Love, social conventions, customs and obsessions are some of the themes Gilbert & George deal with. The two artists have been living and working together since 1967 when they met at St Martin’s School of Art, London. Since then they have become outstanding protagonists of English art and have deeply influenced its evolution.
As Robin Dutt writes in his “Gilbert & George. Obsessions and Compulsions” : “We are speaking of two artists whose lives are an extension of their creations”. Their style has remained unaltered for thirty years: typically British separates and an apparently conservative look.

An artificial way of representing reality, their works give shape to a distinctive creative universe of which they are the outright protagonists. It is just the body that sometimes becomes a creative instrument, like in The Singing Sculpture (1970), where the two artists become living sculptures: the artists and their work jointly making up a unique, consistent reality. Which is the essence of their thought.