Anya Gallaccio

Anya Gallaccio
Born1963 (age 60–61)
EducationKingston Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College
MovementYoung British Artists
FatherGeorge Gallaccio

Anya Gallaccio (born 1963)[1] is a Scottish[2] artist, who creates site-specific, minimalist installations and often works with organic matter (including chocolate, sugar, flowers and ice).

Her use of organic materials results in natural processes of transformation and decay, meaning that Gallaccio is unable to predict the result of her installations.[3] Something which at the start of an exhibition may be pleasurable, such as the scent of flowers or chocolate, would inevitably become increasingly unpleasant over time.[4] The timely and site-specific nature of her work makes it notoriously difficult to document. Her work therefore challenges the traditional notion that an art object or sculpture should essentially be a monument within a museum or gallery. Instead her work often lives through the memory of those that saw and experienced it – or the concept of the artwork itself.[5]

  1. ^ Great women artists. Phaidon Press. 2019. p. 16. ISBN 978-0714878775.
  2. ^ "Delicious or revolting? The strange taste of chocolate art". BBC News. 6 September 2024. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  3. ^ exhibit-e.com. "Anya Gallaccio - Artists - Lehmann Maupin". www.lehmannmaupin.com. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  4. ^ "Turner Prize 2003 artist: Anya Gallaccio | Tate". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Anya Gallaccio, preserve 'beauty'' 1991–2003". Tate. Retrieved 22 May 2016.