Shadow Art Created From Junk (Warning: not suitable for the kiddies to see)

The side photo shows White Trash (With Gulls), one of Webster and Noble's earliest trash-based pieces. Six months' worth of household waste plus a pair of dead seagulls comprise the heap of refuse.

British-born and -based artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster skillfully skim the boundaries between beauty and the darker aspects of humanity, playing with our perceptions as well as our notions of taste. Many of their most notable pieces are made from piles of garbage and everyday waste they collect from home, with light projected against them to create a shadow image entirely different to that seen when looking directly at the deliberately disguised pile.

The side photo shows White Trash (With Gulls), one of Webster and Noble's earliest trash-based pieces. Six months' worth of household waste plus a pair of dead seagulls comprise the heap of refuse.

Some very vulgar images below shows the artist are not afraid to gain the shock factor, having been known as rebel's in the art scene since the early 80's in London.

   Man peeing in daylight     

Yet the idea of reusing materials to create art gets one of its most visceral treatments in this last piece. Casting the by now familiar shadows of the artists' profiled heads - severed and impaled on spikes in this case - the sculptures are composed of various mummified animals. A nod, perhaps, to aspects of popular culture like vulgar living history, it's another work by this irreverent pair that might mean you now look at all kinds of trash and waste in a rather different light.