The YBAs – the Young British Artists – are still regarded as the last exciting art crop, when a rock n roll attitude, all fearlessness and booze, chimed in with Britpop to bring glamour and fun back to the scene, accentuated by big personalities like Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, and Tracy Emin and of course some groundbreaking work, most famously showcased at Charles Saatchi’s Sensation exhibition in 1997.
Yet while the reputation of those big artists remains - and their work still sells - there is an important contemporary of theirs. studying Fine Art at Goldsmith’s around the same time as Hirst, who is mostly ignored by the history books/Wikipedia.
