This DIY exhibition, Freeze, coordinated by Damien Hirst, catapulted the talents of a group of twentysomethings into the public eye. They would go on to be Turner Prize nominees and winners. Gary Hume, Angela Bulloch, Anya Gallaccio, Ian Davenport and Sarah Lucas, and with others — Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing, Steve McQueen, Rachel Whiteread, Chris Ofili — the Young British Artists, or YBAs, as they were called by their Goldsmiths tutor, Michael Craig-Martin, helped shape the transformation of London through the 1990s.
