Sam Taylor-Wood was born in Croydon, London in 1967. She is a Photographer, Filmmaker and a Conceptual Artist.
At the age nine Wood’s father, a Biker left and that induce her mother, a Yoga Teacher and a Astrologist to enroll the family in a commune in Sussex, where they wore orange robes and took sanskrit names, all of which Wood hated. When Wood was 30 years old she suffered from late diagnosed colon cancer and three years later she was diagnosed with breast cancer; she asserts that chemotherapy saved her life together with her own will to live.
Wood worked as a bartender and dresser at the Royal Opera House and managed the Camden Palace Nightclub. Went to a Art School in Hastings and Graduated from Goldsmiths College, also began exhibiting Fine - Art Photography in the early 90‘s; in 1994 she exhibited a multi-screen video work titled “Killing Time” in which four people act out to an opera score, from
that point multi-screen video works became the main focus of her work; in 1997 She was nominated for the Turner Prize and won the Illy Café Prize for Most Promising Young Artist at the 47th Venice Biennale.
Sam Taylor Wood photographs are creative and very different to others photographers that I have seen by the way she planned and manage to put it together, but I dislike her films because they all have repetition and the same significance; mostly I did not quite understand like Pieta (2001) a woman sited on a stairs holding a man that seems to be unconscious also Breach(2001) a young woman crying sited on the floor.
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4PjMuIhwdA
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21rNYKQg6v8&feature=related
