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New British Sculpture
British sculptors who came to prominence in the early 1980s by making objects again from found things, craft processes and metaphor.
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Around 1980 a group of young British sculptors moved beyond the austerity of Minimalist and Conceptual art without returning to the welded steel of Anthony Caro's generation. They made objects again, often from everyday things or with hands-on processes, and let those objects carry images and ideas. Tony Cragg arranged coloured plastic fragments picked up from the street into pictures, as in Britain Seen from the North (1981). Bill Woodrow cut shapes from old washing machines and car doors, leaving them attached to their source.
Richard Deacon bent laminated wood and sheet metal into open, ear-like forms; Anish Kapoor coated simple shapes in loose powder pigment; Antony Gormley made lead-covered casts of his own body. They shared a belief in making and metaphor. Deacon, Cragg, Kapoor and Gormley all went on to win the Turner Prize.
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