The Girls Press Photographs' photostream

The Girls are re-emerging British artists Andrea Blood (1975, UK) and Zoë Sinclair (1976, UK), whose collaboration began in 1996 at Central Saint Martins. After a seven year hiatus, The Girls began making new work in 2006. The Girls' practice focuses on creating private staged tableaux and recording them as self-portrait photography or video; as well as performance art. Themes explored include Englishness, childhood, gender, women’s relationship with food, obsession and eroticism.

From 1 - 29 April 2010 The Girls will be artists-in-residence in Selfridges' Ultralounge (lower ground floor), Oxford Street, London; in a new collaboration with The Photographers Gallery.

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

EVENING STANDARD 'Sexy, irreverent post-feminism. Think Angela Carter crossed with Cindy Sherman.'

AMELIA'S MAGAZINE 'Colourful and playful with a rumbling of darkness ensures childhood naivety is undercut by a dramatic and slightly haunted adult perspective.'

LOVE IS THE LAW MAGAZINE 'Imagine a quintessentially English answer to Cindy Sherman, but double, and with something of the wit and chemistry of French and Saunders distilled by a camera.'

LONDON LE COOL 'The Girls dress as nurses or baroque courtesans, they pose in big photos staged like Jeff Wall pieces, but sillier. Their Photostory about the Cinderella slipper is a laugh. Life-size straw dolls in bed explore female relationships. Get into their mental bed and indulge in a strange, funny, guilty visual feast.'

LONDONIST '..sometimes attractive, sometimes disturbing and sometimes humorous. Some of the photographs are good enough to eat, but they sufficiently highlight some of the less palatable issues about the place of women in visual culture.'