Gilbert and George first started working together in 1967 when they met at St Martin's School of Art in London. In 1970 they won critical acclaim with The Singing Sculpture. This "sculpture" involved them standing on a table and moving to an old recording of Underneath the Arches. Their first connection between the performance of the body and their own lives, it also demonstrated their assertion that art can exist anywhere.
Today Gilbert & George are established figures on the international art scene, blurring the boundaries between art and life. Much of their work uses a rectangular or square format, consisting of panels in a grid formation. Within the grid they experiment with thoughts and feelings they consider to have universal ramifications, facing taboo subjects, questioning social conventions and trying to make them accessible to everyone.