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Rachel Whiteread

English artist

United Kingdom · b. 1963

Arts and letters

Born in Essex, Rachel Whiteread, 54, studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic. She went on to do an MA in sculpture at the Slade. In 1993, House, her life-size cast of the interior of a terrace house, was the first work by a woman to win the Turner prize. Her major public projects include the Holocaust Memorial (1995) in Vienna, Monument (2001) in Trafalgar Square and Cabin (2016) in New York. A retrospective of her work is at Tate Britain, London, until 21 January. She has two sons with the artist Marcus Taylor.

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Question What did you want to be when you were growing up? Identity & self read 190 other answers →

First something medical, then, without any doubt, an artist.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2017 source ↗

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