{{Short description|British contemporary artist (born 1980)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Boo Saville at ''True Colours'', Newport Street Gallery, London, 12 June 2018 '''Boo Saville''' (born 15 January 1980) is a contemporary artist.

== Early life == Saville was born in Norwich, and has a sister, also an artist Jenny Saville. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Slade School of Fine Art in 2004.<ref name="eyeball">{{Cite web|url= https://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/meet_the_artist/boo-saville-i-want-to-create-an-experience-where-you-are-hit-in-the-eyeballs-with-intensity-57192 |title= Boo Saville: I want to create an experience where you are hit in the eyeballs with intensity |work= artspace.com |date= October 5, 2022 }}</ref>

== Career == Saville has been known to do detailed drawings using Biros as her main material, her work focusing on the decomposition of the body after death. Her work includes ''Jericho'' (2009),<ref name="eyeball"/> ''Dissected Head'' (2014),<ref name="eyeball"/> ''Snakes'' (2014),<ref name="eyeball"/> ''Cry'' (2018),<ref name="eyeball"/> ''One Thing After Another (Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night)'' (2022).<ref name="eyeball"/>

She has exhibited widely in London and Europe. She received attention when her work was selected by Nicholas Forrest as Critics Choice at Saatchi Online.<ref>[http://artmarketblog.com/2007/11/04/nicks-top-ten-artists-from-the-saatchi-online-gallery/ Nick Forrest's Journal] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318220337/http://artmarketblog.com/2007/11/04/nicks-top-ten-artists-from-the-saatchi-online-gallery/ |date=March 18, 2008}}</ref> and had work exhibited in ''Black Dog- Yellow House,'' a group show curated by Rachel Howard.

Her work has been associated with New Gothic Art.<ref>Gavin, Francesca. ''Hell Bound: New Gothic Art''. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2008</ref> and she runs a blog collecting images and quotes from the internet about death www.bonesanddust.blogspot.com

Boo Saville is represented by Davidson Gallery in New York, and TJ Boulting Gallery in London.

In 2018, she was commissioned by Damien Hirst to produce artworks for his exhibition ''True Colours''.<ref name="true">{{Cite web|url= https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2018/06/06/a-saatchi-for-the-next-generation-damien-hirst-commissions-21-works-by-emerging-artists-for-new-show |author= Anny Shaw |title= A Saatchi for the next generation? Damien Hirst commissions 21 works by emerging artists for new show |work= theartnewspaper.com |date= June 6, 2018}}</ref>

==Solo exhibitions== *2008: ''Laid Bare,'' Martin Summers Fine Art, London *2009: ''Ghost/Ghost Proof,'' Other Criteria, London *2009: ''Butter Sunk,'' Trolley Gallery, London *2021-2022: ''The Smoke Detector and the Watchtower'' Davidson Gallery, New York <ref name="eyeball"/> *2022: ''Ma'' TJ Boulting gallery, London <ref name="eyeball"/>

==Group exhibitions== *2018: ''True Colours'' Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery <ref name="eyeball"/><ref name="true"/>

== References == <references/>

== External links == * [http://www.artnet.com/artist/425275634/boo-saville.html Saville featured on Art Net] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080124120601/http://www.ms-fineart.com/site/stock/stock.php?artist=1192722515 Saville on Martin Summers Fine Art] * [http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk/news/16-astonishingly-intricate-ballpoint-pen-art-creations/ 16 Astonishingly Intricate Ballpoint Pen Art Creations]

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