Anya Gallaccio
Anya Gallaccio (born 1963) is a British artist, who often works with organic matter.
Early life
Born in Paisley, Scotland to TV producer George Gallaccio and actress Maureen Morris.She grew up in south west London, England and studied at Kingston Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College. In 1988—the year she graduated from Goldsmiths—she exhibited in the Damien Hirst-curated Freeze exhibition, and in 1990 the Henry Bond and Sarah Lucas organised East Country Yard shows, which brought together many of the Young British Artists. Gallaccio is a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Art practice
Much of her work uses organic materials, with fruit, vegetables and flowers all featuring in her work. Sometimes these materials undergo a change during the course their being exhibited. In Red on Green (1992), ten thousand rose heads placed on a bed of their stalks gradually withered as the exhibition went on. For Intensities and Surfaces (1996) Gallaccio left a thirty two ton block of ice with a salt core in the disused pump station at Wapping and allowed it to melt.
Podcasts:
English:
by: Helheimin the black deeps of the ocean
under the perillous sea
the ocean encompassing all the land
there no man dares to sail
come breathren of jormundgand
join in the final battle
come in the name of your father
loke awaits you in the war
the waves are rising as mountains
they will murder each king and each trell
where they drown in the sea
that is flowing over the land
the twilight of the gods has conquered the earth
evil is saging in the flood of jormundgands gush of waves
and sounds like the sough of a hundred winds
now, no green can be seen
everything lies in a sea of ashes
and all that once was beautiful
is now in ruins
the earth is an open wound
which slowly fades
no more years of life
everything is black
slain by thors hammer
but he himself is killed
jormundgand, the lord of the deep
the black flood of evil
dead is the lord of the sea
dead is the dark flood of evil
dead is lokes son the serpent that surrounds midgard
dead is the serpent that never was released before the
final battle
dead is jormundgand he who enters the embracement of
darkness