After a Century of British Art Was Destroyed, This Artist Is Recreating Her Lost Works
Daisy Bernard, MutualArt
January 2019
In 2004, half a century of British art was destroyed in a fire at London’s Momart storage warehouse. Among the ashes were works by Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and Veronica Ryan — an artist now creating an exhibition in dialogue with her burned sculptures. “Losing a whole body of work was a difficult process,” she says, comparing the effect to “cutting off a limb” in that it “stymied the tangents and tentacles which came out of those ideas.” […]