Mark Wallinger

Installation art, Visual Artist

1959 –

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Who is Mark Wallinger?

Mark Wallinger is a British artist, best known for his sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Ecce Homo, and State Britain, a recreation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside parliament. He won the Turner Prize in 2007. In October 2010, he and 100 other leading artists signed an open letter to the Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt protesting against cutbacks in the arts - he created a new work, "Reckless", for the protest.

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Born
1959
Chigwell
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Goldsmiths College
  • Chelsea College of Art and Design
Lived in
  • Chigwell

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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