Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread · WikiArt
- Medium
- Sculpture
- Based in
- London, United Kingdom
Rachel Whiteread is a British sculptor born in London in 1963. She studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic and sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. Full biography
Artist interviewsRachel Whiteread: Giving invisible space a presence
Biography
Rachel Whiteread is a British sculptor born in London in 1963. She studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic and sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Her casts give physical form to the spaces inside and around everyday objects and buildings. Working with materials including plaster, resin and concrete, she draws attention to absence, memory and traces of habitation. Her public projects include House, the Holocaust Memorial in Vienna and Monument in Trafalgar Square.
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