Neons by Noble and Webster
Neons by Noble and Webster
Tim Noble (b. 1966, Stroud, UK) and Sue Webster (b. 1967, Leicester, UK) take ordinary things including rubbish, to make assemblages and then point light to create projected shadows which show a great likeness to something identifiable including self-portraits. The art of projection is emblematic of transformative art. The process of transformation, from discarded waste, scrap metal or even taxidermy creatures to a recognizable image, echoes the idea of ‘perceptual psychology’ a form of evaluation used for psychological patients. Noble and Webster are familiar with this process and how people evaluate abstract forms. Throughout their careers they have played with the idea of how humans perceive abstract images and define them with a meaning. The result is surprising and powerful as it redefines how abstract forms can transform into figurative ones.
Parallel to their shadow investigations, Noble and Webster have created a series of light sculptures that reference iconic pop culture symbols represented in the form of shop-front-type signage and carnival shows inherent of British seaside towns, Las Vegas and Times Square. With the aid of complex light sequencing these signs perpetually flash and spiral out messages of everlasting love, and hate.
Noble & Webster have created a remarkable group of anti-monuments in their twelve-year career, mixing the strategies of modern sculpture and the attitude of punk to make art from anti-art. Their work derives much of its power from its fusion of opposites, form and anti-form, high culture and anti-culture, male and female, craft and rubbish, sex and violence.
In 2007, Noble & Webster were awarded the ARKEN Prize at Arken, Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen for outstanding contribution to the international scene of contemporary art, in the same year their critically acclaimed project Polymorphous Perverse at the Freud Museum was nominated for the prestigious South Bank Prize.
Artwork

Forever by Noble and Webster
Forever by Noble and Webster

Golden Showers by Noble and Webster
Golden Showers by Noble and Webster

Happy by Noble and Webster
Happy by Noble and Webster

Let’s Fuck by Noble and Webster
Let’s Fuck by Noble and Webster

I Love Sex by Noble and Webster
I Love Sex by Noble and Webster

Fucking Beautiful by Noble and Webster
Fucking Beautiful by Noble and Webster

$ by Noble and Webster
$ by Noble and Webster

Vicious by Noble and Webster
Vicious by Noble and Webster

Puny Undernourished Kid & Girlfriend from Hell by Noble and Webster
Puny Undernourished Kid & Girlfriend from Hell by Noble and Webster
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Kristin Moore: Way Back When
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Holiday Shop
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