Summary
Gillian Wearing's work often involves collaboration with members of the public. In 1997 she became interested in working with street drinkers: 'I was interested in capturing the elements of psychological behaviour of the uninhibited… Alcohol is an obvious tool in freeing inhibition. It takes away a lot of rational thought leaving us much more physical and emotional. I was drawn to the idea of emotional swings with a cyclical pattern to them.' (Wearing 2000, unpaginated)
Wearing introduced herself to a group of drinkers whom she saw regularly near her home in South London. She explained that she was an artist and, after spending a period of time building up a relationship of trust, she began to photograph them. Wearing soon began to focus on one young woman called Lindsey with whom she established a close bond… (read more)
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