Artwork by Boo Saville

Artist Boo Saville isn’t scared of things that go bump in the night. In fact, you could presume an avid fascination beyond moribund. She lingers over the physical embodiment of death, deliberating upon the remaining relic once breath, soul, imagination and bowels have stirred their last. Despite a righteous artistic background — a successful artist for an older sister and years spent diligently absorbing advice from tutors at London’s Slade School of Fine Art — what Saville remains best at is copying. “At art school you are told copying is cheating.” But she insists that it’s neither death nor copying from photographs that she’s fascinated by. “It is the iconography of death,” she says, “the dual quality of violence and redemption a corpse presents. Photographs have already begun that process of distortion, of creating an icon, a lie.”