A-Z: Lisa Milroy

Lisa Milroy RA (born 19 January 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia)^[1] is an Anglo-Canadian artist known for her still life paintings of everyday objects placed in lines or patterns. She has also produced a number of different series including landscapes, buildings, portraits and geishas in incongruous settings.^[1]
In 1977, aged 18, she went to Paris to study at the Paris-Sorbonne University.^[2] In 1978 she moved to London to study at Saint Martin's School of Art. However, in early 1979, she transferred to Goldsmiths College, then transferring again, later in the year, to the University of London, staying there until 1982.^[2] Her first solo exhibition was in 1984 which was mostly based on still life. In 1989 she won the John Moores Painting Prize.^[3] Milroy is currently Head of Graduate Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, London.^[4] She gained election to membership of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2005 and was appointed a Trustee of the Tate Gallery in 2013.<sup>[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Milroy</sup>

A-Z: Kiki Smith

  Kiki Smith is a German American artist. Her work includes themes of birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s didn’t work with the cultural opinion on bodily functions. Early on in her career, her pieces looked at subjects such as AIDS, gender and race, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith was an active member of the artists' group Colab in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She works in media including sculpture, printmaking, drawing and jewellery. She has developed a unique lineage of mythological imagery over her 40 years as an artist.

A-Z: Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer is well known for her large-scale displays in public places such as billboards and projections on buildings and other structures. She mainly use text to show ideas in public places. Originally utilizing street posters, LED signs became her most visible medium, though her diverse practice incorporates a wide array of media including bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches and footstools, stickers, T-shirts, paintings, photographs, sound, video, light projection, the Internet, and a Le Mans race car.v

A-Z: Ida Applebroog

Ida Applebroog is a American painter who lives in new York. Applebroog is known for a variety of things including painting, sculpture, books and films that explore themes such as gender, sex, violence and politics. She has received many honours including the MacArthur Fellowship ‘’genius grant’’. Although I find her work to be very dark and somewhat disturbing, I think it is relevant because of how dark and disturbing the topics she works which are. 

A-Z: Fiona Banner

Fiona Banner is an English artist that gained a lot of attention after being short listed for the turner prize in 2002. Her work includes sculpture, drawing and installation, although text is the main ingredient of her work. Banner uses text to get over a message as directly as possible about the topic. I attended the Yorkshire Sculpture park in September of 2014 and saw  her work there, I was immediately impressed by the sheer size of the Chinook piece that was rotating from the ceiling of the large exhibition shape. The exhibition gave and instant idea of large scape some of her work could be.

A-Z: Coco channel

^{Gabrielle Chanel was a French fashion designer who founded the world famous Chanel brand. Chanel has been credited for releasing women from the fashion usual’s of the time, such as corsets, and giving fashion a more casual and sporty style. Chanel’s style and visions were so popular that they have been made into various ranges of handbags, accessory and fragrances, which the Chanel No. 5 fragrance becoming the most iconic. She has become that iconic that she is the only fashion designer to be listed on Time magazine's top 100 influential people of the 20th century.} 

^{I admire Chanel because of how she managed to over write the traditional style of corsets and women only wearing what was acceptable, and give women a new sense of freedom to express themselves in their fashion, which at the time was maybe the only was women were able to express themselves due to what was socially acceptable.}