W.K. Lyhne studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London. She worked for a period for Foster + Partners, working various projects including Foster Headquarters in Battersea, Sackler Gallery extension at the Royal Academy of Arts and the planning and redevelopment of Kings Cross. In 2012, Lyhne began to work with the celebrated restauranteur Mark Hix on a series in paintings of The Flayed Ox, one of which is now in his Hixter Liverpool Street Restaurant. Hix art collection is displayed in his several restaurants and are most famously by British artists Damian Hirst, Tracey Emin, Fiona Rae and Rankin. In 2014, Hix hosted a show for Lyhne in Shoreditch, London. The show caused controversy and repeated police presence after complaints from the public about nudity and objectification of the female form.
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