Gillian Wearing CBE
born 1963
© Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley/ Interim Art, London
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© Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley/ Interim Art, London
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Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett stands in London's Parliament Square.
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Gillian Wearing CBE ‘I’m desperate’
1992–3
Gillian Wearing CBE ‘Everything is connected in life...’
1992–3
Gillian Wearing CBE Confess All On Video. Don’t Worry You Will Be in Disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian Version II
1994
Gillian Wearing CBE Self Portrait as My Sister Jane Wearing
2003
Gillian Wearing CBE ‘I signed on and they would not give me nothing’
1992–3
Gillian Wearing CBE ‘I have been certified as mildly insane!’
1992–3
Gillian Wearing CBE The Garden
1997
Gillian Wearing CBE ‘I like to be in the country’
1992–3
Artist as subject
Gillian Wearing CBE The Garden
1997
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