Ashley Bickerton obituary

Neo-geo artist who satirised the get-rich-quick 80s and later how people treat the natural worldIn the 1980s Ashley Bickerton conquered the New York art world, leading a pack of artists who included Jeff Koons and Haim Steinbach in the neo-geo movement, a style that critiqued rampant consumerism. His series of aluminium-and-steel wall sculptures Tormented Self-Portraits (1987-88), lacquered with corporate logos from Fruit of the Loom to Citibank, became totemic of this get-rich-quick era.Bickert