Rachel Whiteread
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Dame Rachel Whiteread 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.
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I became aware of Louise Bourgeois in my first or second year at Brighton Art College.
Rachel Whiteread, "Kisses for Spiderwoman," The Guardian, 14 Oct. 2007: on Louise Bourgeois
I don't want to make plop art - sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.
As quoted in "Boxing clever" by Lynn Barber in The Guardian (16 October 2005)
We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.
On her home-studio in Bethnal Green, as quoted in "Still breaking the mould" by Gordon Burn in The Guardian (11 October 2005)
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