Sam Taylor Wood

Sam Taylor Wood is a Turner Prize nominee from 1998, only losing to painter Chris Ofili, but winning the llly Cafe Prize for most promising young artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale.   She is part of the Young British Artists alongside Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst.

She now is a film-maker, photographer and visual artist in Hollywood making films such as Nowhere Boy, about the youth of the late Beatles legend, John Lennon.

Taylor Wood began life in fine art photography in the 1990s with a collaboration with Henry Bond titled the 26th October 1993 featuring the pair of them in roles of Yoko Ono and John Lennon (photographer Annie Leibovitz) just hours previous to the shooting of Lennon.  This would have been the pivotal moment on her decision to make Nowhere Boy film.

Here is one of her short films about decay and death entitled A Little Death (2002).

This second video is called A Still Life (2001) is very like a Caravaggio still life of a fruit bowl transforming from a beautiful display of excellent quality into a mass of rotten mess.

This second video is called A Still Life (2001).

Both of these video seem to speed through and be like a time lapse taken over a period of time to focus on the decay of the food that is available to us.  It shows the use of a time delay that has been taken, to cover the full time that the food or animal goes from fresh to decayed and fit for the bucket.  The pieces although not described by the artist seem to be near a window as the re is strong natural light coming from the left hand side.

Thanks for watching!

Angela