Rachel Whiteread
born 1963
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Rachel Whiteread, CBE (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993.
Whiteread was one of the Young British Artists who exhibited at the Royal Academy's Sensation exhibition in 1997. Among her most renowned works are House, a large concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian house; the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial in Vienna, resembling the shelves of a library with the pages turned outwards; and Untitled Monument, her resin sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.
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Rachel Whiteread Untitled (Floor)
1994–5
Film and audio
Podcast
Walks of art: Grace Dent on the YBAs and Shoreditch
The journalist journeys through East London to explore the artists who lived and worked there in the nineties
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How to Cast like Rachel Whiteread
Ever wondered how casting works? Find out how with our step-by-step
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The Space: Olympic Posters
London 2012 commissioned twelve of the UK’s leading artists to create images to celebrate The Olympic Games and The ...
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Rachel Whiteread Drawings: Curator’s Talk
In this audio recording Lizzie Carey-Thomas, curator at Tate Britain, explores the drawings that provide a rare insight into the ...
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Rachel Whiteread Drawings
Rachel Whiteread is renowned for her evocative large-scale sculptures, but drawing has always remained one of her core activities.
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Rachel Whiteread: Artist's Talk
Rachel Whiteread discusses the working processes behind the piece, and its reception, with artist and writer David Batchelor.
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Jeanette Winterson - Conversations with Magic Stones
Prize-winning author, Jeanette Winterson, talked about work by four twentieth-century sculptors and installation artists who challenge the way we see ...
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Audio Arts: Volume 17 No 1 & 2, Side A – Pipilotti Rist, Rachel Whiteread, Leontine Coelewij, Willem Oorebeek, Pet
Audio Arts: Volume 17 No 1-2, Side A – Pipilotti Rist, Rachel Whiteread, Leontine Coelewij, Willem Oorebeek, Peter Weibel
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Audio Arts: Volume 12 No 2 & 3, Side D – Rachel Whiteread, Max Neuhaus, Guillaume Bijl and Jan Hoet
This double issue of Audio Arts was recorded at Documenta 9, in Kassel, Germany, in June 1992. The tapes comprise ...
Features
Tate Etc
Rachel Whiteread's The Gran Boathouse: An Interior Exterior on Norway's Lakeshore
To coincide with her exhibition at Tate Britain, Tate Etc. visited one of Rachel Whiteread's lesser known public sculptures in ...
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Five Things to Know: Rachel Whiteread
Meet the Turner Prize-winning artist who changed the way we think about sculpture
Tate Etc
The detritus of the future and pleasure of the past: Ruin Lust at Tate Britain
The exhibition Ruin Lust at Tate Britain explores artists’ and subsequently photographers’ fascination with the ruin, via works from JMW ...
Blog
Tate Debate: What is the impact of art on architecture?
Next Monday sees the question ‘if you build it, will they come?’ up for discussion at Tate Modern, this week ...
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Tate Etc. issue 20: Autumn 2010
Tate Etc. Issue 20 Autumn 2010 online edition of Tate's magazine
Tate Etc
‘The Process of Drawing is like Writing a Diary: It's a Nice Way of Thinking About Time Passing’: Rachel Whiteread
To coincide with Tate Britain’s exhibition of the artist’s drawings, as well as the objects from her personal collection that ...
Tate Etc
A celestial journey: Clouds
Richard Hamblyn looks at the use of sky to load meaning in painting since the Renaissance, including the work of ...
Project
Rachel Whiteread installation film of Untitled (Rooms) (2001) and Untitled (Stairs) (2001): Special imaging treatments
A time-lapse film to document the installation of Rachael Whiteread’s Untitled (Rooms) 2001 and Untitled (Stairs) 2001
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