Sue Webster for ARCSOC Talks

Описание: Join us for a conversation with artist Sue Webster and Dr James Campbell, head of the Department of Architecture.

Sue Webster is an artist who established her reputation in the mid-1990s, working with her then-partner Tim Noble. Together they rose to prominence making abstract shadow sculptures assembled from seemingly random objects. These sculptures, when lit by a single light source transformed into representational self-portraits. To make something from nothing became an important part of their DIY signature approach, influenced in part by the philosophy of British Punk. Alongside their shadow sculptures, they also took light sculpture into a different realm, creating signs which perpetually flash out messages of everlasting love, as well as hate.


In 2002 Webster famously collaborated with Sir David Adjaye – one of the world's most imaginative and sought-after architects. The Dirty House in Shoreditch, was the first of two distinctive and ambitious residential projects realised together. More recently they saved the ultimate structure-with-a-story, taking the infamous Mole Man of Hackney's derelict ruin and transforming it into a bespoke home and studio.


Webster has recently completed her second visual biography I Was a Teenage Banshee (2019) A Künstlerroman (artist's coming of age novel) which combines personal memoir with a visual narrative of her evolution as an artist. It describes how listening to Siouxsie and the Banshees helped guide Webster through a troubled adolescence and details the band's ongoing influence on her life and work.

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Architecture Society of the University of Cambridge
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Special Thanks to:
Sue Webster
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