Everything about Sam Taylor-wood totally explained
Sam Taylor-Wood (born
London,
England,
4 March 1967) is a contemporary artist working mostly in
video and
photography. She has been identified as a member of the
young British Artist group, and is a graduate of
Goldsmiths College. She is married to her art dealer
Jay Jopling.
Taylor-Wood's parents divorced when she was a teenager, and she moved with her mother and stepfather to a New Age commune in
Surrey. It is commonly believed that Sam's mother abandoned the family when her daughter was sixteen and she moved into a bed-sit to live alone, but in reality Sam moved to Brighton to attend fashion college with her boyfriend at the time (
Jake Chapman) before her mother left. Having fared poorly in exams, it took Taylor-Wood several years to gain the required qualification for entry into art school. After a year at a North London Polytechnic, she transferred to Goldsmiths College to complete a Fine Art degree in
1990.
Jobs at the
Royal Opera House, and managed the
Camden Palace nightclub. In 1991 her work began to appear in a number of group exhibitions alongside that of contemporaries from Goldsmiths. Her breakthrough came in 1994 with the work
Killing Time in which four people mimed an opera score. From that point multi-screen video works became the main focus of Taylor-Wood's work. Beginning with the video works
Travesty of a Mockery and
Pent-Up in
1996, Taylor-Wood began to use professional actors. Her work since 1996 has often featured celebrity friends:
Elton John was included in a large photo-work, and commissioned Taylor-Wood to make a promotional video starring
Robert Downey Jr. for one of his records. In
2002, Taylor-Wood was commissioned by the
National Portrait Gallery to make a video portrait of
David Beckham sleeping.
She is also a long-time collaborator with
Pet Shop Boys having produced films for their
Somewhere concerts at the
Savoy Theatre, London. She has also been guest vocalist on two Pet Shop Boys produced songs - in the Boys' rendition of
Serge Gainsbourg's "
Je t'aime... moi non plus" and
Donna Summer's "
Love to Love You Baby". For the latter of these two releases, she used the pseudonym
Kiki Kokova. In October 2008, another Sam Taylor-Wood and Pet Shop Boys collaboration is due, this time it'll be a cover of "
I'm in love with a German film star" by
the Passions, accompanied by a video driected by
Baillie Walsh.
Taylor-Wood was nominated for the
Turner Prize in 1997.
In 2008 she directed a short film "Love You More", written by
Patrick Marber, which has been nominated for the short-film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. She is planning to direct a full length feature film, "The Story Of You", an adaptation of
Julie Myerson's 2007 novel.
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