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Boo Saville is a contemporary artist. She currently lives and works in London

London

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Career

Saville graduated from Slade School of Fine Art

Slade School of Fine Art

The Slade School of Fine Art is a world-renownedart school in London, United Kingdom, and a department of University College London...

in 2004, then worked at a make-shift studio in Pimlico in the front room of her friend Elisa Roche's apartment. Her sister is artist Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville is a contemporary British painter; best known as one of the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of naked women.-Life and career:Saville works and lives in Oxford, England...

and she also moonlights as a member of the band 'So Silage Crew'.

Saville is known mainly for her detailed drawings using Biros as her main material, her work focusing on the decomposition of the body after death.

She has exhibited widely in London and Europe. She received attention when her work was selected by Nicholas Forrest as Critics Choice at Saatchi Online. and had work exhibited in ‘Black Dog- Yellow House’, a group show curated by Rachel Howard

Rachel Howard

Rachel Howard is a British artist.-Early life and career:Rachel Howard grew up in County Durham. She attended a Quaker school from the age of sixteen, and the stories, concerns and questions raised by religion have certainly had a profound effect on her work throughout her career. Howard graduated...

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Her work has been associated with New Gothic Art

New Gothic Art

-Manifesto:The Neo Gothic Art Manifesto was written by gothic artist Charles Moffat in 2001, who also coined the term "Neo Gothic" in an effort to differentiate it from gothic architecture...

. and she runs a blog collecting images and quotes from the internet about death www.bonesanddust.blogspot.com

Selected Solo Exhibitions

- 2009 ‘Ghost/Ghost Proof’ Other Criteria, London
- 2009 ‘Butter Sunk’, Trolley Gallery
  Trolley Gallery
  Trolley Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Shoreditch, east London, which emerged independently and alongside the already established Trolley Books in 2003. The gallery exhibits the work of new, emerging artists and is often host to first solo shows...
  
  , London
- 2008 ‘Laid Bare, Martin Summers Fine Art, London

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