Rachel Whiteread (1963– ) is a sculptor best-known for her
work House which won the Turner Prize in 1993. Born in
Ilford in Essex, her mother was an artist and her father a
geography teacher. She studied painting initially at Brighton
Polytechnic and then a Master’s degree in sculpture at Slade
School of Art, London (1985-87), where Alison Wilding and
Phyllida Barlow were tutors. Whiteread’s work is primarily
concerned with the negative space around objects, which
she says carries the “residue of years and years of use”.
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Rachel Whiteread (1963– ) is a sculptor best-known for her
work House which won the Turner Prize in 1993. Born in
Ilford in Essex, her mother was an artist and her father a
geography teacher. She studied painting initially at Brighton
Polytechnic and then a Master’s degree in sculpture at Slade
School of Art, London (1985-87), where Alison Wilding and
Phyllida Barlow were tutors. Whiteread’s work is primarily
concerned with the negative space around objects, which
she says carries the “residue of years and years of use”.
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