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Anya Gallaccio

1963

WA-00003567

Mixed MediaContemporary

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None documented

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80%

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ4778200

Field Verification (3 fields)

2 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

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Blum-Poehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/anya-gallaccio
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Lehmann-Maupin
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred60%

About

Why this artist matters now

Anya Gallaccio creates site-specific minimalist installations that engage directly with their architectural and natural surroundings. Working primarily with organic materials, her practice emphasizes ephemerality and material transformation, treating decomposition and decay as active sculptural processes. Based in Paisley, Scotland, Gallaccio's installations dissolve the boundary between the gallery space and its immediate context, making temporality and environmental change central to the work's meaning.

Source: Blum Poe · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Movement

Contemporary

Medium

Mixed Media

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Victoria and Albert Museum Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (6)

White Ice

2003 · Print

Victoria and Albert Museum

Black Ice

2003 · Print

Victoria and Albert Museum

White Ice

2002 · Screenprint on acrylic

image: 615 x 855 mm support: 615 x 855 mm frame: 630 x 867 x 40 mm

Tate

Spider’s Leg at 400 x

2000 · Photograph, silver gelatin print on paper

image: 246 x 202 mm

Tate

Broken English August ‘91

1997 · Screenprint on paper

image: 680 x 885 mm

Tate

preserve ‘beauty’

1991 · 2000 gerberas, glass, metal and rubber

displayed: 2600 x 5350 x 25 mm

Tate

Artwork sources (2)

6 published of 6 catalogued · 6 with image

Tate
4 published4 img
Victoria & Albert
2 published2 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 4)

4 entries · 1 sources

White Ice
2002 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Spider’s Leg at 400 x
2000 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Broken English August ‘91
1997 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
preserve ‘beauty’
1991 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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Movements1

Contemporary

Collections2

Victoria and Albert Museum Tate

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Victoria and Albert Museum

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Tate

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