In this section, however, we will only consider four seminal works. There are several important Jenny Saville drawings and paintings that can be discussed as seminal works by the artist. Her fleshy works are painted in a way that the artist’s brush seems to be massaging the flesh of enormous female bodies, bruised and painful. Jenny Saville’s paintings have an incredible physicality to them and within the paint, one sees flesh. Her use of charcoal and pastels enable her to create more dynamic and layered drawings and paintings, as opposed to her earlier thick oil paintings that were fleshier and more static. Her work now also includes charcoal and pastels. Torso (2004 – 2005) by Jenny Saville, oil on canvas Diego Carannante from Rome, Italy, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Saville’s new work is still primarily concerned with the human body, but instead of only painting the female nude, she now also references motherhood, ancient myth, and art history. Motherhood greatly influenced Saville’s work and her children’s spontaneity persuaded her to take a freer approach to her choice of material and subject matter. Saville moved from Italy black to the UK in 2014 where she now lives in Oxford with her partner, Paul McPhail, and their two children. She said that she fell in love with the city and her new apartment was also home to her new studio space. Although Saville showcased her work frequently in both the UK and in America, she decided to buy an apartment in Palermo, Italy. Saville, however, never considered herself to be part of this group and found more affinity with American painters, such as Cy Twombly and Willem de Kooning.Īt her core, Jenny Saville is a painter’s painter.
This group of artists included Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, and Tracey Emin, and their work was mostly conceptual in nature. Jenny Saville was soon considered an important artist as part of the “Young British Artists”. This exhibition traveled in 1999 to the Brooklyn Museum, where it was received with much controversy. In 1997, Saville’s work was again showcased in an important exhibition, titled Sensation, hosted by the Royal Academy of Art in London. In this exhibition, Saville is showcased alongside contemporaries including Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, and Damien Hirst.
In the same year, Saville’s paintings were included in an exhibition titled “Young British Artists III” at the Saatchi Gallery. In 1994, Saville returned to the USA where she got the opportunity to observe procedures done by a New York plastic surgeon. Saville remained intrigued by her earlier visit to the USA and was fascinated by the large bodies of women and the rise in popularity of plastic surgery. Saatchi offered Saville an 18-month contract where she could create monumental oil paintings with financial support. This cover grabbed the attention of Charles Saatchi, an important art collector, and advertising executive. Saville graduated with a BFA in 1992 and an image of her graduate exhibition appeared on the cover of the Times Saturday Review. Here she saw an exhibition of unidealized female nudes, an early influence in her career. Saville enjoyed her time at Glasgow School of Art and achieved great success during her studies, receiving a six-month scholarship for exchange studies at the University of Cincinnati in the United States. Saville’s uncle, Paul Saville, was an artist and historian, and as head of the Liberal Arts at Clare College, he was an early influence on her appreciation of art.įollowing her uncle’s advice, Saville pursued an undergraduate degree in art from the Glasgow School of Art in the late 1980s. Saville was interested in art from the age of eight and her parents encouraged her to pursue independent work.
As a child, Saville moved to several different schools, following her father’s dynamic career as a school administrator. Jenny Saville was born in Cambridge on the 7th of May, 1970, to parents working in education. In her important works, Saville presents the female nude with presence, challenging the viewer. Her large fleshy paintings of obese women are also a statement of how many women see themselves. As Saville draws on the history of the nude, she challenges the male gaze by not depicting the typical idea of female beauty as smooth and petite, but rather as imperfect and unidealized. Jenny Saville is a current contemporary British artist who challenges the way that the female nude has been represented throughout art history.
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