Awareness Post- Rachel Whiteread
- Oct 19, 2025
- 1 min read
Rachel Whiteread is a sculptor from England who works with casting. She started off casting smaller everyday objects and areas, such as hot water bottles. She then began large-scale sculpture with her piece Ghost (1990), where she filled a room of a Victorian house with concrete. From there, she continued her large-scale casting; her first public commission in New York, Water Tower (1998), was a clear resin cast of a rooftop water tower. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993, one of the UK's most publicized art awards.
Education:
Studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic (1982-85)
studied sculpture at Slade School of Art (1985-87)
Gallery and exhibition info:
Something I find interesting about Rachel Whiteread's work is how the casting preserves the world. Her sculptures are often not recreations of objects or places, but the space around them. The simple white color of the materials makes the texture and shape of the sculptures stand out. I have been considering casting for some of my own art, so it is interesting to see the scale Whiteread is able to get with her art
Source: Rachel Whiteread | Gagosian
Comments