{"title":"Nicola Tyson","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicola Tyson (born 1960, London) is a British artist whose paintings and drawings centre on the figure — specifically on a body that is distorted, elongated, compressed and reconfigured in ways that resist both idealism and caricature. Working primarily in oil on canvas and ink on paper, Tyson has developed a visual language in which anatomy is treated as a set of propositions rather than a set of facts: limbs extend beyond their natural range, torsos multiply or collapse, faces dissolve into gesture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTyson’s work engages with questions of gender, desire and representation — not through illustration or polemic but through the formal decisions of painting itself. The figures she produces are neither male nor female in any stable sense; they occupy a space of bodily possibility that is simultaneously comic, unsettling and strangely tender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased in New York, Tyson has exhibited with Sadie Coles HQ in London and Petzel Gallery in New York. Publications produced in connection with her practice — catalogues, artist books, and printed matter — extend the concerns of the paintings into the format of the page.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"package-holiday-new-british-art-ophiuchus-collection-hydra-1997","title":"PACKAGE HOLIDAY: New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection. Hydra Workshop, 1997","description":"\u003cp\u003eHydra, Greece: The Hydra Workshop, 1997. Exhibition catalogue published for \u003cem\u003ePackage Holiday: New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection\u003c\/em\u003e, 26 July–30 September 1997, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra. Organised by Pauline Karpidas and Sadie Coles. Landscape softcover, staple-bound. Colour photographs and illustrations throughout. 21 × 15 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Pronounced vertical handling crease through the wrappers, with rubbing, scattered surface marks, small abrasions and wear to the edges and corners. Light handling internally; complete and firmly bound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1997 Pauline Karpidas and Sadie Coles brought fifteen London-based artists to the Hydra Workshop, a former boat-repair space on the island’s harbour. \u003cem\u003ePackage Holiday\u003c\/em\u003e was their first exhibition there together and established the model for the annual programme that followed: artists, curators and galleries temporarily relocated to Hydra, with a publication produced for each presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition assembled Don Brown, Peter Doig, Tracey Emin, Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, Paul Noble, Chris Ofili, Richard Patterson, Simon Patterson, Georgina Starr, Sam Taylor-Wood, Nicola Tyson and Gillian Wearing. Each artist was represented by a single work from the Ophiuchus Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue borrows the visual language of a holiday brochure: uninterrupted blue covers, panoramic views of Hydra, a row of packed suitcases and bright blue headings. Simon Patterson’s \u003cem\u003eThe Great Bear\u003c\/em\u003e faces Damien Hirst’s \u003cem\u003ePemoline\u003c\/em\u003e; Sam Taylor-Wood’s \u003cem\u003eFive Revolutionary Seconds IX\u003c\/em\u003e extends across the gutter; works by Richard Patterson and Georgina Starr appear as another unlikely pair. A private collection, a London gallery network and a generation of British artists are condensed into one small travel document.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover wear now interrupts the continuous blue surface, leaving the catalogue with visible evidence of the movement its title proposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hydra Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53986478457170,"sku":"PACKAGEHOLIDAY-HYDRA-CAT-1997","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Brown_Dan._Doig_Peter._Emin_Tracey._Show_catalogue_Package_Holiday_Hydra._1997.jpg?v=1783901135"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/nicola-tyson.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}