The Girls are emerging British artist duo Andrea Blood (b. 1975, UK) and Zoë Sinclair (b. 1976, UK), whose collaboration began in 1996 at Central Saint Martins. After a seven year hiatus, The Girls began making new work in 2006. The Girls' practice focuses on creating private staged tableaux and recording them as self-portrait photography or video, and performance. Themes explored include childhood, gender, feminism, women’s relationship with food, Englishness, obsession and eroticism.

In collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery, The Girls were artists-in-residence at Selfridges' Ultralounge, London, in 2010. The Girls have exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery, The ICA, The National Portrait Gallery, curator Julia Royse's POSTED Projects, PayneShurvell, the Aubin Gallery, Beverley Knowles Fine Art, Art Car Boot Fair (Vauxhall Art Car commission, POSTED & The Girls), the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art and UNO+UNO in Milan. ‘The Girls Studio’ at Tate Britain was a special commission as part of Loud Tate 2010, ‘SUPERminitinyBIG’, in response to the Tate’s ‘Rude Britannia’ exhibition.


THE PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY 'Imagine Cecil Beaton's theatrical excess combined with the inspired imagination and DIY aesthetic of the doyenne of British colour photography of the 1930's, Madame Yevonde, and you have the wonderful rich narrative world of The Girls.' Brett Rogers, Director

LONDON EVENING STANDARD 'Sexy, irreverent post-feminism. Think Angela Carter crossed with Cindy Sherman'

TIME OUT LONDON 'Seriously Weird'

AMELIA'S MAGAZINE 'Colourful and playful with a rumbling of darkness ensures childhood naivety is undercut by a dramatic and slightly haunted adult perspective'

LOVE IS THE LAW MAGAZINE 'Imagine a quintessentially English answer to Cindy Sherman, but double, and with something of the wit and chemistry of French and Saunders distilled by a camera'

SELFRIDGES 'The Girls are re-inventing photographic story-telling in the most fun and irreverent way.' Linda Hewson, Head of Creative

LE COOL MAGAZINE 'The Girls dress as nurses or baroque courtesans, they pose in big photos staged like Jeff Wall pieces, but sillier. Their Photostory about the Cinderella slipper is a laugh. Life-size straw dolls in bed explore female relationships. Get into their mental bed and indulge in a strange, funny, guilty visual feast'

LONDONIST '..sometimes attractive, sometimes disturbing and sometimes humorous. Some of the photographs are good enough to eat, but they sufficiently highlight some of the less palatable issues about the place of women in visual culture'

This site includes The Girls portraits of others, artists scrapbooks - which include behind the scenes photographs, and a biography of artists Zoe Sinclair and Andrea Blood. The Girls self-portraits, include The Embodied Soul Passes Through Girlhood to Death, The Garden Party, Self-Portrait as Barbara Cartland, Special, Self-Portrait as Princes William and Harry, Self-Portrait as Jon Benet Ramsey, God's Waiting Room, Friday (Mermaid), Hung Up On You, Dungeness and Self Portrait as 2 Star!

Website copyright © 2007-2011 The Girls, Andrea Blood and Zoë Sinclair. All rights reserved by the artists. TheGirls.co.uk