About The Girls

BIOGRAPHY | The Girls, Andrea Blood and Zoe Sinclair

The Girls are British artists Andrea Blood and Zoe Sinclair, whose award-winning collaboration began in 1996

The Girls are graduates of the legendary BA (Hons) Graphic Design 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 sixteen at art class at Parkstone Grammar School in Dorset. While on an art foundation course at The Arts University College at Bournemouth, both were cherry-picked for Saint Martins by visiting course director Andrew Whittle and Christopher Corr.

Blood and Sinclair 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 Central Saint Martins/Dermott Golding Photographic Self-Portraiture Challenge.

Several years into their prolific collaboration, Blood and Sinclair'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 seven years.

In 2006 Blood and Sinclair began joyfully collaborating again, this time at a healthy distance, and are currently working on their first book of self portraits.

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

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