Jenny Saville’s human landscapes

Jenny Saville’s human landscapes

Such was the noise generated by a cluster of exhibits at Sensation – the 1997 show at the Royal Academy that announced the Young British Artists to a fascinated-appalled public – that it is easy to forget that there were more than 40 artists on display. Hirst, Emin, the Chapman brothers, Marc Quinn’s self-portrait head made from his own blood, Chris Ofili’s elephant-dung Virgin and Marcus Harvey’s portrait of Myra Hindley simply drowned out many…