Since meeting at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London in 1967, the two artists have lived and worked together, considering themselves one artist divided into two people.
Since the early 1970s, Gilbert & George have created art forms that tended to identify artwork and everyday life by employing their bodies as artistic materials as well. Their early works consisted of photo books, engravings or cards sent to friends and acquaintances bearing writings and traces of their existence, or performances called “Living Sculptures or Singing Sculptures,” where the two artists, their faces and hands covered with bronze or gold dust, standing on a table, sing old English songs with robot-like movements.