Talk:Rachel Whiteread

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[edit] Notes to accompany/aid further editing of the article

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This began as a place for me to keep notes as I added to the main article. It's now grown into a large (but certainly not complete) chronology of works.

Below there's a number of entries giving work Title, (year), a mixture of details (media, size), in some cases descriptions, and in most cases an external link to a picture of the work. In a few cases the link is merely to text referring to the work (by way of proving its existence).

[edit] Works

First exhibition: "the casts of the wardrobe, the table, the hot-water bottle, the space under the bed that she showed in her first 1988 exhibition" [1].

[edit] Dated

  • Closet (1988)
    • The cast of the inside of a wardrobe, the cast then covered in black felt [2].


  • Untitled (Freestanding Bed) (1991)
    • Dental plaster & polystyrene, [3]
  • Untitled (?Alternate name?) (1991) **image
  • Untitled (Double Amber Bed) (1991)
    • rubber and high density foam
    • 47 x 54 x 41 in.[4]
  • Untitled (Air Bed II) (1992)
    • Polyurethane rubber. object: 1220 x 1970 x 230 mm [5]
    • Screenprint and mezzotint on paper image: 560 x 790 mm on paper, print [6]
  • Untitled (Floor/Ceiling) (1993)
    • Polyunethane rubber displayed: 120 x 1200 x 2930mm[7]
  • Untitled (Table) (1993)
    • Medium resin
    • Size 27.6 x 48.1 x 22.2 in. / 70.2 x 122.3 x 56.5 cm.
    • [8]
  • Untitled (Convex) (1993)
    • rubber and high-density foam
    • 39 1/2 x 77 x 13 in.
    • image artnet
  • Untitled (Wardrobe) (1994)
    • "an elegant minimalist piece in plaster and green glass plates, is a similarly oblique study of the body; it seems to indicate a figure who used the wardrobe at some distant point in time." article
  • Untitled (Floor) (1994)
    • Polyester resin unconfirmed: 204 x 2745 x 3930 mm [9]
  • Orange Bath (1996)
    • "made in rubber and polystyrene"[10].
    • She considers this "her firstsculpture"[11].
  • Yellow Bath (1996)
    • Rubber and polystyrene [12]
  • Black Bath (1996)
    • "a large resin casing of a bathtub, also implies the figure. It appears serene and imposing like a black granite sarcophagus from ancient Egypt."
    • article
  • Demolished (1996)
    • Photographic prints of a tower block being demolished.
    • Medium Portfolio of 12 duo-tone screenprints. Size 48.90 x 74.40 cm (paper size).
  • Untitled (Twenty-Four Switches) (1998)
    • Aluminium. object: 263 x 203 x 60 mm [13].
  • Untitled (Nine Tables) (1998)
    • Casts of the undersides of tables.
    • Concrete and polystyrene. displayed: 681 x 3750 x 5190 mm [14].
  • Untitled (Pair) (1999)
    • Cast from a mortuary slab.
    • Medium: Bronze with white cellulose paint. Two parts, each: 90.00 x 77.00 x 204.00 cm [15] [16]
  • Untitled (Library) (1999)
    • Cast of bookshelves.
    • Dental plaster, polystyrene, fiberboard and steel.
    • 112 1/2 x 210 5/8 x 96 in. [17]
  • Untitled (Apartment) (2001)
    • Mixed media, 9 feet 6 inches x 36 feet 11 5/8 inches x 20 feet 5 5/8 inches. Deutsche Guggenheim.[18]
  • Untitled (Rooms)(2001)
    • Polymer reinforced plaster, fibreglass matting, wood and metal, object: 2820 x 7260 x 13430 mm [19]
  • Untitled (Stairs) (2001)
    • cast of the stairs within Whiteread's converted synagogue home.
    • mixed media[20][21]
  • Untitled (Basement) (2001)
    • Another cast of stairs. [22]
  • Untitled (Colours)(2002)
    • Cast of books and shelves, colour of covers has bled into plaster.
    • MediumPlaster, polystyrene and steel, 113.00 x 90.00 x 26.00 cm [23]
  • Untitled (History) (2002)
    • Cast around bookcases comprised of four units.
    • Medium: plaster, polystyrene & steel [24]

[edit] Undated (NB: not that they are formally undated, I just haven't found the date)

  • Yellow Leaf the cast of a table similar to the Formica-topped extendible one that her grandmother had kept in her kitchen. Shallow Breath was the cast of the underside of the bed on which, according to her mother, she was born. [25]
  • she would go on to explore an interest in the macabre, with urine-coloured castings of mortuary slabs and hair-clogged sinks. [same source]
  • Untitled (Room 101) (year?)
    • " cast of the office in which George Orwell worked at the BBC, said to have inspired the terrifying Room 101 in 1984." [26].
  • Untitled (Domestic)
    • "made by casting the gallery's fire escape" [27].

Man, is this artist a one-trick pony or what?194.176.105.40 09:13, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biographical

  • Son was born after IVF treatment, they are hoping for another as of October 2005. [28].
  • I'm sure I read in two separate articles that both mother AND father died in separate circumstances, but both after routine visits to doctor and both two years ago, however neither article mentioned the two deaths in the same breath, so I suspect I or the source journalist got the father wrong.
    • Pat Whiteread's death and that of Rachel's father is mentioned here (and provides enough for the beginnings of an article on Pat: [29].
  • Picture of the artist another picture

Recently some text was added that I am not finding it possible to verify by an independent source (e.g. a website, newspaper or catalogue), so sadly it may need to go:

One of the twins Karen Whiteread gave birth to a beautiful, young redhead in 1992 named Amber. Ever since Rachel has been inspired by her beauty.The daughter of Karen Whiteread, has wonderful friends, named Jessica White, Chloe Smith and Ellie Sampson. Karen Whiteread did a piece of artwork called angels, which featured her daughter and Jessica.

BTW I wonder if the stairs at the Serpentine (one of her best IMHO) can be seen as a typical work, and be grouped with House, but perhaps less notable than the other works. --Cedderstk 13:18, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photos needed

This article - and K Foundation art award which I am working on - really need more photos, in particular of Ms Whiteread and "House". I wonder, also (and I appreciate it's a bit cheeky to ask here!) if anyone has any photos from the K Foundation art award presentation? --kingboyk 18:40, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

OK, I found a photo of House. I'd really like to get hold of 1 or 2 positive quotes about House too; this article links to some but they're not very enyclopedic links unfortunately. I need author/title/date/page number (or as much of that as possible). Thanks in advance for any help you can give. --kingboyk 19:53, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

Should be included together in one section. This format is confusing to follow and includes nore information than needed in the realm of the works of the artist. Perhaps I am wrong but would like to change.Annlanding (talk) 18:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)Annlanding

Well, I disagree. I worked damn hard on this thing and I made it the best I could. If you can link to an article about another artist you think gets it right, then I'd have a look and maybe reconsider. But I worked on this terribly hard. --bodnotbod (talk) 17:03, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pronounciation

How is "Whiteread" pronounced? Like "I will read" or like "I have read"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.10.30.160 (talk) 12:30, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Got it, it's read as in "I will read". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.96.63.249 (talk) 14:38, 13 March 2008 (UTC)