Wasted Youth

Partners in both life and art, Noble and Webster entered the international art scene in the mid 1990s with their first critically acclaimed show—"British Rubbish." It was received as a kind of subversive reaction to their art world peers. Ironically it gained them worldwide notoriety. Extravagant, sometimes coarse, and always sharply clever, Wasted Youth is a both a paean to and sly denunciation of modern consumer culture. Their art, deemed "beautiful Baroque Kitsch" by the London Daily Telegraph, challenges our sense of conventional beauty by "rehabilitating the detritus of society and turning it into something pleasing."—the Guggenheim

Tim Noble and Sue Webster's work has been exhibited at many museums and galleries in the US and UK, including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, MoMA's P.S. 1 in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston. Their work is part of the permanent collection at MoMA, the Guggenheim, and Saatchi. In addition to managing Deitch Projects galleries, Jeffrey Deitch is an art writer and art advisor to collectors. Norman Rosenthal has been the Exhibitions Secretary at the Royal Academy of Art in London for more than twenty-five years.