Alex Hyde's 'Exhibition' tells the YBA story from the margins, not the top

The Guardian reviewed Alex Hyde's second novel 'Exhibition' on 3 August 2026. A Künstlerroman — a novel of artistic formation — it follows Rabble Stone, a working-class photography student in 1990s London. Hyde filters the Young British Artists era through a character at the scene's edge, not the artists who defined it. The book is addressed to an unnamed, deceased artist.