Jenny Saville: A Body of Flesh and Questions Jenny Saville, born in Cambridge in 1970, is a British painter whose work has irrevocably shifted the conversation around representation in contemporary art. Initially emerging as one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) alongside figures like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, Saville quickly distinguished herself through a radically different approach – eschewing conceptualism for an intensely visceral engagement with the female form. Her canvases are dominated by monumental depictions of women’s bodies, rendered in rich, saturated colors and often im…