'I remember turning up to my religious studies class wearing an ‘Anarchy in the U.K.’ pin. My teacher came up to me and asked, ‘Do you know what anarchy means?’ Of course I didn’t.”
. A paint-splattered pair of Adidas Originals. Sue Webster has spent a lifetime amassing cultural ephemera, first as a teenager growing up in Leicester, England, and then, along with her partner and ex-husband Tim Noble, as a leading artist of the post-YBA generation. This visual autobiography is spectacularly displayed in Webster’s London studio, spread across an imposing wall that she has labeled “The Crime Scene.
, a catalogue of her obsessions and inspirations. Here, the artist recounts the stories behind some of her Siouxsies.“I used to do these when we were very drunk at restaurants. I’d draw all over the table when I was trying to explain something to somebody. I would say, ‘I’m connected to Hitler and I can prove that in three degrees of separation.’ Then I started doing them to try to connect myself to Siouxsie and the Banshees.
albums had led me—how they had taken me on a journey to create some of the masterpieces that I’ve created as an artist.”“I made this jacket. I put the studs on the back and painted that image of Siouxsie using leather dye. It was my pride and joy, my armor plating that I put on when I went to the gigs. Even at that age, I would make my own clothes. It’s the thing that defines you, because you aren’t afraid to step out of your front door wearing something that you’ve made.
used to have, as an incentive to buy the magazine, a badge hooked to the front of it. They were famous for having free badges on the cover. But as punk, or the music scene, got more refined, badges got smaller and they became the one-inch badge—the pin badge. We used to put them on our school uniforms. I remember turning up to my religious studies class wearing an ‘Anarchy in the U.K.’ pin. I thought I was so cool.
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