The Girls are re-emerging British artists Andrea Blood (1975, UK) and Zoe Sinclair (1976, UK). Their award-winning collaboration began in 1996 while both were students at Central Saint Martins School of Art, after first meeting at school aged sixteen. After a seven year hiatus, The Girls reformed in 2006. The Girls work consists of staged portrait photography, including self-portraiture, and performance art.

The Girls have previously exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery, The ICA, The National Portrait Gallery and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA). The Girls solo show at Beverley Knowles Fine Art, Notting Hill, London is now closed.

EVENING STANDARD "I loved self-portraits by The Girls - Andrea Blood and Zoe Sinclair - at Beverley Knowles Fine Art. Sexy, irreverent post-feminism. Think Angela Carter crossed with Cindy Sherman." Liz Hoggard

"The Girls show in the bubblegum pink Beverley Knowles gallery includes 12 years worth of staged portrait photography, self portraiture and performance pieces. Works play with the themes of childhood, performance, Englishness, eroticism and gender. Colourful and playful with a rumbling of darkness ensures childhood naivity is undercut by a dramatic and slightly haunted adult perspective. An exhibition which ensures you’ll leave slightly flustered - One not to miss." AMELIA'S MAGAZINE


"Food guilt...it’s a girl thing! Nosh figures big with Andrea Blood and Zoe Sinclair, two ex-St Martins girls who launched this lavish, colourful show with a vicar blessing pastries on a naked woman. Those have since been scoffed but there’s a fantastic selection of works left, often sensual and twisty, like the mermaid in 'Friday' gorging on fish'n'chips. Blood and Sinclair once gave art therapy in mental asylums, and in self-portraits they become Myra Hindley & Barbara Cartland. They 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." LONDON LE COOL MAGAZINE

This site includes The Girls portraits of others, artists scrapbooks - which include behind the scenes photographs, a biography of artists Zoe Sinclair and Andrea Blood, and visitor comments.

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!

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