English artist George Passmore was BOTD in 1942. Born and raised in Plymouth to a working-class single mother, he studied art at Dartington College of Arts and the Oxford School of Art. In 1967, while studying at Saint Martin’s School of Art, he met Gilbert Prousch, who became his personal and professional partner. Branding themselves Gilbert & George, they began dressing identically in hand-made Savile Row suits and living together in a derelict house on Fournier Street in London’s East End. Their first public performance, The Singing Sculpture, involved wearing metallic make-up and moving robotically to the song Underneath the Arches. Their large-scale art installations, typically presented in grid formation, draw variously from newspaper headlines, street signs, depictions of sexual acts and bodily fluids, and street culture from London’s East End. In 1986, they won the Turner Prize, Britain’s leading contemporary art award, and represented Britain at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Embracing the idea of their lives as art, they usually appear in public together, identically dressed in bespoke tweed suits. Despite the sexual and subversive content of their work, the pair claim to be politically conservative, expressing support for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Britain leaving the European Union. Passmore has also been criticised for subsuming Prousch’s Italian identity into an clichéd version of mid-century Englishness. They married in 2008, and continue to live in Fournier Street (now one of London’s most expensive streets), eating dinner at a local Turkish restaurant every night.