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BIOGRAPHY | The Girls, Andrea Blood and Zoe Sinclair

The Girls are British artists Andrea Blood and Zoe Sinclair, whose award-winning collaboration spans 12 years

The Girls are graduates of the legendary Graphic Design BA (Hons) at Central Saint Martins School of Art; alumni include Sandro Sodano, Platon, Jonathan Barnbrook, and collectives Tomato and Fuel.

Andrea Blood (b.1975) and Zoe Sinclair (b.1976) first met in 1992 aged 16 at art class at Poole's Parkstone Grammar School. While on an art foundation course at Bournemouth's Arts Institute (AIB), both were cherry-picked for Saint Martins by visiting course director Andrew Whittle and Christopher Corr.

Andrea and Zoe began collaborating in 1996 during their first year at Central Saint Martins, also sharing a Brixton flat, and were soon nicknamed 'The Girls' by the inspiring CSM Photography Department*, then headed by John Ingledew. The Girls great and enduring passion for self-portraiture was triggered that same year when they won the annual CSM/Dermott Golding Photographic Self-Portraiture Challenge.

Several years into their prolific collaboration, Andrea and Zoe's intense relationship saw them finishing each others sentences, Midwich Cuckoo-style; wearing a selection of matching pink-based outfits; and winning a string of awards for their surreal, very English work. But eventually claustrophobia set in and the pair went their separate ways for 7 years.

In 2006 Andrea and Zoe began joyfully collaborating again, this time at a healthy distance, and are currently working on their first book of self portraits. The Girls had their first solo gallery show at Beverley Knowles Fine Art, Notting Hill, London, in autumn 2008.

The Girls have exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, The Photographers' Gallery, the ICA, and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.

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*John Ingledew, Gary Wallis, Tim Marshall, Steve Harries and Dave Henley