Anya Gallaccio: Silver Seed'' by ], which accompanied the artist's exhibition commissioned by the Mount Stuart Trust for an installation at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, UK.<ref>{{cite web|title=Silver Seed|url=http://www.ridinghouse.co.uk/publications/18/|publisher=Ridinghouse|access-date=5 August 2012}}</ref>

⚫ At ] in Norfolk, the ] commissioned a ] to the east of the great house. "The Sybil Hedge" is an "artlandish" ].<ref>McCarthy, Anna. "Focus on Jeffe Hein", '' {{webarchive|url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20111010164406/http://schools.norfolk.gov.uk/myportal/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/4477/Spr_09_Houghton_Newsletter.doc |date=10 October 2011}}'', January 2009, p. 3.</ref> It is based on the signature of the marquis' grandmother, ]. Gallaccio has created a sarcophagus-like marble structure which is sited at the end of a path; and nearby is a copper-beech hedge which is planted in lines mirroring Sybil's signature.<ref>Donald, Caroline. {{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} ''The Times'' (London). 11 May 2008.</ref>

Commissioned for ] Art Gallery, ''Untitled'' (2016), dubbed the ‘ghost tree’, investigates themes of life, death and nature. Inspired by the removal of a decaying tree, Gallaccio worked from digital scans of the removed tree, later reproducing in ribbons of complex stainless steel plates, a monumental and reflective 'ghost tree'. It has become "a haunting response to loss and a timeless monument to nature."<ref name=None/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://heni.com/talks/ghost-tree|author=Dr Leanne Green|title=Anya Gallaccio's Ghost Tree|work=HENI Talks}}</ref>

In a 2018 interview with ''Ocula'', Gallaccio remarked of the YBA breakout exhibition ''Freeze'': "It feels just as precarious now as it did then. And I think it is good to constantly remind myself of that and not to get complacent. The bravado and the chutzpah of ''Freeze'' was impressive; it was more about a kind of attitude and that is something that has had reverberations."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/anya-gallaccio/|title=A conversation with Anya Gallaccio|work= Ocula|date=2018-05-30|access-date=2018-05-30|language=en}}</ref>

==Awards and acknowledgements==
⚫ In 2006, she was listed on the Pink Power list of 100 most influential gay and lesbian people of 2006.<ref>''The Independent'', (2 July 2006), . Retrieved 25 June 2007.</ref>

⚫ In 2003, Gallaccio was shortlisted for the ] alongside ], ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2003|title=Turner Prize 2003 {{!}} Tate|website=www.tate.org.uk|access-date=2016-05-22}}</ref> One of her pieces for the show was ''preserve "beauty"'', 1991–2003, which was made from glass, fixings and 2,000 red ]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/west+midlands/birmingham/art16312 |title=Anya Gallaccio at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham |date=24 April 2003 |publisher=Culture24 |access-date=27 November 2009}}</ref>

==Exhibitions==
* ''The Light Pours Out of Me,'' ], Edinburgh, UK<ref name="guardian-20210412">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/apr/12/the-great-british-art-tour-a-crystalline-cave-to-dazzle-and-unsettle |title=The Great British Art Tour: a crystalline cave to dazzle and unsettle |last=Feeley |first=Claire |newspaper=The Guardian |date=12 April 2021 |access-date=12 April 2021}}</ref>
* ''Freeze'', Surrey Docks, London, UK <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thomasdanegallery.com/artists/36-anya-gallaccio/biography/|title=Anya Gallaccio {{!}} Thomas Dane Gallery|website=Thomas Dane Gallery|access-date=2016-05-22}}</ref>

⚫ == References ==
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==External links==
* at Lehmann Maupin


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British artist (born 1963)

Anya Gallaccio
Born1963 (age 61–62)
Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
EducationKingston Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College
MovementYoung British Artists
FatherGeorge Gallaccio

Anya Gallaccio (born 1963) is a Scottish artist, who creates site-specific, minimalist installations and often works with organic matter (including chocolate, sugar, flowers and ice).

Her use of organic materials results in natural processes of transformation and decay, meaning that Gallaccio is unable to predict the result of her installations. Something which at the start of an exhibition may be pleasurable, such as the scent of flowers or chocolate, would inevitably become increasingly unpleasant over time. The timely and site-specific nature of her work makes it notoriously difficult to document. Her work therefore challenges the traditional notion that an art object or sculpture should essentially be a monument within a museum or gallery. Instead her work often lives through the memory of those that saw and experienced it – or the concept of the artwork itself.

Early life

Born in Paisley, Scotland, to TV producer George Gallaccio and actress Maureen Morris. She grew up in south west London, England and studied at Kingston Polytechnic (1984–85) and Goldsmiths College (1985–88). In 1988 Gallaccio exhibited in the Damien Hirst-curated Freeze exhibition, and in 1990 the Henry Bond and Sarah Lucas organised East Country Yard shows, which brought together many of the Young British Artists. Gallaccio is a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

Works

Gallaccio is known for producing site-specific works that inhale the prescribed climate and space. She often collaborates closely with nature when selecting materials, exploring life cycles through the passage of time, memory, and loss. Much of her work uses organic materials, with fruit, vegetables and flowers all featuring in her work. Sometimes these materials undergo a change during the course of being exhibited.

