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Rachel Whiteread

(1963-), Artist

Sitter in 3 portraits
Trained at Brighton Polytechnic and the Slade, Whiteread is perhaps most famous for her concrete-cast House, which won her the Turner Prize in 1993. This was followed by a retrospective at Tate Liverpool in 1996-7, and representing England in the Venice Biennale in 1997. In 2001 she produced a clear resin cast of the inverted fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. Her work explores memory, loss and remembrance, and often involves making casts of everyday objects or structures. She has a significant international reputation with major works in collections in the USA and Europe, including the Holocaust Memorial in Vienna which she designed. She was awarded a CBE in 2006.

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Rachel Whiteread; Phil Brown

by Johnnie Shand Kydd
bromide fibre print, 1997
NPG x87412

Rachel Whiteread

by Gautier Deblonde
bromide fibre print, 1999
NPG x126937

'The British Council 70 Years at the Venice Biennale'

by Julian Germain
archival inkjet print, 21 October 2009
NPG x132893

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