Jenny Saville
Birthday: Born in 1970-05-07 in Cambridge, England
Deathday: Alive
Jenny Saville is a British painter and a member of the Young British Artists movement. She is known for her large-scale paintings of nude women, often with distorted flesh and scars, inspired by pathology textbooks.
TV Credits
Vile Bodies
Character: Self
Documentary miniseries about contemporary artists who create challenging views of the human body. One of a 3-part series exploring how contemporary photography is challenging some of our deepest-held taboos about the human body. "American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin discusses his dark visions of human bodies....
Movie Credits
When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
Character: Self
As a part of a tribute night to broadcaster and television executive Alan Yentob, he interviews leading British artist Jenny Saville. One of the most successful figurative painters working today, she came to prominence as part of the YBA movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She has been reluctant to discuss her work for many years on television, until now. Alan Yentob was working with her on a film for Imagine and caught up with her in Vienna on the eve of two major 2025 exhibitions she i...