Sam Taylor - Johnson was born in London in 1967 and is splitting her time between London and Los Angeles. At the age of 16, she enrolled in an art college in Hastings, later moving back to London to attend Goldsmiths College. She was originally a sculpture, but began working in photography, film and video in the early 1990s. Sam Taylor Wood has had many group and solo exhibitions including the Venice Biennale in 1997, where she won the Illy Cafe Prize for Most Promising Young Artist and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1998. Sam Taylor Johnson is regarded as one of the most important female contemporary artists and her work combines elements of the still life and moving image.
Sam Taylor Johnson's 'Still Life' 2001 was one of the classical still life but described as an 'Updated in this exquisite, simple meditation on morality and beauty. This addition of a supermarket peach and a Bic pen prompts questions about modern attempts at immortality.
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