Jenny Saville
1970
British painter (born 1970)
Jennifer Anne Saville is a contemporary English painter and an original member of the Young British Artists. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England, and she is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women. She has been credited with originating a new and challenging method of painting the female nude and reinventing figure painting for contemporary art. Some paintings are of small dimensions, while other are of much larger scale.