Saatchi Gallery. London. June 2005.

When still housed in the old GLC building. (Before they Saatchi and the landlords fell out.)
I got it. Who wouldn't want to do this? Basically, just go round all the art college shows and just buy the best ones.
This is the sort of thing The Prince of Wales used to do in. (Though it is hard to imagine any of the current crop doing anything as useful.)

Light Perpetual 1 - Conrad Shawcross
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/conrad_shawcross.htm
What I remember was it's noise. And it was rather frightening as if you could get caught up in it. And the shadows cast were like things in a horror-dream. It also seemed so effective for something so apparently (it was probabaly a horror-dream to make) simple.

Naomi V Jelish by Jamie Shovlin (basically a student purchase)
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/jamie_shovlin.htm
I confess I didn't find it moving but I loved the concept of the project.

Richard Wilson - 20:50 (oil room)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/history/wilsonr.htm
What the blurb doesn't explain is the effect from the relfections of the surrounding room - doors etc. AND the SMELL.

Brood - Kate MccGwire (wishbones) (student)
http://www.axisweb.org/grCVFU.aspx?SELECTIONID=15357
Don't know how long this site will last. WHY ISN'T IT ON THE SAATCHI SITE?
Made from 20000 chicken wishbones. Can you beat that? Good luck?! (For the chickens.) A beautific delicate slaughterhouse.

Vermin Death Star - David Falconer (rats)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/gallery/image/0,8543,-11104640115,00.html
The memory of this still gives me the shivers. (And why is that fun?)
100s of freeze-dried rats used to make the metal castings for the sculpture. Was it really cast-metal? Even the process of making it makes your stomach turn. Or? Maybe there are whole reserves of frozen rats out there? What a great name for an sf book. Or pulp film. Can't stand to look at it but it is certainly art.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/