They sat around on sofas drinking smoking talking and dancing a bit looking a lot more glamorous than the punters

They sat around on sofas, drinking, smoking, talking and dancing a bit, looking a lot more glamorous than the punters in the stalls. And she has permeated the consciousness of mainstream pop: Taylor-Wood made the video that was projected either side of the stage as the Pet Shop Boys played the Savoy Theatre in June. Also last year she did a film called The Last Castrato with Kylie Minogue, shown at the ICA in “Fool’s Rain”.What she says: “My own work comes from pulling out bits of people’s personalities, mostly people who are very close to me. She also transposed Tosca to a council flat with her friends miming the arias.

Last year she showed a five-screen work called Pent Up at the Chisenhale. And Slut attracted attention: it’s a self-portrait in which the artist’s neck is ringed with love-bites.And this year? She won a young artist’s award at the Venice Biennale. Her Five Revolutionary Seconds, a series of photos taken by a rotating camera through 360 degrees that captured actors engaged in activities ranging from the banal to the pornographic, has been shown in Barcelona. She’s had a commission from the Telegraph to take a panorama of London. The Chapmans are producing a limited edition of signed Stephen Hawking phonecards as their contribution to the “Sensation” merchandise.Next move: they’re having a show at the Victoria Miro Gallery in September, and an exhibition in New York. Galleries should be means-tested.” And: “The thing that makes life worth living is surplus wealth.”What else does Jake say: “I want to rub salt in your inferiority complex, smash your ego in the face, gouge your eyes from their sockets and piss in the holes”.What the Chapmans’ work costs: pounds 16,000 to pounds 40,000.And where can you buy it? The Victoria Miro Gallery Also, from September, from the Royal Academy’s show.

In 1995, she was in the “British Art Show” with Brontosaurus, a video of a naked man dancing alone in his living-room; he’d obviously done the dancing to some jungle techno track, but Taylor-Wood played him back in slow motion, to orchestral music, so that his manic jerks took on a kind of melancholy. What are they about? Landy’s interested in the relationship between art and the circulation of commodities, so his installations use objects found in markets, stalls, anywhere. He hailed Patterson as “the brightest newcomer of 1996″, for work that was “zany and insolent”. A new painting, Culture Station With Fur Hat, will be unveiled in “Sensation”.Any relation to Simon Patterson? Yes, they’re brothers, but unlike the Chapmans they do their own thing. Richard is the elder, but since “Freeze” he has taken longer to come to notice.What next? Another solo show at Anthony d’Offay opens on 12 September, and his work will be in “False Impressions” at the British School in Rome.MICHAEL LANDYBorn: 1963.Educated: Goldsmiths’, graduated in 1988.Dealer: Karsten Schubert.What does he do? Installations. Richard Cork, in the Times, liked Patterson’s “ability to invest banal, even kitsch material, with a surprising power”.What else has he painted? Himself. He contributed a self-portrait to d’Offay’s “Portrait of the Artist” exhibition last year, which Tim Hilton found “splendidly amusing”.