In Red on Green (1992), her first solo showing at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, ten thousand rose heads placed on a bed of their stalks gradually withered as the exhibition went on. For Intensities and Surfaces (1996) Gallaccio left a thirty-two ton block of ice with a salt core in the disused pumping station at Wapping and allowed it to melt.

preserve 'beauty' 1991–2003 was an artwork which Gallaccio produced as a nominee for the 2003 Turner Prize. The installation consisted of a wall of gerbera daisies pinned behind a single sheet of glass. Behind glass, the flowers recall still-life and romantic landscape paintings, as well as flower arranging and pressing.

Other works by Gallaccio include Stroke (1993) in which benches in the gallery and cardboard panels attached to the walls were covered in chocolate, "Two Hundred Kilos of Apples Tied to a Barren Apple Tree", Atelier Amden, Amden, Switzerland (1999) and Because Nothing has Changed (2000), a bronze sculpture of a tree adorned with porcelain apples. Because I Could Not Stop (2002) is a similar bronze tree but with real apples which are left to rot.

Red on Green was recreated ten years later for the exhibition Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century mounted by Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 2002–2003 and for the 2004 British Council exhibition Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture.

In Stoke (2004), Gallaccio coated an old farm building at Edinburgh's Jupiter Artland with almost 90 pounds of 70 percent cocoa, confectioner-quality chocolate. The work invited visitors to lick, touch, and stroke the walls.

2005 saw the publication of Anya Gallaccio: Silver Seed by Ridinghouse, which accompanied the artist's exhibition commissioned by the Mount Stuart Trust for an installation at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, UK.

At Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Marquess of Cholmondeley commissioned a folly to the east of the great house. "The Sybil Hedge" is an "artlandish" folly. It is based on the signature of the marquis' grandmother, Sybil Sassoon. Gallaccio has created a sarcophagus-like marble structure which is sited at the end of a path; and nearby is a copper-beech hedge which is planted in lines mirroring Sybil's signature.

Commissioned for The Whitworth Art Gallery, Untitled (2016), dubbed the ‘ghost tree’, investigates themes of life, death and nature. Inspired by the removal of a decaying tree, Gallaccio worked from digital scans of the removed tree, later reproducing in ribbons of complex stainless steel plates, a monumental and reflective 'ghost tree'. It has become "a haunting response to loss and a timeless monument to nature."

In a 2018 interview with Ocula, Gallaccio remarked of the YBA breakout exhibition Freeze: "It feels just as precarious now as it did then. And I think it is good to constantly remind myself of that and not to get complacent. The bravado and the chutzpah of Freeze was impressive; it was more about a kind of attitude and that is something that has had reverberations."

Awards and acknowledgements

In 2006, she was listed on the Pink Power list of 100 most influential gay and lesbian people of 2006.

In 2003, Gallaccio was shortlisted for the Turner Prize alongside Grayson Perry, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Willie Doherty. One of her pieces for the show was preserve "beauty", 1991–2003, which was made from glass, fixings and 2,000 red gerberas.

Exhibitions

  • The Light Pours Out of Me, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK
  • Freeze, Surrey Docks, London, UK

References

  1. Great women artists. Phaidon Press. 2019. p. 16. ISBN 978-0714878775.
  2. "Delicious or revolting? The strange taste of chocolate art". BBC News. 6 September 2024. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  3. exhibit-e.com. "Anya Gallaccio - Artists - Lehmann Maupin". www.lehmannmaupin.com. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  4. "Turner Prize 2003 artist: Anya Gallaccio | Tate". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  5. "Anya Gallaccio, preserve 'beauty'' 1991–2003". Tate. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  6. "Landscape into art | Tate". www.tate.org.uk. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014.
  7. "UCSD Faculty". Dah.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  8. ^ "Between Architecture and Nature: Anya Gallaccio's Ghost Tree". Made In Bed. 14 September 2022.
  9. "Anya Gallaccio – preserve 'beauty' 1991–2003". Tate Gallery. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  10. Smee, Sebastian. (May 2004). "A dying art". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  11. Mundy, Jennifer. (13 August 2012). "Lost Art: Anya Gallaccio". Tate Gallery. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  12. "Turner Prize 2003 artist: Anya Gallaccio | Tate". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  13. "Anya Gallaccio, preserve 'beauty' 1991–2003". Tate. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  14. Schubert, Karsten. (1994). "Anya Gallaccio Archived 23 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine". frieze. 15. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  15. ^ Williams, Eliza. (9 January 2008). "Anya Gallaccio Archived 23 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine". frieze. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  16. Council, British. "Anya Gallaccio | Artists | Collection | British Council – Visual Arts". visualarts.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  17. "Anya Gallaccio - Press | Thomas Dane Gallery". Thomas Dane Gallery. Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  18. "Silver Seed". Ridinghouse. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  19. McCarthy, Anna. "Focus on Jeffe Hein", Houghton Hall Education Newsletter 10 October 2011 at the UK Government Web Archive, January 2009, p. 3.
  20. Donald, Caroline. "The new garden at Houghton Hall, King’s Lynn, Norfolk," The Times (London). 11 May 2008.
  21. Dr Leanne Green. "Anya Gallaccio's Ghost Tree". HENI Talks.
  22. "A conversation with Anya Gallaccio". Ocula. 30 May 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  23. The Independent, (2 July 2006), Gay Power: The pink list. Retrieved 25 June 2007.
  24. "Turner Prize 2003 | Tate". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  25. "Anya Gallaccio at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham". Culture24. 24 April 2003. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
  26. Feeley, Claire (12 April 2021). "The Great British Art Tour: a crystalline cave to dazzle and unsettle". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  27. "Anya Gallaccio | Thomas Dane Gallery". Thomas Dane Gallery. Retrieved 22 May 2016.

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