The fifty - year - old, who rose to fame with his urns decorated with images of sex and child abuse, joins
the ranks of Academicians including Tracey Emin and Anish Kapoor.
Not exact matches
The Chinese Academy
of Sciences (CAS) confirmed this week that Yang Chen Ning, 94, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, and Andrew Yao (Yao Qizhi), 70, the A.M. Turing Award winner in 2000, were recently inducted into the academy's
ranks as domestic
academicians rather than foreign.
On the one hand there were the
rank outsiders — a portrait
of Arthur and Guinevere in green biro still lingers in the mind — on the other the
academicians, the members
of the Academy themselves, with their interminable views
of rain - sodden south London gardens and khaki - coloured studios.
Long dismissed as childish, her outwardly simple compositions have recently won a string
of high - profile accolades (the Wollaston Award, the John Moores Painting Prize, and entry into the
ranks of the Royal Academy's senior royal
academicians), and the British press can't get enough
of her.
She joined the
ranks of Zaha Hadid, Anish Kapoor, David Hockney, and many others when she was elected a Royal
Academician («among the greatest names in contemporary British art») that same year.