Germaine Greer Oct 8, 2007
He has never explained why some of our most distinguished artists - David Hockney, Anthony Caro or Peter Blake as well as Sarah Lucas, Jenny Saville or Marc Quinn - have never featured on the shortlist. There is every possibility that an un-Turner prize, for which the only qualification for candidates would be that they had never been shortlisted, would be more interesting and more fun, and heaven knows it could easily be worth more money, than the Turner prize itself. (Guardian Unlimited)
Georg Baselitz Praises Damien Hirst, Gives Upside-Down View of Art World Sep 24, 2007
Baselitz: Damien Hirst, Peter Doig, Marc Quinn, and Jenny Saville. Schatz: Your works are seen as quite German. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Women's worlds, from many corners of the world Sep 9, 2007
A large, expressionistically painted canvas by Jenny Saville offers a full-frontal portrait of a nude hermaphrodite. Some pieces are funny: see, for example, Hiroko Okada's photograph "Future Plan #2," which depicts two grinning young men in underwear who appear to be seven or eight months pregnant. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Call for Artists: Step Into Leonardo's Shoes - 5 Day intensive Anatomy Drawing Workshop Jun 21, 2007
The figure in art history is discussed with reference to art from diverse cultures, from the work of Leonardo himself, to Rodin, Alice Neel, Jenny Saville, and Hokusai. Topics include: muscles, tendons, fascia, joints, bones, movement, expression, human development, perspective, proportion, and the golden section. (AbsoluteArts.com)
The Museo Carlo Bilotti: A big dream and an ego to match Nov 25, 2006
The first temporary exhibition consisted of three captivating "meditation chapels" that Bilotti had commissioned from three of the world's most important contemporary artists: Damien Hirst, David Salle and Jenny Saville. The current offering is a show of late de Koonigs, which came direct from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. (International Herald Tribune)
- Jonathan Jones: If you like Ron Mueck, you need to get out more Aug 9, 2006
The best way to understand his appeal is to recognise that he is your common or garden realistic figurative artist, who has translated into the mass-media technology of our time the same piddling mediocre misery that British painters from Euan Uglow to Jenny Saville have lumbered us with. It's that vaguely pathetic, tedious tradition the critic David Sylvester dubbed "kitchen sink", remade in silicone and fibreglass. (Guardian Unlimited)
