Sanctuary: Britain's Artists and their Studios

by Hossein Amirsadeghi (Editor)

Huge book showing artists studios with interviews and in depth answers.

Genres: Art

600 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[NZBook Girl]

Fantastic resource. I couldn't possibly read every page but constantly roamed discovering new artists and ways of working. Gigantic weighty and very beautiful tome.

[Jen Duffy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. I initially got it just to look at the photos of different studios but ended up reading every page. Common thread is the dedication and hours worked by each artist. Maybe that's how most of them seem to have several studios around the world.
(Thankfully artists don't have to wait till they're dead for a bit of recognition.) Could also be titled "Rich Artists & Their Studios". Well worth the read.

[Kevin McDonagh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Britishness hunters, Artists and Patrons alike will drool over massive forest facing country studios. “The big book of Household name British Artists” is a collection of top tier artists sharing their pretty light views on work and occasionally politics. Inevitably because of the scale and caliber of the 120 artists, there are nuggets of insight within the texts but actually there is little conversation about their studios or working practices, just occasionally their working hours (all hours) and living circumstances (in the studio). The photography is nice in a country house living magazine kind of way. It’s the kind of book you’d expect to be sitting on the table in one of their country homes. Congrats to all the artists, who steadfastly refused to be pulled into a conversation of Art as a religion.

Everyone seems to share a respect for efforts required to get to a career position in being identified amongst other reknown British Artists, somehow characterised by a Bacon, Freud, greyness; low sky and low light. The YBAs are the shared hangover throughout this book with many sharing their mixed opinions; like recounting antics of a wild 90s party, which seems like it were just last night.

Featured Artists:
Jananne Al-Ani
Darren Almond
Hurvin Anderson
Ron Arad
Frank Auerbach
Charles Avery
Fiona Banner
Claire Barclay
Phyllidia Barlow
David Batchelor
Tony Bevan
Sir Peter Black
Pablo Bronstein
Cecily Brown
Angela Bulloch
Varda Caivano
Sir Anthony Caro
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Gordon Cheung
Mat Collishaw
Nigel Cooke
Keith Coventry
Tony Cragg
Michael Craig-Martin
Martin Creed
Dexter Dalwood
Matthew Darbyshire
Enrico David
Shezad Dawood
Richard Deacon
Tacita Dean
Milena Dragicevic
Tracey Emin
Adam Fuss
Anya Gallaccio
Ryan Gander
Ximena Garrido-lecca
Gilbert & George
Liam Gillick
Douglas Gordon
Anthony Gormley
Paul Graham
Maggi Hambling
Anne Hardy
David Harrison
Mona Hatoum
Susan Hiller
Roger Hiorns
Howard Hodgkin
Thomas Houseago
Shirazeh Houshiary
Richard Hudson
Des Hughes
Gary Hume
Chantal Joffe
Peter Joseph
Isaac Julien
Anish Kapoor
Idris Khan
Rachael Kneebone
Jim Lambie
Michael Landy
Edward Lipski
Hew Locke
Sarah Lucas
Peter MacDonald
Goshka Macuga
Helen Martin
Gustav Metzger
Jonathan Monk
Katy Moran
Polly Morgan
Sarah Morris
David Nash
Adam Neale
Mike Nelson
Tim Noble and Sue Webster
David Noonan
Humphrey Ocean
Cornelia Parker
Simon Periton
Grayson Perry
Ged Quinn
Fiona Rae
Paula Rego
Eva Rothschild
Jenny Saville
Hiraki Sawa
Maaike Schoorel
Sean Scully
George Shaw
Raqib Shaw
Conrad Shawcross
Yinka Shonibare
Bob and Roberta Smith
Hannah Starkey
John Stezaker
Juergen Teller
Wolfgang Tillmans
Gavin Turk
Keith Tyson
Phoebe Unwin
Donald Urquhart
Mark Wallinger
Jonathan Wateridge
Gillian Wearing
Richard Wentworth
Nicole Wermers
Rachael Whiteread
Alison Wilding
Lucy Williams
Jane and Louise wilson
Bill Woodrow
Clare Woods
Richard Wright
Catherine Yass
Jonathan Yeo
Toby Ziegler