HELEN CHADWICK

 Helen Chadwick is recognised as one of the leading exponents of the controversial late 20th century British art scene and was mentor and lecturer to
Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.  A rare and highly regarded montage from her ‘Viral Landscape’ series (five large scale photographic montages,
4' high and 10' long, displayed as a panoramic frieze). In each montage the artist's photograph of a rocky and savage coastal landscape is partially overlaid and merged with enlarged images of cells from her own body. There is a strange irony in the choice of title in this work which brought her to such public prominence
as she would subsequently die prematurely through a viral infection.