In the wonderful world of modern art, two young graduates are making a name for themselves as the new Gilbert and George. Known as ‘The Girls’, the creative duo dress up in pink nurses uniforms to attend media interviews and presentations. All their work is produced together and just months after graduating from St Martin’s School of Art they are being snapped up by fashion magazines. They are actually Zoe Sinclair and Andrea Blood, both aged 22, who studied art together at Parkstone Grammar School and The Arts Institute before doing their degrees at St Martin’s. “We are keen to work as artists to create a body of work”, explains Zoe, who recently won a £3,000 prize in this year’s Observer Hodge Award for an evocative photo-diary of American teenage girls at camp.

The Girls’ latest work is a triptych self-portrait entitled ‘The Embodied Soul Passes From Girlhood to Death’ currently on show at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. Andrea said: “We are very driven and we are passionate. We love photography and we love what we do. We never stop and we are never satisfied.”

It was while sharing a flat at college that they decided to launch their partnership. Andrea said: “We have a single portfolio and we have a whole look – we wear name badges and you cannot mistake us because we have a pink leather portfolio.” Zoe added: “It is early days and our plan is to sell our latest piece to fund our next project.”

Article reproduced courtesy of the Bournemouth Echo

Date: 10/11/98