Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) was… One of the first women artists nominated for the Turner Prize, Chadwick was interested in the abject and challenged binary ideas around gender, beauty and ‘natural’ forms. She utilised a variety of mediums – sculpture, installation, photography and printmaking while using unconventional materials such as chocolate, vegetable matter and lambs tongues. Continuing the sorts of issues artists such as Carol Schneeman explore, her own work and teaching become hugely influential to the Young British Artist (YBA) generation. After her early death at the age of 42, a retrospective was held at the Barbican in 2004 and toured to Manchester, Denmark and Sweden.